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Former Augusta National employee charged with theft, fraud for stealing Masters golf memorabilia
Two days after the 2024 Masters, a former employee of Augusta National Golf Club was charged with allegedly stealing millions of dollars of Masters memorabilia over a 13-year period.
According to the Chicago Tribune, Richard Brendan Globensky, 39, of Augusta was charged Tuesday by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago with stealing historic Masters memorabilia from the famed golf club from 2009 to 2022. He is accused of transporting the memorabilia across state lines to the Tampa, Fla. area.
According to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Illinois, Globensky is accused of allegedly transporting the items across state lines, “knowing [they] had been stolen, converted and taken by fraud.”
Masters and Augusta National memorabilia can sell for tens of thousands of dollars for the famed green jackets, trophies, Masters badges and signed memorabilia. The highest-selling items at Heritage Auctions were a 1937 Bobby Jones Green Jacket that sold for $310,700 in 2011 and a 1954 Masters trophy won by Sam Snead for $191,200 in 2013.
The items or type of memorabilia stolen has not been released by the court.
