Sickaments! 1 billion dollars for playing golf

http://blogs.golf.com/presstent/2009/10/fo...l#ixzz0SiPI3qMU

It'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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

HE IS BACKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9...;show_article=1

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.

yes! cant wait for the masters.

i also heard that CBS stock rose over 3% after tiger announced he would play the masters.

I share Rogers Hornsby's sentiment here.



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

I wonder if Tiger is a fan of South Park?

The texts Tiger sent to one of his pornstars were leaked: http://deadspin.com/5496451/joslyn-james-d...r-sext-messages

Some 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"

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/201...ient-women.html

If you had a billion, why even do endorsements anymore?

Why do ANYTHING?, except all the plowing ho's part

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.

that is an awesome pic.

He's worth a billion dollars...... wow.... If I was Tiger Woods I woulda had a totally different press conference. It would go something like this......

"I’m Tiger Woods, but first and foremost I’m a man, I’m worth a billion dollars, not a million, a ****en billion, so **** Nike, **** Gatorade, **** Gillette, **** At& T, and **** my wife!, If she didn’t marry me, she’d be a high priced escort in Sweden right now. I’m Tiger Woods, I’m a man, and on a side note, **** golf too, I’m worth a billion dollars bitch! I’m Oprah rich, **** all ya’ll, and stay the **** out my business! Peace!"

Just put a $10 side bet with a friend of mine that Tiger would finish outside the top 10 in the US Open.

I really don't like this bet, but with the way he's been playing it's gonna be difficult to compete ... on the other hand it is Pebble Beach and he knows and loves this course.

Thoughts?

solid bet imo

Would be +EV with the books anyways ...

Top 10 Moneyline
Tiger Woods -175
Phil Mickelson -175
Lee Westwood -110
Ernie Els +225
Padraig Harrington +225
Rory McIlroy +175
Jim Furyk +225
Luke Donald +225

Doesn't the negative number mean that he is a favorite to make the top 10?

oh i totally read your OP wrong, thought you said wouldn't finish out of the top 10



Yeah, that is a horrible bet. Definitely going to be in the top 10.

it should be disclaimed that ANYTIME i say 'definitely' about anything related to an outcome of an event, its 99.9% wrong so nice bet

Woot?

These are all such +++EV for the bookies. It's pretty ridiculous that any golfer, including Tiger, gets you less than 1-1 on your bet.

Neither Phil nor Tiger managed even one birdie between them in round 1 ....

