Tiger Woods Net Worth

What is Tiger Woods's net worth and career earnings?

Tiger Woods is an American professional golfer who has a net worth of $1.3 billion. Since turning pro in 1996, Tiger's career earnings top $2 billion. Roughly 90% of this career earnings have come from endorsements. His major endorsement partners have included Nike, Buick, Titleist, American Express, and Rolex. He is the highest-earning golfer of all time and was the highest-earning celebrity on the planet for many years.

Had Tiger never gone through his 2009 scandal and career fallout, which resulted in a $100 million divorce settlement and roughly the same lost from endorsement deals, Tiger likely would have become a billionaire in 2021. By our count, he became a billionaire for the first time in 2025. Here is a year-by-year history of Tiger's net worth, starting at $10,000 in 1995, climbing up to $1.3 billion today:

Tiger Woods Career Earnings Year By Year

Since turning professional in 1996, Tiger Woods has earned an average of $66,681,415.77 per year. His highest-earning year was 2007, during which he brought in a total of $122,702,706. That record-breaking 2007 season was a historic peak for several reasons:

• On-Course Dominance: He earned a career-high $22.9 million in prize money, following a season that included 7 PGA Tour wins (including the PGA Championship) and the inaugural FedEx Cup title.
• Endorsement Peak: His "Off-Course" earnings reached nearly $100 million ($99.8 million) as he was the primary face of global brands like Nike, Buick, and Gatorade at the height of his career.

Based on the comprehensive career data compiled through 2025, here is the percentage breakdown of Tiger Woods' $2 billion in total career earnings:

• Off-Course (Endorsements, Business, & Equity): ~89.5% (roughly $1.79 billion)
• On-Course (Tournament Winnings & PGA PIP): ~10.5% (roughly $209 million)

Endorsement Deals

Outside of tournament winnings, Tiger Woods built one of the most lucrative endorsement portfolios in sports history. Over the course of his career, he generated well over $1.6 billion off the course, with sponsorships accounting for more than 90% of his total lifetime earnings.

From the moment he turned professional in August 1996, Woods was treated less like a rookie athlete and more like a global corporate asset. Within months, he signed a series of groundbreaking deals that immediately redefined what a golfer could earn.

His early endorsement partners included Nike, Titleist, and American Express, with additional early relationships formed with Rolex and Electronic Arts. By 1997, just months after winning The Masters, Woods had already reached $100 million in career earnings.

As his dominance grew, Woods' endorsement machine scaled into something unprecedented, generating roughly $100 million per year at its peak. Major global brands aligned themselves with his image, often building entire campaigns around him.

That empire suffered a dramatic collapse in 2009 following his personal scandal. Several key sponsors walked away, costing him tens of millions in annual income. However, core partners like Nike and Electronic Arts stayed, providing a financial foundation during his rebuild.

In the years that followed, Woods gradually reconstructed his endorsement portfolio, adding new global partners while also shifting toward long-term equity and ownership plays.

Notable endorsement partners over his career include:

• Nike
• Titleist
• American Express
• Rolex
• Electronic Arts
• Buick
• Accenture
• Gillette
• TAG Heuer
• Gatorade
• AT&T
• Monster Energy
• Hero MotoCorp
• Kowa
• Bridgestone
• TaylorMade
• 2K Sports
• Insperity

Nike Deals

Tiger Woods' partnership with Nike is widely considered the most successful endorsement deal in sports history, spanning 27 years and generating an estimated $700 million in total earnings.

The relationship began in 1996 with a groundbreaking 5-year, $40 million deal signed just days after Woods turned professional. At the time, it was one of the largest endorsement contracts ever given to an unproven athlete.

After winning The Masters in 1997, Woods' global appeal skyrocketed, and Nike rapidly built its golf division around him. Over the next decade, the partnership expanded through a series of increasingly massive extensions that tracked directly with his dominance on the course.

Key Nike contracts and milestones include:

• 1996: 5-year, $40 million rookie deal signed immediately after turning pro
• 2000: 5-year, $100 million extension ($20 million per year)
• 2005: 8-year, $320 million extension during peak dominance
• 2013: 10-year, $200 million final contract
• Total earnings: Approximately $700 million over 27 years

During this period, Nike didn't just sponsor Woods. It built entire product lines around him, including golf apparel, shoes, and even clubs and balls specifically designed for his game. His influence helped Nike become a dominant force in golf, a sport it had previously struggled to penetrate.

