Golf

A set of 23 golf clubs, each used by a former British Open champion, sold for $1.04 million. Auctioneers at Sotheby’s said the woods and irons belonging to winners between 1860 and 1930 went to an unnamed British company.

The clubs were collected over a century by Willie Auchterlonie, who won the Open in 1893, and his son Laurie while they were professionals and club makers at the Royal and Ancient Club of St. Andrews in Scotland. They asked each winner for one of his clubs.

The clubs range from a long-nosed driver used by Willie Park, winner of the first Open in 1860, to a hickory-shafted putter used by Bobby Jones, who won three times between 1926 and 1930.