Los Angeles - A billion dollars! This sum can not imagine a normal mortals. Written out, this figure is as follows: 1,000,000,000.
Are the equivalent of 627 million euros. Pro golfer Tiger Woods (32) will be 2011, the first athlete in history who has earned this insane amount.
Barely twelve years the great career of Eldrick Woods Tont began, of course, better known as Tiger Woods. Since then, he has 14 major golf tournaments and win this to make money without end.
The biggest chunk of his wealth of Californians but draws from its advertising contracts. For in prize money is the best golfer of all time was (only 83 million U.S. dollars converted to pocket 52 million euros). As an advertising medium he works for Nike, American Express and Gillette.
While there is still much richer people in the sport. Around the oligarch and Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, whose fortune according to Forbes is estimated at 23.5 billion. But in contrast with other mega-rich Woods has made his billion just through sport and the associated advertising revenue.
Tiger Woods is indeed the first sports billionaire, but also other sports stars raking in tons of coal. Thus, Forbes estimates the assets of Michael Schumacher at around 850 million U.S. dollars. The trade magazine EuroBusiness keep the Formula 1 world champion difficult even for Woods and richer than 950 million euros.
Even basketball legend Michael Jordan with 350 million and David Beckham, with its 250 million certainly do not have starving.