Even during the fallout from his 2009 scandal, Nike stood by Woods, a decision that proved highly lucrative as he rebuilt his career and brand value over the following decade.

The partnership officially ended on January 8, 2024, when both sides announced they were parting ways after nearly three decades.

Rather than signing another traditional endorsement deal, Woods pivoted strategically. In partnership with TaylorMade, he launched his own apparel brand, Sun Day Red, marking a shift from being a paid spokesperson to a brand owner with long-term equity upside.

In many ways, Woods' Nike deal defined the modern era of athlete endorsements. Its conclusion signaled something even more important: Tiger Woods is no longer just endorsing brands. He is building them.

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Early Life

Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods was born on December 30, 1975, in Cypress, California, to Earl and Tida Woods. He is their only child. He has two half-brothers, Earl Jr. and Kevin, and a half-sister, Royce, from his father's first marriage.

Tiger's mother is originally from Thailand. Tiger has called his ethnicity Cablinasian — as in Caucasian, Black, American Indian, and Asian. He was nicknamed Tiger in honor of his father's friend, Colonel Vuong Dang Phong, who was also known as Tiger. Woods grew up in Orange County, California. His father, Earl Woods, introduced him to golf before he turned two years old. Earl was a single-digit handicap amateur golfer. He was also one of the first African-American college baseball players at Kansas State University.

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Amateur and College Career

In 1978, during a television appearance on "The Mike Douglas Show," Tiger putted against comedian Bob Hope. At age three, he shot a 48 over nine holes. At age five, he appeared in "Golf Digest" and on ABC's "That's Incredible!"  Tiger won the Under Age 10 section of the Drive, Pitch, and Putt competition, held at the Navy Golf Course in Cypress, California, when he was six years old. When he was eight, he won the 9–10 boys' event, the youngest age group available, at the Junior World Golf Championships. He first broke 80 that same year. Tiger won the Junior World Championships six times, including four consecutive years from 1988 to 1991.

Woods first defeated his father when he was 11, and Earl was trying his best to win that game. Earl lost to Tiger every time from then on.  Woods was a 15-year-old student at Western High School in Anaheim when he became the youngest U.S. Junior Amateur champion, a record that stood until 2010. He was named Southern California Amateur Player of the Year in 1990 and 1991. He was the 1991 "Golf Digest" Junior Amateur Player of the Year. In 1992, Woods became the first two-time winner of the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship when he successfully defended his title. That same year, he played in the Nissan Los Angeles Open, his first PGA Tour event. He was named the 1992 "Golf Digest" Amateur Player of the Year, the Golf World Player of the Year, and the "Golfweek" National Amateur of the Year.

The following year, Woods won his third consecutive U.S. Junior Amateur Championship; he remains the event's only three-time winner. In 1994, he became the youngest winner of the U.S. Amateur Championship, a record he held until 2008. He was a member of the winning American team at the 1994 Eisenhower Trophy World Amateur Golf Team Championships. Woods graduated from high school in 1994 and was voted "Most Likely to Succeed" among the graduating class.

Woods was heavily recruited by the biggest college golf schools. He chose to attend school at Stanford University, the then reigning 1994 NCAA champions. He enrolled at Stanford in the fall of 1994 and won his first collegiate event, the 40th Annual William H. Tucker Invitational, that September. In 1995, he successfully defended his U.S. Amateur title at the Newport Country Club in Rhode Island and was voted Pac-10 Player of the Year, NCAA First Team All-American, and Stanford's Male Freshman of the Year (an award that encompasses all sports).

At age 19, Woods participated in his first PGA Tour major, the 1995 Masters, and tied for 41st as the only amateur to make the cut; two years later, he would win the tournament by 12 strokes. At age 20 in 1996, he became the first golfer to win three consecutive U.S. Amateur titles and the NCAA individual golf championship. He left college after two years to turn professional in golf.

Professional Career

Woods turned pro in August 1996 at age 20 and immediately signed advertising deals with Nike and Titleist that ranked as the most lucrative endorsement contracts in golf history at that time. Woods was named "Sports Illustrated's" 1996 Sportsman of the Year and PGA Tour Rookie of the Year. On April 13, 1997, he won his first major, the Masters, which he won by 12 strokes in a record-breaking performance and became the tournament's youngest winner at age 21. Two months later, he set the record for the fastest ascent to No. 1 in the Official World Golf Rankings.  After a lackluster 1998, Woods finished the 1999 season with eight wins, including the PGA Championship.

