What Is Tiger Woods' Net Worth? How the Controversial Professional Golfer Became a Billionaire

Tiger Woods ’ passion for golf sure paid off!

According to Forbes , the athlete is worth an estimated $1.3 billion.

The 48-year-old began playing golf professionally at age 20 and made most of his cash through winning major tournaments .

The father-of-two collected about $1.8 billion during his pro golf career, including a PGA Tour record of $121 million in prize money.

In 2022, Woods became a billionaire, making him the second sports player to reach this distinction alongside LeBron James .

Woods reached this financial milestone despite turning down a "mind-blowingly enormous" offer from the upstart LIV Golf tour, which attempted to compete with the PGA Tour before the companies merged.

According to LIV CEO Greg Norman , the offer was in the "high nine digits."

In addition to his tournament earnings, Woods invested in two homes on Jupiter Island, Fla., a golf course design business and a high-end mini-golf chain .

In 2022, Woods and fellow golf star Rory McIlroy revealed they founded TMRW Sports, a tech-focused venture with plans to launch a new golf league called TGL.

The star also teamed up with Justin Timberlake and British billionaire Joe Lewis for Nexxus, a luxury real estate company.

Though Woods made a killing throughout his career, he also became quite the controversial sportsman following his bombshell infidelity scandal in 2009.

As OK! previously reported, the celeb cheated on his then-wife Elin Nordegren with several women, including Rachel Uchitel , who recently spoke about how the experience still haunts her all these years later.

In a new interview, the golfer's former mistress shared, “When you are in a conversation piece that big that everyone wants to talk about, it's going to go to your grave.”

The 49-year-old expressed how the highly publicized incident altered her ability to “ trust .”

“Well, it's, it's affected my relationships, I have a very small world , I keep it that way. I don't really trust a lot of people because what I've been through is something that a lot of people cannot understand,” she stated.

Uchitel continued: “Listen, it's not like I don't know what people think of me. But I've spent the better part of 15 years trying to do something else that overshadows it.”

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“Clearly, that's a really hard thing to come back as the other woman. You don't get a lot of grace in that,” she continued. “Obviously, my past is the reason that my name is in the paper, right? So that opens doors for me.”