T1 | Shaun Micheel | -2 | 69
T1 | Paul Casey | -2 | 69
T1 | Brendon de Jonge | -2 | 69
T4 | Alex Cejka | -1 | 70
T4 | Ryo Ishikawa | -1 | 70
T4 | Rafael Cabrera Bello | -1 | 70
T4 | K.J. Choi | -1 | 70
T4 | Mike Weir | -1 | 70
T4 | Ian Poulter | -1 | 70
T10 | Graeme McDowell | E | 71
T10 | Dustin Johnson | E | 71
T10 | Luke Donald | E | 71
T10 | David Toms | E | 71
T14 | Jerry Kelly | 1 | 72
T14 | Kenny Perry | 1 | 72
T14 | Jason Allred | 1 | 72
T14 | Bo Van Pelt | 1 | 72
T14 | Soren Kjeldsen | 1 | 72
T14 | Zach Johnson | 1 | 72
T14 | Hiroyuki Fujita | 1 | 72
T14 | Jim Furyk | 1 | 72
T14 | Tim Clark | 1 | 72
T14 | Justin Leonard | 1 | 72
T14 | Scott Verplank | 1 | 72
T14 | Ricky Barnes | 1 | 72
T14 | Jason Dufner | 1 | 72
T14 | Ross McGowan | 1 | 72
T14 | Matt Bettencourt | 1 | 72
T29 | Pablo Martin | 2 | 73
T29 | Sergio Garcia | 2 | 73
T29 | Ernie Els | 2 | 73
T29 | Peter Hanson | 2 | 73
T29 | Miguel Jimenez | 2 | 73
T29 | Matthew Richardson | 2 | 73
T29 | Russell Henley | 2 | 73
T29 | Steve Marino | 2 | 73
T29 | Gregory Havret | 2 | 73
T29 | Toru Taniguchi | 2 | 73
T29 | Stuart Appleby | 2 | 73
T29 | Padraig Harrington | 2 | 73
T29 | Y.E. Yang | 2 | 73
T29 | David Frost | 2 | 73
T29 | Lucas Glover | 2 | 73
T29 | Craig Barlow | 2 | 73
T29 | Hugo Leon | 2 | 73
T29 | Kent Jones | 2 | 73
T47 | Steve Wheatcroft | 3 | 74
T47 | Gareth Maybin | 3 | 74
T47 | John Rollins | 3 | 74
T47 | Noh Seung-yul | 3 | 74
T47 | Tiger Woods | 3 | 74
T47 | Lee Westwood | 3 | 74
T47 | Vijay Singh | 3 | 74
T47 | Charl Schwartzel | 3 | 74
T47 | Fred Funk | 3 | 74
T47 | Martin Kaymer | 3 | 74
T47 | Ross Fisher | 3 | 74
T47 | Azuma Yano | 3 | 74
T47 | Erick Justesen | 3 | 74
T47 | Stephen Ames | 3 | 74
T47 | Rory Sabbatini | 3 | 74
T47 | Robert Allenby | 3 | 74
T47 | Matt Kuchar | 3 | 74
T47 | Trevor Immelman | 3 | 74
T47 | Thongchai Jaidee | 3 | 74
T66 | Morgan Hoffmann | 4 | 75
T66 | Jean-Francois Lucquin | 4 | 75
T66 | David Duval | 4 | 75
T66 | Steve Stricker | 4 | 75
T66 | Ryan Moore | 4 | 75
T66 | Davis Love III | 4 | 75
T66 | Rory McIlroy | 4 | 75
T66 | Oliver Wilson | 4 | 75
T66 | Brandt Snedeker | 4 | 75
T66 | Heath Slocum | 4 | 75
T66 | Scott Langley | 4 | 75
T66 | Jason Preeo | 4 | 75
T66 | Mikko Ilonen | 4 | 75
T66 | Charles Warren | 4 | 75
T66 | Edoardo Molinari | 4 | 75
T66 | Retief Goosen | 4 | 75
T66 | Angel Cabrera | 4 | 75
T66 | Phil Mickelson | 4 | 75

whoa, got one right, sorry about your luck, I'm usually pretty bad at betting ...


1 Graeme McDowell E 71 68 71 74 284 $1,350,000

2 Gregory Havret +1 73 71 69 72 285 $810,000

3 Ernie Els +2 73 68 72 73 286 $480,687

T4 Tiger Woods +3 74 72 66 75 287 $303,119

T4 Phil Mickelson +3 75 66 73 73 287 $303,119


Pretty sick that Tiger only had to shoot a 71/72 to win/tie the final round and boinked off a 75 after shooting a 72 and amazing 66 the previous two days.

After his 66 I thought for sure he was going to just win the thing ... but then the new tiger crept up and bit him. The guy can still play some impressive golf! I am calling it right now that he wins the British Open.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showb...vorce-deal.html

That's an awful lot of money going to his wife.

Just shows how much he must have to begin with.

First he has to give all that money to his wife now this!!! Oh man, he is going to be broke soon .....

July 21st, 2010 AP

NEW YORK - Tiger Woods' estimated endorsements for 2010 are worth $22 million less than last year, according to Sports Illustrated's annual analysis of the highest-earning American athletes.

Woods is still No. 1 on the list, as he has been for the rankings' seven years. But his estimated total annual earnings of more than $90 million are down 30 percent from nearly $128 million two years ago.



Poor guy, we should take up a collection or something to help him through this rough financial stretch

How is he gonna live on $90 million..??

Goes to show you the strength of the brand...He goes thru all that and still raking in the money.

What kind of mortgage would he be approved for with an annual salary of $90 million?

Around $350 to $400 million

Tiger is really out of sorts, I expect him to make a comeback next year, but we'll see.

How about that ruling on Dustin Johnson. Sucks to be him, but he should have read the rules. Apprently there was a sheet that went out telling them specifically about this type of thing. There really is no one to blame but himself. I really don't understand how people don't get that. They are saying that this is a bad call, but IMO it was a great call and he will learn from this and have many wins in his future! That guy can hit it a mile and he has a great short game.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/elin-n...ory?id=11473930