AUGUSTA, Ga. – The first ball was a Titleist 4 with a dot on it. The second ball was a Callaway HEX Black Tour with four dots on it.

The first was originally owned by Louis Oosthuizen only to wind up in the pocket of Wayne Mitchell, a New Zealander living in Allentown, Pa. who spent Sunday in the gallery of the Masters.

The second belonged to Phil Mickelson but ended up in the pocket of Carl Morton, who hails from the Augusta suburb of Martinez and was here working for the CBS broadcast.

Until Bubba Watson won the Masters on a dramatic, out of the woods, hooking wedge shot on the second playoff hole, they represented what could’ve been two of the most famous shots in the tournament’s history.

And they were golf balls that neither man who struck them wanted. And while the men who got them decided to do different things, neither actively entered the lucrative memorabilia market.

It began on the second hole, when Oosthuizen’s Titleist sat in the second fairway, 253 yards from the pin. The South African attacked it with his 4-iron. It flew through the air, splitting two bunkers and hitting the front edge of the green. It took one giant bounce and then began to roll, curving like a cup-seeking missile 28 yards until it went into the hole.

It gave Oosthuizen a lead in the tournament that he wouldn’t relinquish until the playoff. For a long time it looked like that shot would win him a green jacket. It was just the fourth albatross, or double eagle, in Masters history and the first on the second hole. They’ve held the tournament since 1934. As it went in, Oosthuizen stood in the fairway, lifted both arms in the air and then exchanged, with varying degrees of success, high-fives with his caddie.

When he reached the green, he pulled the Titleist out of the hole and flipped it into the gallery, where Mitchell, seated in the front row since 10:30 a.m. ET got it and pocketed it.

“My biggest fear was that I would drop it,” he told Yahoo! Sports. “I’m not a souvenir chaser. But there were about 100 people behind me who would have gone for it.”

One memorabilia company offered $20,000 for the ball on Twitter, although how serious that offer was is debatable. The ball certainly lost value when Oosthuizen failed to win the tournament.