Inside new billionaire Tiger Woods’ luxury life: besides golf winnings, he earns millions from endorsements with Nike and Tag Heuer, travelling in style in a Gulfstream private jet and superyacht
- Affairs led to an expensive divorce from Elin Nordegren in 2010, since when he has been with Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn, and now Erica Herman, manager of his restaurant
- Woods enjoys watching other sports, supporting the Las Vegas Raiders in NFL, Los Angeles Dodgers in baseball and his good friend, Rafael Nadal, in tennis
Golfer Tiger Woods has made more than US$1.4 billion since turning pro in 1996. More than US$122 million of that has come from on-course winnings making him No 1 on the all-time money list, by far.
He won US$4.6 million at the 2018 Tour Championship alone – US$1.6 million for winning the tournament itself and US$3 million for the win ensuring a second-place finish in the season-long FedEx Cup – one of his biggest paydays ever in golf.
But just how did he get there – and what does he spend his cash on?
From athlete to billionaire
But the real money comes from off the course. At his peak, in the late 2000s, Woods made something like US$100 million annually off the course. In 2016, he still earned more than US$45 million in endorsement deals and course design fees.
Despite barely playing in 2017, Woods was still the 16th highest-paid athlete in the world, according to Forbes, and had an estimated net worth of US$740 million in 2016.