First Billion-Dollar Athlete
 

Forbes magazine has announced that Tiger Woods has become the first athlete to make over 1 billion dollars in career earnings!!! It came after he earned 10 million for winning the FedEx Cup on Sunday. The only other athletes to come close are Michael Jordan who earned $800 million and Formula One driver Michael Schumacher at $700 million.

http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/29/tig...rts-tiger.html

Surprised it wasn't shaq

There goes Lebron's goal

i'm riiich biatch!

I always thought Jordan was earning the most, with his clothes and shoes

^ Tiger does the same shit, but he makes tens of millions after a tournament which he frequently does well in...

Thoese are sponsers, this is just from winnings/contracts in their sports.

R u sure? I'm pretty sure he didn't make 1 billion dollars just from golf, I think this is merely on how much he has made as and athlete, sponsors, endorsements, winnings, contracts and everything combined. I didn't read the link but I read on the pervious forbes that he makes about 100million a year and that includes everything from endorsements to winnings.

yup, everything

What the hell is he gonna do with all that money..thats an isane amount.

haha, read the title and immediately thought, wow good job tiger!

tiger deserves every penny..

fuckin amazing..

I sure as hell hope he got a pre-nup.

Woods is balling. Nike paid him a lot for endorsement deals, lucky guy.

he's not lucky, he's just good at what he do best

not only is he rich, he is the youngest athlete to make that much money

how can you compare MJ's wage and Tiger's wage?
they are 10-15 years apart. assuming inflation rate is about 2%-3% a year, the figure as of today would be pretty damn close!

normalize tiger's wage to jordan's time, or vice versa and compare.

1 billion fucking dollars, and he swings a club at a ball... fuck me upside down.

i thought schumacher or whatever his name is was the first billionaire athlete

They said Schumacher had $800+ million in 2006 and that's after giving away like $75million

I'm sure if Schumacher was still racing, he would've been first... Or really close!

+1!!

but...tiger woods is really talented in golf.

How old is Tiger?

The difference between Michael and Schumacher is that they are past their prime. Tiger can keep playing golf until he is a senior - and then he would still get endorsement for playing in the seniors tournaments!!!

Jordan quit playing when he was still in his prime though, and before the more outrageous wages


Schumacher could have kept going, hell if his neck wasn't fucked i bet he'd still be owning it up as a Massa replacement

Tiger Woods is a cheater..
How is getting laser eye surgery to get better then perfect eye sight any different then a baseball player taking roids?