Tiger Woods Would Be 80th On The Career Money List Just In Donated Foundation Event Winnings
Doug Ferguson reports that Tiger Woods propped up his 14-year-old World Challenge with a $4 million donation to keep the event going this year as no title sponsor was found before Northwestern Mutual became a presenting sponsor.
Only last year was it revealed that Woods also donates his prize money from every tournament that benefits the foundation - the AT&T National, which began in 2007, and the Deutsche Bank Championship, which began in 2003 and became a FedEx Cup playoff event in 2007. That total now stands at $14.2 million.
So for fun, with his Foundation receiving his winnings, that $14.2 million would place the Foundation 80th on the career money list, behind Greg Norman ($14.4 million), job creator Paul Azinger ($14.4), Jay Haas ($14.4) and just ahead of Mark O'Meara ($14.1) and Bill Haas ($14.1).
Tack on the $4 million he paid to keep the World Challenge this week, his $18.2 would put them 46th, between Tim Herron and Jeff Sluman in career money. (And yes, I'm well aware the World Challenge is unofficial money.)
As for this year, Woods is five back of Graeme McDowell heading into the 2012 final round. Coverage begins at noon PT on NBC.
The third round highlights:
Sunday, December 2, 2012 at 12:08 AM
Reader Comments (15)
"Steve Stricker was at the pro-am dinner and said he "got teary-eyed" when Perez spoke, which is not alarming. Stricker once donated $100,000 of his earnings at the World Challenge to the foundation, though he was not aware how much Woods paid this year for operating costs. Nor was he surprised.
"It shows what this event means to him," Stricker said. "There's a lot of things Tiger does that people don't know about." "
Some pros call a presser when they give any donation...like _____.
It would be easy for Woods to walk away, still seen as a hero for his prior commitmens to he foundation, but he seems to be genuinely interested in its continued success and public awareness.
As to the ''write off''- someone always says that anytime anyone makes any donation, and I say to the 'write off angle'' so what? Good for both sides. People are being helped. It is a far better use than our tax dollars being spent on 2 billion dollar airplanes, and giving pallets of money to Iraqis.
That would be a snide comment.
Ghillie, betcha Tiger feels real good about it, and betcha Graeme is appreciative in his own right....find the silver lining...you'll be happier if you do.
@Stanley ---- "no snide comments" you must be new. Snide comments are the norm, except when discussing golf writers and Kiawah bus travel times.
DTF is right , the Tour does not want any TV discussion about the fact that this is the last Tour School. Those wusses want as little publicity about killing the "School" as possible
The payoff used to be massive with respect to the kind of dollars that familiy-friendly sponsors (Gillete, AT&T, Accenture) used to pay him for his (albeit phoney) wholesome image.
Don't think for a minute that he was love his charity investments to induce amnesia with respect to future deep pocketed sponsors.
Also, can you PLEASE restate your last sentence? What you said makes no sense, at all.
Again, please bowl us over with a bunch of numbers that reflect how Tiger's "charity spend" manifests itself in "image build". Can you be specific?
Bet you cannot....
PS....refer to the tail end (pun intended) of the Michael Jordan thread if you want to lump me in as a...
Or do you FF the DVR through the never ending testimonial ads like the rest of us?
Did not donate to answer, but was helping run our own foundation for kids.
Our experiences in our foundation, left me very impressed with the TW Foundation and what they do.
That ok?