September 30, 2009

Tiger Woods Becomes First Billion Dollar Athlete

ATLANTA - SEPTEMBER 23:  Tiger Woods hits a shot as his caddie Steve Williams look on during a practice round prior to the start of THE TOUR Championship at East Lake Golf Club on September 23, 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia.
According to Forbes.com, with Tiger's FedEx Cup title Sunday he becomes the first athlete to earn a billion dollars in his or her career. BAAALLLIINNN! Take it away Forbes:

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. Via Forbes.com

This was really inevitable. I mean if it didn't happen Sunday, it was gonna happen some time shortly there after. But fuck all that, I just need to know where I have to go to sign up for golfing lessons! Niggas trying to beat trillion-to-one odds of becoming rappers and shit, while people like Tiger have made more in his career than most people's top 5 combined. Props to Mr. Woods.

Damn, I need to figure out how to get in good with his beautiful niece Cheyenne or something!

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