Tiger Woods is still the number one professional golfer in the world and riches athlete in America.
Last year, Tiger Woods is on the brink of losing everything. However, the talent and superiority to the game of golf makes him the best golfer in the world. It is also for the continuous trust of different companies he endorses that makes him number one on performance and earnings this year.
Scandal rocked his career causing him to make himself unavailable to play for almost a year. This cost him millions in endorsement. He was dropped by Gatorade, AT&T, and Accenture. Other remains and FedEx Cup gave him $10 million bonus to keep his spot at number one.
Fifty of the best athlete in America in all sporting discipline was listed as richest. Tiger Woods is the richest with $90,508,163 in total from his $20,508,163 salary/winnings and $70,000,000 on endorsement. He has the record of leading the money list in nine different seasons.
Eldrick Tont “Tiger” Woods is an American professional golfer. He was introduced to golf at the age of two by his father. In 1984, at the age of 8, he won the 9-10 boys’ event of the Junior World Golf Championships. He went to win this championships six times including four consecutive wins from 1988-1991.
He debuted in this sport as professional on August 1996. He has won 16 World Golf Championships in 11 years as golfer. Currently, he is the World number 1 in Golf. He is the youngest in history as the fastest to win 50 tournaments in tour.
His superiority to the game gave him this unbeatable record. At 24, he became the youngest golfer to achieve the Career Grand Slam. He won 71 on the PGA Tour and 38 European Tour which is third all time, two at Japan Golf Tour, one at Asian Tour, one at Tour of Australasia and 15 other championships. He is the second golfer after Jack Nicklaus to have achieved a career Grand Slam three times.