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Some poor bastard is settling into his recliner for Masters Sunday. 

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19 minutes ago, heso said:

They waive their right to collect any prize money before the tournament. 

That sounds like an episode or deal or no deal.   What if you're an amateur who wins the whole thing.  DO you really want to turn down $2mil in advance?

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22 minutes ago, midtown said:

That sounds like an episode or deal or no deal.   What if you're an amateur who wins the whole thing.  DO you really want to turn down $2mil in advance?

You don't even get the option. If you qualify as an am, you have to play as an am. Let's say you win the us Am this year and qualify for the Masters next year. If you turn pro in the interim, you lose your spot and would have to qualify as a pro. 

Confidence level, 87%. 

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1 hour ago, pops said:

You don't even get the option. If you qualify as an am, you have to play as an am. Let's say you win the us Am this year and qualify for the Masters next year. If you turn pro in the interim, you lose your spot and would have to qualify as a pro. 

Confidence level, 87%. 

Yep. That’s what they turn pro on the Monday after the Masters. 

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1 hour ago, pops said:

You don't even get the option. If you qualify as an am, you have to play as an am. Let's say you win the us Am this year and qualify for the Masters next year. If you turn pro in the interim, you lose your spot and would have to qualify as a pro. 

Confidence level, 87%. 

Unless your qualification isn’t based on your am status, obviously. For example if you played in the US open as an am and finished top 5, it wouldn’t matter if you stayed an am or turned pro, you’d still have your exemption for the masters. 

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1 hour ago, heso said:

Unless your qualification isn’t based on your am status, obviously. For example if you played in the US open as an am and finished top 5, it wouldn’t matter if you stayed an am or turned pro, you’d still have your exemption for the masters. 

True (except I think it's top 4 now)... Same with the British. So those would be the two exceptions. Not sure when you would be able to turn pro under those circumstances for the purposes of getting paid. Would assume it isn't mid tourney. 

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2 hours ago, DCA_HORN said:

I always thought as long as you decided before the last round you could get paid. Guess not.

That would be hilarious.

But as Pop explained, absolutely not you can't do that since qualifying as an am is different. You can't be like "yeah I want to go the easier qualification route but still get paid at the end of the week."

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Ok.  That all makes sense from a pro/am standpoint.  I'd like to see them offer up the amateur  prize money to a charity of the amateurs choice or even a charity designated by the masters.   It's not like they cant afford it. Puts some incentive and competitiveness in there.  Not like being in the masters doesn't already motivate you.

 

I think Tiger will become even more popular than he or most athletes have ever been because he really fucked up and not just in rumors or in private.  He fucked up in a very public way and came back.  People love people who are just as fucked up as we are.  because who hasn't been with playboy bunny tatted hoes?   

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On 4/14/2019 at 10:32 PM, Napoleon said:

I was just thinking about how much this win will mean to Tiger's bank account. 

According to the Interwebz, he has a net worth of $800 Million.

Is this win worth $25M? $50M? $75M? More...?

 

On 4/14/2019 at 11:58 PM, ChiTownDoc said:

He actually doesn’t have a lot of endorsement deals compared to pre-scandal.  I’m not sure he’s super motivated to do it but if he wanted it’s 200M+ in contracts.  That’s conservative when you extrapolate over a decade or 3.  

Masters 2019: The clubs Tiger Woods used to win the Masters

Tiger Woods stood on the tee of the par-3 16th tee at Augusta National with an 8-iron in his hands. Some could be forgiven if they felt a sense of deja vu as Woods tugged an 8-iron on the same hole in 2005 before making a miracle chip for birdie. But this wasn’t the same 8-iron. This time Woods was using a TaylorMade P7TW iron, and when he knocked it to kick-in distance, it gave him enough of a cushion to secure his fifth Masters title and one of the great comeback stories in sports history.

