Tiger Woods joins Michael Jordan and LeBron James in the billionaire’s club
The golfer is the second active athlete to reach the billion dollars
According to Forbes, Tiger Woods joins Michael Jordan and LeBron James as the only athletes with a billion-dollar net worth.
Forbes reported that the golfer reacher $1 billion with his golf earnings, endorsements, and additional businesses.
However, less than 10% of Tiger's earnings come from golf tournaments.
Tiger Woods generated a vast fortune from endorsements with brands like Nike, Gatorade, Rolex, and TaylorMade.
Forbes listed Tiger Woods as the athlete who earned more money during the decade.
Tiger Woods made investments in real estate. He has a $54 million mansion at Juniper Island, Vermont.
During his golf career, Tiger Woods won 15 majors, he partnered with a special purpose acquisition company and Justin Timberlake in Nexus Luxury Collection.
Woods and LeBron James are the only billionaire active athletes.
According to multiple reports, the organizers of LIV's Golf Tournament offered Tiger Woods a nine-digit figure to participate.
Greg Norman, CEO of LIV Golf Investments, claimed that the Saudi-backed league trying to rival the PGA Tour made a "mind-blowingly enormous" offer to Woods.
"We're talking about high nine digits," Norman said.
Tiger Woods quit the PGA Championship after the worst performance of his career.
Woods signed a 9-over 79, 10 strokes than his second-round score. It was the worst performance of Tiger's career besides shooting an 81 in the third round of 2002 Open at Muirfield.
"I just didn't play well. I didn't hit the ball very well and got off to not the start I needed to get off to," Woods mentioned.
"I thought I hit a good tee shot down 2 and ended up in the water, and just never really got any kind of momentum on my side."
