How the ball Rory McIlroy won the British Open with ended up for auction

The ball was sunk and immediately thrown into the crowd by the Irish man, but it's been found and now it's up for auction.

Millions saw McIlroy thrown the ball into the crowd, but a company who specializes in golf memorabilia auctions immediately took to Twitter to ask who got the ball. The power of social media found that the owner of said ball was a  Leeds man called Lee Horner. The auction company ended up buying the ball from Mr Horner and have now placed it on their site available for bids. The current bid stands at $3,137.00 with another 12 days of bidding left. Here is the original tweet sent out by the company just after McIlroy threw it :

Who caught that ball Rory McIlroy threw after holing out on 18? We'll pay $10,000 for it — GreenJacketAuctions (@BidGreenJacket) July 20, 2014

  The lucky man who caught the ball was only too happy to get in contact with them:

@BidGreenJacket Hi I am the fan that caught the golf ball in question. and have the golf ball — Exhibit House (@Exhibit_House) July 25, 2014

He went to authenticate the ball:

@BidGreenJacket this is a picture of me out side the pavilion with the ball pic.twitter.com/Q4Oyob8nJ8 — Exhibit House (@Exhibit_House) July 26, 2014

He pretty much nailed it when he posted this:

@BidGreenJacket this is a picture of me taken off the bbc tv footage with the ball pic.twitter.com/rnArFhjlI9 — Exhibit House (@Exhibit_House) July 26, 2014

I wonder if Rory would be tempted to bid for his own ball? Anyway, if you fancy bidding for it, just click here.