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Tiger Woods is Now One of Three Known Athlete Billionaires

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0:00 [Music] so i don't know if you guys have uh been paying much attention but tiger woods is now a ████ billionaire no lebron just made it so it's just jordan lebron and tiger as uh athletes that are billionaires but those are some of the big those are obviously the biggest names um what got him there because a lot of the times it's not really like there's there's more i believe but it's like their products and investments for tigers less than 10 of his financial wealth came from him playing games wow wow yep so yeah endorsements is a huge chunk right um and obviously he had he could just do anything like he'd show up somewhere and they pay him to show up and yeah all kinds of ████ so

0:52 but yeah you know he also made money from golf earnings but like most of it like anthony says is like endorsements and others he even just turned down a nine figure deal to join the live golf league the saudi back live golf league dude tell everybody about this this is so interesting how much deal so pretty much um basically the main league in the entire golf industry has been the pga for the last like half century right professional golf association it's just the one there's really no competitor there's no rival league until recently a saudi-backed group which means they have ████ tons of money unlimited oil unlimited they made something called live golf liv golf and it's a different type of league and i guess their entire ethos is to like bring excitement back to the sport and the shareability of golf and what they did is they ████ threw out ████ tons of money to pga tour contracts in order for them to break their contracts leave the tour and come

1:43 join their golf and there is a heavy mini golf element heavy mini golf it reminds me of that ████ clown face over the clock basically goes back out there's a bridge there's a crocodile that opens his mouth and closes yeah yeah but it's professional golf there's a windmill everybody can go you're gonna die clown and so phil nicholson's like he's like yeah no i was really ahead until the clown face and honestly the crocodile just took me out and what are you gonna do what are you gonna do that's the game buggy on the windmill that's the game of golf dude and in the ████ windmill where it's like it blocks the theme oh man i didn't know i i follow a couple like some of my friends and stuff are heavy involved in golf and i've been seeing this live golf ████ but i didn't know what it was like for example between phil mickelson dustin johnson who just won the pga i think and then bryce dechambeau those three by

2:33 themselves i think scored like 400 to 500 million uh from the live golf to leave pga gee so like they're in these like huge and again there's no there has never been again pga is like kind of the do you know how much they were making comparatively prior to being way less like 10x less i believe is it really more entertaining to watch it's hard to say because i've been following golf so long but for example when you watch like a pj tour or like a tournament like the us open or the mass or something like that right there's like a way there's you know it's kind of been the same consistency like if i if you were if you wanted to watch tiger in a four-day tournament you know you'd see him tee off at one point and then you'd like pay attention to a window which is teeing off in another day this one live golf during day two today that they just finished and all 48 competitors tee off at the same time at different holes on the same course so in terms of when you're watching it

3:23 on tv and you just showed me this earlier earlier this is ████ crazy you're not like following a single group you're watching everybody and they're just cutting back to everybody's playing and then not only they're playing the individual they're also playing on teams so they have like four person teams so there's an individual uh price a prize bucket and then there's also a team one and it's way more money it's like if you ████ are in the top like for some ████ like that everybody's walking away with like five million dollars how do they pick teams have you guys ever watched nfl red zone yeah so red zone it's the the whole thing like if you turn to this channel it's just everything that's happening like near the the red zone of the so like when they're gonna score right so so it just cuts it just keeps cutting to all the different teams who are there because 32 teams playing and like on a sunday there's probably 20 something teams so it just keeps cutting to the action right and that that's what these guys are innovating on

4:13 you're not watching your grandpa's golf and falling asleep in the ████ chair you're like actually watching the action yeah there's a difference between like watching somebody hit and then like following that entire shot there's commentation on it the guy's picking up his ████ ████ with his caddy they're walking down the field too slow and they'll cut into a commercial because they're waiting for somebody to get to the next hole because they're televising that versus this one it's like the second some guy hits a shot you see where it lands you're cutting to the next major player watching their ████ many others to cut to so tiger was offered to join ilv golf with a nine figure offer that's good nine figures said he turned it down he turned it down so he's already turned it down because of endorsements like monster energy and like all these other um and he says i don't care he's like i don't care i want to play golf the way i want to ████ my girls i'm gonna ████ my hoes and my

5:03 ████ porn stars yeah and ain't nothing you can do about it because i'm talking about the ████ woods and i don't have inland to hold me down anymore i guess that makes sense if you're a billionaire like people can't really pay you to do that much at that point yeah no way hey straight up though michael jordan lebron james target was like you got to give it up to the black people who ████ whoop everybody's asses billionaires in the game outside of the game by the way tiger woods i mean look i know that he's behind jack nicholas in the in the amount oh yeah the amount of masters oh no not masters just overall um tournament championship yeah he made everyone more interested in golf he made golf cool he made golf cool exactly and he allowed people who are not white to play on certain of course what makes him like the jordan of golf like is he does he play a certain way he was undeniable like and then even in the late 90s i remember in i was in like san

