{"id":1118220,"date":"2022-06-11T12:55:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T12:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/11\/tiger-woods-joins-michael-jordan-lebron-james-in-billionaire-club-forbes-reports\/"},"modified":"2022-06-11T12:55:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T12:55:34","slug":"tiger-woods-joins-michael-jordan-lebron-james-in-billionaire-club-forbes-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/11\/tiger-woods-joins-michael-jordan-lebron-james-in-billionaire-club-forbes-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods Joins Michael Jordan, Lebron James In Billionaire Club, Forbes Reports |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Tiger Woods has joined Michael Jordan and LeBron James in a select group of elite athletes with a net worth of at least $1 billion, business magazine Forbes reported.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-times major winner, who returned to competition at the Masters in April 14 months after nearly losing his right leg in a car crash, has made over $1.7 billion in prize money, endorsements and other ventures, according to Forbes.<\/p>\n<p>Woods is tied with Sam Snead for the most wins on the PGA Tour with 82, but Forbes said his winnings from golf account for less than 10% of his career earnings, with the bulk of his net worth attributed to endorsements with brands like Nike and Rolex.<\/p>\n<p>The 46-year-old has achieved billionaire status despite not being involved in the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman told the Washington Post that Woods had turned down an offer that was &#8220;mind-blowingly enormous&#8221; in the high nine figures.<\/p>\n<p>Six-times NBA champion Jordan was the first athlete to reach the milestone, and was joined by four-times NBA champion LeBron James just last week after the magazine estimated the Los Angeles Lakers player&#8217;s worth at $1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: REUTERS<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\">Disclaimer<\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of .  accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of content. Please report any inappropriate content to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Featured Video\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wB2-NHndouE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Fight Against Sim Card Registration Is Unending- Hon. Ras Mubarak Cautions Gov&#039;t\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB2-NHndouE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiger Woods has joined Michael Jordan and LeBron James in a select group of elite athletes with a net worth of at least $1 billion, business magazine Forbes reported. The 15-times major winner, who returned to competition at the Masters in April 14 months after nearly losing his right leg in a car crash, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1118222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2616,1665,4414,901,658,2762,15990,511,5182,5897,5898],"class_list":["post-1118220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-billionaire","tag-club","tag-forbes","tag-james","tag-joins","tag-jordan","tag-lebron","tag-michael","tag-reports","tag-tiger","tag-woods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}