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[dna4ever]

Sickaments! 1 billion dollars for playing golfhttp://blogs.golf.co...l#ixzz0SiPI3qMUIt's good to be Tiger Woods. Forbes.com is reporting that Woods is the first athlete to reach $1 billion in earnings, beating out Michael Jordan and Michael Schumacher.Woods earned more than $10.5 million in giant cardboard checks this year on the PGA Tour and added another $10 million last weekend by winning the FedEx Cup. According to Forbes, that little bonus was enough to push Woods over the $1 billion mark.Forbes has been tracking athlete earnings since before Tiger turned pro. Woods had earned a cumulative $895 million going into 2009, by our estimates, from prize money, appearance fees, endorsements, bonuses and his golf course design business. If you add his $10.5 million in 2009 prize money, the FedEx bonus and his take so far this year from his more than $100 million in annual off-the-course earnings, Woods' career earnings are now 10 figures.The article points out that only Woods's accountant truly knows if he's a billionaire, but one thing is certain: Tiger's money-making potential won't slow down anytime soon.The most stunning part is that Woods is only 33 years old--he might have 15 years of competitive golf left in him, and 30-plus years of designing courses. This is only the first billion for Woods.Woods has been the highest-paid American athlete for years, and the competition isn't even close. In this year's Fortunate 50, SI's annual ranking, Woods's estimated total earnings were nearly $100 million, far exceeding Phil Mickelson in second ($53 million) and LeBron James in third ($42.4 million). Amazingly, Woods made even more the year before, according to SI -- $128 million.

[BigDMcGee]

I'm shocked that Phil was number 2. I remember like 10 years ago people speculated that Tiger would be the first sports billionare.. but like in another 10-15 years or so. Jesus.

[king_tanner]

I'm suprised that Jordan hasn't got there yet.Tiger definitely deserves to be the highest paid player in all of sports, 1 bil seems overkill though lol.

[bigkg]

dna4ever, on Thursday, October 1st, 2009, 3:48 PM, said:

The most stunning part is that Woods is only 33 years old--he might have 15 years of competitive golf left in him, and 30-plus years of designing courses. This is only the first billion for Woods.

This part interested me. So I looked up how much he makes designing golf courses. And while I couldn't find an average number or anything like that, I did find that he was paid $25 million to design a course in Dubai.

[BigDMcGee]

king_tanner, on Thursday, October 1st, 2009, 3:19 PM, said:

I'm suprised that Jordan hasn't got there yet.Tiger definitely deserves to be the highest paid player in all of sports, 1 bil seems overkill though lol.

As much of a gambling degenerate as jordan is, I'm surprised he isn't broke.

[dna4ever]

BigDMcGee, on Thursday, October 1st, 2009, 3:39 PM, said:

As much of a gambling degenerate as jordan is, I'm surprised he isn't broke.

well he's not so bad that he has set himself up in Caesars Palace every day hocking $20 autographs ala Pete Rose style

[BigDMcGee]

dna4ever, on Thursday, October 1st, 2009, 4:02 PM, said:

well he's not so bad that he has set himself up in Caesars Palace every day hocking $20 autographs ala Pete Rose style

yeah, all I'm saying is he'd invested the money he gambled away into 5% annual funds, he'd be a billionare now.

[JoeyJoJo]

But the article isn't saying Tiger Woods is a billionaire (or even that Michael Jordan isn't), it's just saying that's total career earnings.

[dna4ever]

JoeyJoJo, on Thursday, October 1st, 2009, 4:10 PM, said:

But the article isn't saying Tiger Woods is a billionaire (or even that Michael Jordan isn't), it's just saying that's total career earnings.

yeah, he probably spent at least some of his earnings from the last 10 years by now

[fleung22]

Damn...a BILLION dollars. that means Tiger could be buying sports franchises.Imagine if he bought Detriot's baseball team. he could rename it from Detroit Tigers to Tiger's Detroit

[serge]

HE IS BACKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

[brvheart]

serge, on Tuesday, March 16th, 2010, 12:03 PM, said:

HE IS BACKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

http://www.breitbart...;show_article=1

[serge]

This maybe the highest rated golf event ever...I bet CBS is jumping for joy right now..A possible Masters without Tiger probably scared them to death and now this, a media circus.

[GeneralGeeWhiz]

yes! cant wait for the masters.i also heard that CBS stock rose over 3% after tiger announced he would play the masters.

[BaseJester]

I share Rogers Hornsby's sentiment here.

'Rogers Hornsby' said:

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

On the other hand, a guy who earns a billion dollars can buy a lot of whores, as Tiger has demonstrated.

[king_tanner]

I wonder if Tiger is a fan of South Park?

[bigkg]

The texts Tiger sent to one of his pornstars were leaked: http://deadspin.com/...r-sext-messagesSome highlights:"After i cum you better start sucking my cock to get it hard""Slap your face. Treat you like a dirty little whore. Put my cock in your ass and then shove it down your throat""Hold you down while i choke you and Fuck that ass that i own""Next time i see you, you better beg and if you don't do it right i will slap, spank, bite and fuck you till mercy""Have you ever had a golden shower done to you"

[brvheart]

http://www.vanityfai...ient-women.html

[Shark527]

If you had a billion, why even do endorsements anymore?Why do ANYTHING?, except all the plowing ho's part

[grocery_mony]

When hearing about Tigers neck injury I couldnt help but think of the curb episode where Larry says there are only 2 ways to injure your neck.