Golfer's $5 thrift-store jacket sells for $139,349

A golfer was browsing through a Toronto thrift store when he came across a green jacket. The item looked interesting, and he knew this was an unusual find. It was priced at $5, so he bought it anyway.More than two decades later, the same jacket was sold for $139,349 at auction after Augusta National Golf Club confirmed that it was an authentic club jacket dating to the 1950s, Global News reported.The jacket was later known as a ‘thrift-store Masters jacket’, an unusual piece of golf memorabilia offered by Green Jacket Auctions in 2017.A $5 findAn avid golfer and a member of the Canadian media discovered the jacket while browsing through a Toronto second-hand shop in 1994. He recognised the Augusta National branding and decided to buy it. He paid just $5 for the jacket, unaware of just how valuable it could eventually become. At the time, the jacket had no name, so its history remained unclear. But a tag on the jacket indicated that it dated to the 1950s. The jacket was later sold to a British golf journalist, who kept it for years before it eventually appeared at auction.Augusta National identifies the jacketThe green jacket turned out to be an authentic Augusta National club jacke...