Woods was the dominant force in golf from 2000 to 2010. He was the top-ranked golfer in the world from August 1999 to September 2004 (264 weeks) and again from June 2005 to October 2010 (281 weeks). During this time, he won 13 of golf's major championships.

The next decade of Woods' career was marked by comebacks from personal problems and injuries. Woods fell to number 58 in the world rankings in November 2011 before ascending again to the No.1 ranking between March 2013 and May 2014. However, injuries led him to undergo four back surgeries between 2014 and 2017. Woods competed in only one tournament between August 2015 and January 2018, and he dropped off the list of the world's top 1,000 golfers. On his return to regular competition, Woods steadily progressed to the top of the game, winning his first tournament in five years at the Tour Championship in September 2018 and his first major in 11 years at the 2019 Masters. In 2022, Woods returned to play in his first professional tournament since his 2021 car crash, participating in the Masters Tournament. He made the cut and finished 47th at 13-over par, 23 shots behind the winner, Scottie Scheffler.

Woods has held several golf records. He has been the number one player in the world for the most consecutive weeks and the greatest total number of weeks of any golfer in history. He has been awarded PGA Player of the Year a record 11 times and has won the Byron Nelson Award for lowest adjusted scoring average a record eight times. Woods has the record of leading the money list in ten different seasons. He has won 15 professional major golf championships and 82 PGA Tour events. Woods leads all active golfers in career major wins and career PGA Tour wins. He is the youngest player to achieve the career Grand Slam and the second golfer (after Jack Nicklaus) to have achieved a career Grand Slam three times. Woods has won 18 World Golf Championships. He was also part of the American winning team for the 1999 Ryder Cup. In May 2019, Woods was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the fourth golfer to receive the honor.

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Personal Life

Woods met Elin Nordegren, a Swedish former model and daughter of former minister of migration Barbro Holmberg and radio journalist Thomas Nordegren, during The Open Championship in 2001. Swedish golfer Jesper Parnevik employed her as an au pair. They got engaged in November 2003 and married on October 5, 2004, at the Sandy Lane resort in Barbados. They lived at Isleworth, a community in Windermere, a suburb of Orlando, Florida. Woods and Nordegren's first child was a girl born in 2007, whom they named Sam Alexis Woods. Woods chose the name because his father had always called him Sam. Their son, Charlie Axel Woods, was born in 2009.

He took a self-imposed hiatus from professional golf from December 2009 to early April 2010 in an attempt to resolve marital issues with his then-wife, Elin. Woods admitted to multiple infidelities, and the couple divorced on August 23, 2010.

On March 18, 2013, Woods announced that he and Olympic gold medal skier Lindsey Vonn were dating. They split up in May 2015. From November 2016 to August 2017, Woods was in a relationship with stylist Kristin Smith. Woods announced in November 2017 that he was in a relationship with restaurant manager Erica Herman, following speculation about their relationship that began the month prior. But in 2023, she filed a suit against Woods in relation to a non-disclosure agreement, claiming she was owed $30 million after Woods' trust's employees locked her out of their residence and removed her personal belongings.

In March 2025, it was rumored that Tiger was dating Vanessa Trump, the heiress to the Rao's pasta sauce fortune and the ex-wife of Donald Trump Jr.

Driving Accidents

2017 DUI Arrest

On May 29, 2017, Tiger Woods was arrested near his home on Jupiter Island, Florida, after officers from the Jupiter Police Department found him asleep behind the wheel of a running vehicle that was stopped in a traffic lane at approximately 3:00 a.m. Woods later explained that he had taken several prescription medications and did not understand how their combined effects would impair him.

He subsequently entered a diversion program for first-time DUI offenders. In October 2017, Woods pleaded guilty to reckless driving, avoiding a DUI conviction. He was sentenced to 12 months of probation, fined $250, and ordered to complete 50 hours of community service along with regular drug testing. As part of the agreement, he was prohibited from consuming alcohol, with the threat of jail time for any violation.

2021 Rollover Crash

In February 2021, Woods was involved in a life-threatening single-vehicle crash while driving on Hawthorne Boulevard in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. His SUV left the roadway at high speed, struck multiple objects, and rolled over. Investigators later determined he had been traveling at more than 80 mph at the time of the accident.

