Who is the most payed golfer?
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1 1 Tiger Woods  $57,940,144 \n2 2 Vijay Singh  $46,407,643 \n3 3 Phil Mickelson  $37,121,360 \n4 4 Davis Love III  $32,828,735 \n5 5 Ernie Els  $26,552,751 \n6 6 Jim Furyk  $25,175,800 \n7 7 David Toms  $25,041,178 \n8 8 Justin Leonard  $20,720,563 \n9 9 Nick Price  $20,395,519 \n10 10 Kenny Perry  $19,766,233 \n11 11 Mark Calcavecchia  $18,873,893 \n12 12 Fred Couples  $18,736,127 \n13 13 Scott Hoch  $18,487,114 \n14 14 Fred Funk  $18,257,085 \n15 15 Tom Lehman  $18,040,113
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No one else except what he pays his caddie.
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YES! "the PGA's plan is still considered the best in pro sports".\n\n"PGA: Year Pension Plan Began: 1983\n\nOriginally launched by former PGA Commissioner, Deane Beman, the current PGA pension uses a complicated formula to determine earnings for retired players -- with benefits available at the age of 60. It's based on a combination of the number of tournaments in which a player makes the cut, total earnings each year, and earnings during three separate segments of each PGA season.\n\nUsing a performance-based pension plan instead of just the number of years played is done to encourage players to enter more tournaments. There are incentives throughout the plan, such as earning double the more than $3,200 per cut after a golfer reaches 15 cuts.\n\nWhile it is unrealistic to assume golfers will hit every incentive, the PGA's plan is still considered the best in pro sports. Even with limiting the number of tournaments he competes in, Tiger Woods' estimated pension is around $200 million, and could go as high as $300 million.
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Jack Nicklaus, by far. I agree that Tiger Woods is right up there with Gary Player, Severiano Ballesteros, Ben Hogan, and Arnold Palmer, but now-a-days, Tiger Woods has far better clubs than Jack Nicklaus had to work with. It's like asking, "Who's better? Michael Jordan or Dwayne Wade." Of course most would say Michael Jordan because he's a legend.
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Three golfers were disqualified from the tournament yesterday after officials found out that they had made the greatest sin in the game.\nJumman, DS Raghuvanshi and Binod Pandey had been caught for manipulating their score cards.\nThese three players face two-year ban from the sport.
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1. LaDanian Tomlison-highest paid RB...sooo far\n\n2. Peyton Manning-highest paid QB....sooo far\n\n3. Marvin Harrison-highest paid WR....sooo far
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Although Couples would clearly be the emotional favorite, at this particular moment (Saturday evening, 10:30pm eastern time), Tiger woods is a significant favorite to win.  Tiger is currently priced at +275, with Mickelson next at +500, Els at +1200 and Singh at +1200.   Freddy is at +5000 (a 50:1 underdog), according to the gamblers.\n\nToday's rain played right into Tiger's hands.  Softening up the fairways makes it hard for the short hitters and softening up the greens rewards the aggressive players like Tiger and Mickelson.
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September 2005 Golf Digest did a feature on college golf.  They broke them down in a number of ways, including skill, academics, balance, and available local courses. The article is really indepth and has a lot of great information about coaches and other players, and I couldn't do it justice summarizing it, so see if you can find it at your library.\n\nDuke was ranked number 1 though.
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The "special" celebrity ones are the highest earners however, they usually have more money to play with. I have seen something like £9000 on the normal one at the end of the week where all the winners play again
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Here's a poll:\n\nBen Hogan    5 5.21% \nJack Nicklaus    51 53.13% \nArnold Palmer    5 5.21% \nGary Player    0 0% \nSeve Ballesteros    3 3.13% \nNick Faldo    1 1.04% \nGreg Norman    2 2.08% \nErnie Els    0 0% \nVijay Singh    1 1.04% \nTiger Woods    28 29.17%
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go for the 1 who has the most money
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you have to add marketing incomes and other resources. For the forbes magazine David Beckham was the best paid soccer player. Ronaldo, Zidane, Ronaldinho, Totti (AS ROMA), Owen, Lampard and others follow David Beckham in the list.\nFor the france football magazine Ronaldinho is the best paid with E 23 millons based on salary, advertising incomes and other incomes. He is followed by Beckham, Ronaldo, rooney, Christian Vieri, Zidane, Del Piero, Lampard, Thierry Henry and John Terry.
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Considering all he does is swing a golf club around, I'd say "yes."  What he does adds no REAL value to everyday life.\n\nPolice, teachers, firemen, EMTs, should all be paid more.
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Mickelson  $5 billion\nhttp://www.destinies.com/pdf/Simply_One_Of_The_Best%20In_The_Game.pdf\n\nTiger $1 billion\nhttp://www.golfdigest.com/features/index.ssf?/features/gd200602top502.html
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The Top 30 players on the Money List:\n~ Stuart Appleby (8 on the money list)\n~ Chad Champbell (13)\n~ KJ Choi (26)\n~ Stewart Cink (14)\n~ Ben Curtis (29)\n~ Luke Donald (9)\n~ Joe Durant (23)\n~ Ernie Els (27)\n~ Jim Furyk (2)\n~ Lucas Glover (21) \n~ Retief Goosen (25)\n~ JJ Henry (28)\n~ Trevor Immelman (7)\n~ Zach Johnson (24)\n~ Davis Love III (15) \n~ Aaron Oberholser (22)\n~ Geoff Ogilvy (5) \n~ Rod Pampling (17) \n~ Tom Pernice, Jr. (30)\n~ Carl Pettersson (16)\n~ Brett Quigley  (18)\n~ Rory Sabbatini (12)\n~ Adam Scott (6)\n~ Vijay Singh (3)\n~ David Toms (11)\n~ Brett Wetterich (10)\n~ Dean Wilson (20)\n***Tiger Woods (1), Phil Mickelson (4), and Stephen Ames (19) withdrew for different reasons***
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Golfer Natalie Gulbis:\nhttp://www.nataliegulbis.com/
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If you meant "payer" - then I'd say George Steinbrenner.  The NY Yankees have the highest salary of any professional sports team.\n\nIf you meant "player" - then I'd say Bo Jackson.  He excelled in two sports - baseball and football.  Unfortunately, his career was cut short by a hip injury sustained while running a sweep as a RB for the Raiders.