When Woods signed with TaylorMade in January 2017, no one was quite sure what Woods was going to bring to the company. There was talk of his value to the brand, more than as a player of product, although at the time it was mentioned he would be “expected to work with TaylorMade's club engineers in the design and development of a ‘new, personalized iron model.’ ” Now, some two-plus years and a second iteration later, those irons—the P7TW muscleback blades—have a major championship to their credit.

The irons are traditionally shaped, muscleback blade irons with a focus on feel, not forgiveness or distance. To achieve that feel required the use of tungsten to produce, in his words, a deeper feel. “It wasn’t until we included tungsten in his irons that we got the final seal of approval from him,’ said Matt Bovee, product manufacturing engineer for TaylorMade. The company just announced at the beginning of the week that the irons will begin selling at retail in May.

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New company, new irons, new ball new driver but slipping on the green jacket for his 15th major meant for this week it was the same old Tiger.

What Tiger Woods had in the bag at the Masters

Ball: Bridgestone Tour B XS
Driver: TaylorMade M5 (Mitsubishi Diamana D+ 60TX), 9 degrees
3-wood: TaylorMade M5, 15 degrees
5-wood: TaylorMade M3, 19 degrees
Irons (3-PW): TaylorMade P7TW
Wedges: TaylorMade Milled Grind (56, 60 degrees)
Putter: Scotty Cameron by Titleist Newport 2 Tiger prototype

https://sports.yahoo.com/masters-2019-clubs-tiger-woods-182619784.html

 

Someone call the US Mint, because money is going to need to be printed!!!

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If "motivated", he could top $120 M (in today's dollars) from June 1st, 2019 to May 31st, 2020.

Don't you think that he'd be motivated to become the first Billionaire Professional Golfer?

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If "motivated", he could top $120 M (in today's dollars) from June 1st, 2019 to May 31st, 2020.

Don't you think that he'd be motivated to become the first Billionaire Professional Golfer?

He will be the first billionaire professional golfer if he isn't already. Between 1996 and 2016 he earned approximately $1.37Billion on the course and through endorsements (source).  That doesn't include two things... taxes and investments.  He has numerous restaurants and likely many business ventures and has definitely put money in the stock market.  So the compounding returns on those earnings years probably has him really close or just over the billionaire mark even after you adjust for his tax obligations on a yearly basis.  If he isn't a billionaire or damn close then he has made some truly shitty decisions. 

If you just look at the $89M he made in 2006, chop off 40% for taxes, and adjust if for a 7% return yearly through 2019 you get $128.6M.  Bump that rate of return to 10% and just that year of earnings becomes $184.25M.  The guy is probably already a billionaire, even with his $100M divorce.

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2 hours ago, Jhawk said:

He will be the first billionaire professional golfer if he isn't already. Between 1996 and 2016 he earned approximately $1.37Billion on the course and through endorsements (source).  That doesn't include two things... taxes and investments.  He has numerous restaurants and likely many business ventures and has definitely put money in the stock market.  So the compounding returns on those earnings years probably has him really close or just over the billionaire mark even after you adjust for his tax obligations on a yearly basis.  If he isn't a billionaire or damn close then he has made some truly shitty decisions. 

If you just look at the $89M he made in 2006, chop off 40% for taxes, and adjust if for a 7% return yearly through 2019 you get $128.6M.  Bump that rate of return to 10% and just that year of earnings becomes $184.25M.  The guy is probably already a billionaire, even with his $100M divorce.

But then he took a nine iron to the face and gave half his shit away.

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That photo on the cover of SI is for the masses, if you want a photo of how Tiger took the lead and won the Masters - I think this one does it very nicely

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(sorry for the framing, it is from a Michael Clayton tweet - to see it copy and paste the link, but delete the spaces after twitter.com, the photo frames even worse as a tweet)

https://twitter.com /MichaelClayto15/status/1118383587789873152

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On 4/19/2019 at 5:44 PM, PittsburghTiger said:

 

I remember watching that live.  I was a golfer at the time and it was pretty annoying to see a 5 year old that was way way better than I was.  Of course I was only a few years older than he was.

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