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Pro golfer reveals that the trophy for Michael Jordan's private golf tournament is a $4,000 bottle of his own tequila

Sep 1, 2023, 22:50 IST
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Michael Jordan.Stan Badz/PGA TOUR
  • The ultra-competitive Michael Jordan now spends a lot of time at his own private golf course.
  • Jordan won his own members' tournament while partnered with PGA pro Keegan Bradley.
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Michael Jordan has kept a low profile since retiring as the greatest basketball player of all time. But every now and again, we get a little glimpse inside his extravagant life as the wealthiest athlete ever.

We know that Jordan is still ultra-competitive in retirement. We know he has become increasingly philanthropic with his billions. We know he loves smoking cigars. We also know he loves playing golf and drinking his own tequila brand, Cincoro.

Those last two items have now overlapped during the members' tournament at Jordan's own private golf course.

Like Jordan himself, the Grove XXIII golf club in Hobe Sound, Florida, is top secret. However, lucky for us, people who are members or get to play the course nicknamed "Slaughterhouse XXIII" like to talk about the experience, most likely to MJ's chagrin.

Michael Jordan plays golf.AP Photo/Brad Horn

The latest nugget about the course comes from PGA Tour golfer and 2011 PGA Championship winner Keegan Bradley.

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During the recent Tour Championship, Bradley gave the Golf Channel a tour of his office and all the memorabilia he keeps there. One of the items he showed off was the "trophy" he won as Jordan's partner for finishing first in the Grove XXIII members' tournament — a bottle of tequila.

But it was not just any bottle. It is a 1.75-liter bottle of Jordan's Cincoro Extra Añejo tequila in a special case with several glasses.

A cursory search online shows that the larger bottle typically has a retail price of approximately $4,000. The more typical 750 ml size goes for about $1,500 per bottle.

Bradley did not say when he won the trophy. However, a list of names participating in the 2021 tournament was leaked that year, and Bradley was listed as Jordan's playing partner.

That year's tournament would have made some PGA events envious. Other pro golfers in the tourney that year were Rickie Fowler, Justin Thomas, Rory McIlroy, and Dustin Johnson.

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This is not the first time that MJ's tequila took on a starring role.

In 2020, during ESPN's "The Last Dance" docuseries about the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls, Jordan was often seen with a glass of Cincoro tequila during his sit-down interviews with the producers.

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