5:55 diego i'm in elementary school and my teacher like pulls out the ████ tv cart to play just tiger woods playing in the open because he was there does he play he's just electrifying well number one he was during a time where like uh there was no black people black people couldn't go on certain country clubs yeah they couldn't go into the country yeah they still had segregation and jews it was black people and jews couldn't do it so even nike's first campaign with tiger they chose the first marketing campaign to be about like it's like tiger ████ slow-mo shots and they're like you won't let me play on some of your courses but i'm about to bring it you know what i mean so it's one of those things where they're trying to kind of hit that edge and stuff but tiger specifically won he he ████ had most gangster drives like he was like if people were knocking like 250 260 on drive he was starting to hit like 300 yarders and plus dang but his short game

6:47 was also undeniable whether it be his chipping or his putting from a heavily crazy shot so this guy was uh for an era consistently beating every major pro by like 10 strokes in the tournament which is like undeniable also his people to his credit had a masterful plan because like what randomly was saying earlier we're like he's on this reality show and um it's about so you think you dance but they why are they cutting to his ████ family home life it's because they're they're selling the story of him so that you're rooting for him even more and that's what happened to tiger they cut to his dad his dad teaching him they had footage of him he's so different yeah yeah and his dad's like teaching when he's a kid i want to be a big time golfer i'm a little ████ seven-year-old kid i pick my boogers and eat them and that that worked on people because it just made people want to root for him even more and it it

7:37 you know he exploded not just because he was killing the golf game but because of his story and he also was so talented that he did an innovative whatever is now called the tiger slam where he won uh all four major championships in one run in one year so he was the only person i believe to ever hold all four championships he's also the only um as far as i'm aware the only black golfer who was ever drafted by the white people in the in the racetrack i remember that ████ that was great yeah and that was a big deal at the time monumental everybody was waiting for it i was so i remember i was staying up all night to watch it and i was so ████ nervous the asians were hoping we could get them back yeah i remember that and but then when when the whites got him i remember just hugging my dad and crying and then my dad was like it was a big deal he's like i can't ████ believe this happened it was a huge wave yeah i mean i do feel like he

8:28 belongs more with the white crowd though you know like he is part asian but it's hard to claim you know you know he's more asian than black right i know i know but the the the feeling that i get is he does it it's a rifle draft he loves white women though yeah i mean you know yeah he loves him i feel cuz just like just like when we got the wu-tang clan i felt like that was a good pick and it was a rifle pick i thought it was a good pick but i remember just being relieved that we got tiger already so like i was like yeah just let it happen do you think the pga is like ████ right now the pga it's it well really depends on how you see it but the pga just actually formally put out a statement regarding this where they have now suspended any pla because even the players who leave the pj a tour usually even if you don't participate in the tour you can still if you have the right rankings and scores you can still participate in the tour tournaments like the major championships

9:18 but now the pga has explicitly pretty much said if you like go join live call you can't even come to the turn like wow and guess what phil nicholson said i have 160 million reasons to say ████ you don't give a ████ yeah that's ridiculous that's why the pga is like i mean dude honestly the way they televise golf is dog ████ it's dog ████ it's baffled anything old is gonna get ████ forgotten and things are gonna be moving you know nothing is exempt from that that's true yeah it hasn't been innovative for 30 years yeah exactly you think they would have done that by now that's the way we like it yeah i gotta say i was watching live golf today because it was round two and that show was more exciting than any pga thing i was showing to me and i couldn't believe it i was like golf is ████ fun to watch actually sure like finally cause actually like the whole thing that everyone says right is like when you're there in person it's totally different than the game and most golfers don't even watch televised golf because it's

10:08 so different in the game and if you've ever been to a hockey game by the way televised hockey is different than real life hockey show right hockey's sick hockey's ████ wrong live it's so sick but televised it's dog ████ yeah it's a lie figure out how to do it dude the way the puck moves around i don't know if they know how to televise it yet the same way like the way that it just translates when you're there like it's just different so but football probably the best way to televise something i'm obviously soccer the same way football is also good though because football's so grand that if television helps you see things yeah you know what i mean well my cheap ass is in the ████ like hell the nose bleeds and you win a football game but when it comes to ████ golf and you're sitting there and you're like trying to hold on pretend like you like it and they're like whispering as commentators and you're waiting ████ 15 minutes for the guy to choose his clothes and ████ but it almost it almost felt like it was meant to be that way like i feel

10:58 like when when i was younger and i saw golf i was like oh this is made for me to not like it because it's not for me i'm at the library that's how it felt like it felt like they weren't trying because it's like oh don't worry you're not invited anyway so it's like good i'm glad you don't like it now cause like for example they just did the ████ celebrity match where tom brady is is teamed up with was aaron rodgers and then patrick mahomes is with um with um josh allen from the buffalo bills yeah so you now not before they would have like celebrity quarterbacks maybe partner with like a pga tour champion or something like that and then that'll be the celebrity match now you just got four ████ huge quarterbacks just going at it everybody's missing their putts they're talking ████ the whole time you know what i mean that's what you want but then yeah it just seems like uh there's with a lot of sports there's a bunch of like ain't broke don't fix it kind of attitudes which is such a

11:48 mistake because they're making enough money so they can justify it but it's like you don't have to innovate ever but then all it takes is another company to come out here there's gonna be exactly the beauty of it live golf sponsored by live golf dude live golf is ████ coming to you dude yeah dude coming to your ████ face come into your face let's play that's their ████ tagline you

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