The crash resulted in catastrophic injuries to his right leg, including multiple fractures that required extensive emergency surgery. At one point, there were serious concerns about whether amputation might be necessary. The incident marked a major turning point in Woods's career, leading to a long and uncertain rehabilitation process.

2026 Florida Crash

On March 27, 2026, Tiger Woods was involved in a serious car accident near his longtime home on Jupiter Island, Florida. According to law enforcement, Woods was driving a Range Rover at a high rate of speed on a two-lane road when he clipped another vehicle that was turning into a driveway, causing his SUV to flip onto its side.

The crash occurred in the early afternoon and involved at least two vehicles. Eyewitnesses reported that Woods was conscious at the scene and did not appear to have suffered life-threatening injuries. Emergency responders confirmed that no individuals involved in the accident required transport to a hospital.

Authorities later announced that Woods was arrested on suspicion of DUI in connection with the crash. Law enforcement officials also stated that he refused to submit to a chemical test following the incident.

The accident marked another serious setback in a series of health and personal challenges for Woods, coming after his 2021 crash that resulted in major leg injuries and multiple surgeries, as well as a ruptured Achilles tendon sustained in 2025.

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Tiger Woods Net Worth – How It Breaks Down

Tiger's first revenue comes from winning tournaments and endorsing products. Since turning pro in 1996, Tiger has earned $118 million on the golf course (including the $2.07 million he won at the 2019 Masters). That amounts to 7.6% of his total career earnings to date. As with similarly dominant athletes like Michael Jordan and LeBron James, the bulk of Tiger's fortune comes thanks to endorsements. Roughly 92.4% of his career earnings, around $1.6 billion, are from endorsing brands such as Nike, Gatorade, American Express, Asahi, General Mills (Wheaties), Golf Digest, Rolex, Gillette, Accenture, Tag Heuer, AT&T, EA Sports, NetJets, Upper Deck, TLC Laser Eye Centers, and Buick.

Gatorade developed a custom-branded drink for Woods called "Gatorade Tiger." The Gatorade deal alone was worth $100 million over five years. At one time, Tiger Woods earned $20 million per year to endorse Gillette along with fellow superstar athletes Roger Federer and Thierry Henry. Tiger commands $10 million to design golf courses worldwide and can earn as much as $1.5 million just to show up to a golf tournament.

Real Estate and Other Assets

In the wake of his separation and divorce from Elin, Tiger constructed a massive oceanfront new estate in Jupiter, Florida, on 12 acres. At the time of its completion, the home was estimated to be worth $60 million. Today, the property could be worth $75 to $100 million. The property features a practice golf course (naturally), an oxygen therapy room, and at least four swimming pools. The sprawling compound has a lap pool, a dive pool, a children's pool, a reflection pool, and a water fountain.

• Tiger owns a $25 million yacht named "Privacy." He sometimes sleeps on the yacht during tournaments that are near water.
• His PGA Tour pension plan is worth at least $20 million.
• He owns a $54 million Gulfstream G550 private jet. The only time Tiger has flown commercially in the last 15 years was in January 2017, when he traveled from Los Angeles to Dubai.
• The previously mentioned 12-acre ocean-front property in Jupiter, Florida, is worth at least $75 million
• In the wake of the 2009 financial crisis and his career slowdown, Tiger launched a course design business. He has designed courses worldwide with plenty of work on his plate.

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Marriage And Divorce Settlement With Elin Nordegren

Tiger Woods married Elin Nordegren in 2004. Woods and Nordegren's first child, a daughter named Sam Alexis Woods, was born in 2007, and their son, Charlie Axel Woods, was born in 2009. An infidelity scandal involving Tiger rocked the couple in 2009 and eventually led to the end of their marriage. With the controversy surrounding Tiger's divorce from Elin Nordegren, his game and his relationships with sponsors have suffered, costing him millions in potential earnings. He also paid Elin $100 million worth of assets, including cash and real estate.

Accolades

Tiger's career accolades include:

• 15 professional major tournaments
• 82 PGA Tour wins
• 41 European tour wins
• Five Masters wins
• He has been ranked #1 for more consecutive weeks than any other player
• He has the lowest scoring average of all time
• He has been crowned PGA Player of the Year 11 times
• Inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2021

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