Even though he didn’t win the Tour Championship event that closed the FedEx Cup, the $10 million that Tiger Woods picked up for finishing first in the overall competition was apparently enough to push him over the $1 billion mark for career earnings, according to Forbes.com, making him the first athlete to reach that threshold.
Woods had earned a cumulative $895 million going into 2009, Forbes estimated, from prize money, appearance fees, endorsements, bonuses, and his golf course design business. Adding what he earned on the course this year to his more than $100 million in annual off-the-course earnings, Forbes now figures that the 33-year-old now has career earnings with 10 figures and three commas.
Forbes notes that this is probably only the first billion for Woods, based on projected earnings from another 15 years of competitive golf and another 30-plus years of designing courses.
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