Tiger joins LeBron, Jordan on sport very rich person list
Tiger Woods, a 15-time significant golf champion, has joined NBA symbols Michael Jordan and LeBron James as competitors with a total assets of $1 billion, Forbes magazine covered Friday.
Woods, getting back in the game at age 46 from extreme leg wounds experienced in a February 2021 auto collision, has made about $1.7 billion in prize cash, supports and agreements over his 27-year vocation, Forbes revealed.
The income update said that was the most cash of any competitor the magazine has followed, with under 10% of incomes for Woods coming from his rewards.
Jordan, who won six NBA crowns during the 1990s with the Chicago Bulls, was the primary athlete to arrive at the achievement, his underwriting pitchman job and Jumpman logo items setting guidelines for competitors.
Los Angeles Lakers playmaker James, a four-time NBA champion and four-time NBA Most Valuable Player, crossed the $1 billion figure barely a week ago, as per the magazine, which said he made $121.1 million gross in the previous year.
Woods, whose 82 profession US PGA Tour triumphs is level with Sam Snead for the untouched record, finished a 14-month injury cutback in April at the Masters, getting it done in a fightback exertion where just strolling 72 openings at bumpy Augusta National was viewed as a significant exertion.
Woods got it done last month at the PGA Championship however pulled out before the last round subsequent to limping his direction over Southern Hills in the third round.
While he will skirt the following week's US Open, Woods intends to play in the following month's British Open at St. Andrews.
Greg Norman, magistrate of the new Saudi-upheld LIV Golf Invitational Series, said Woods was contributed a deal the "high nine digits" to join the upstart visit, however Woods said at the PGA Championship he favors the PGA, based upon the tradition of legends like Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus.
Notwithstanding support pay, Woods possesses occasion organizing and course configuration organizations.
Woods made $68 million in off base pay throughout the course of recent months, Forbes announced, noticing that figure alone would rank him fourteenth on the worldwide world competitor pay list.