A rare gold medal, won by the great British golfer Sir Henry Cotton at the 1937 Open Golf Championship in Carnoustie sold for £39,600 today (13 July 2007) at Bonhams in Edinburgh. Medals of this kind are rarely seen at auction, and it is particularly timely that this one should be sold as the Open returns to Carnoustie for the first time since 1999.
Before the sale, the medal had been expected to fetch £25,000-30,000.

Posted: 07|15|07 at 9:23 am. Filed under: UK News.