{"id":1143251,"date":"2020-04-16T18:47:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T22:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1143251"},"modified":"2020-09-16T13:13:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T17:13:49","slug":"watching-tiger-woods-moves-has-made-rory-mcilroy-300-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/watching-tiger-woods-moves-has-made-rory-mcilroy-300-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching Tiger Woods\u2019 Moves Has Made Rory McIlroy $300 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Enthusiastic golf fans follow <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/mount-rushmore-of-mens-golf-tiger-woods-jack-nicklaus-and\/\">Tiger Woods<\/a> around on the course, but fellow PGA star <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/arnold-palmers-letter-to-rory-mcilroy-confirms-his-golf-legacy-as-the-king\/\">Rory McIlroy<\/a> is the guy smart enough to be tailing him off the course. McIlroy, the winner of four major championships and a regular in the top 10, has become enormously wealthy by following Woods\u2019 most important endorsement deals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PGA Tour winnings are less than half the story for stars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rory McIlroy How to Hit a One-Hop Stop Chip | TaylorMade Golf\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xkF3I3jkfCs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Business Insider did a story last year about how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/athletes-endorsements-nba-golf-tennis-2019-6\">endorsement money<\/a> dwarfs salaries and winnings for many top athletes. In tennis, Roger Federer makes 84% of his money from endorsements and Rafael Nadal checks in at 65%. The numbers for golfers leap off the page:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Tiger Woods, 97%<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/tiger-woods-vs-phil-mickelson-who-has-a-higher-net-worth\/\">Phil Mickelson<\/a>, 90%<\/li><li>Rory McIlroy, 90%<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Website pegged Woods\u2019\nendorsement income at $42 million and McIlroy\u2019s at $34 million. Bridgestone and\nMonster Energy are a couple of Woods\u2019 lesser deals, and the same could be said\nfor McIlroy\u2019s relationships with Omega and UpperDeck. But where the subject of\nendorsements gets interesting is when the two golfers\u2019 decisions converge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tiger Woods had been the face\nof Electronic Arts\u2019 PGA golf video game from 1998 to 2013, with the arrangement\nending around the time that his back injuries severely limited Woods\u2019 presence\nin the sport. EA announced in 2013 that the next version of the game would\nfeature another golfer. When it was time to make the announcement in March 2015,\nthat golfer\u2019s name was Rory McIlroy, who was coming off victories the previous\nseason in the U.S. Open and PGA Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy pick their clubs carefully<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tiger Woods and Jim Nantz Reflect on 2019 Masters and Rescheduled Tournament | CBS Sports\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZBowh3uWfIw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/nike-paid-35-for-its-swoosh-logo-worth-many-millions\/\">Nike<\/a> locked Tiger Woods into an endorsement deal in 1996, but equipment wasn\u2019t part of the arrangement since the industry behemoth didn\u2019t start manufacturing golf balls until 1998 or clubs into 2002. When Woods won the WGC-AMEX in Ireland that year while using the new clubs it looked like Nike had found a license to print money since even double-digit handicappers want to play the same brand that champions use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Woods stuck with Nike equipment and continued\nhis domination of the sport, including 31 PGA Tour titles from 2005-09. Along\nthe way, Nike accumulated a handful of other top golfers. The company scored\nbig when Rory McIlroy followed in Woods\u2019 footsteps for the first time by\nsigning a 10-year endorsement deal reportedly worth $200 million in 2013 and\nthen proceeded to double his total of victories in majors to four the following\nseason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking over Woods\u2019 Electronic Arts deal was the\nsecond time McIlroy followed in the footsteps of the man with 15 major\nchampionships. The third time came after Nike dropped a bombshell in 2016 by\nannouncing that it was exiting the golf equipment business. Players signed to\nNike deals would continue getting paid for wearing Nike shoes and apparel, but\nthey were all free agents when it came to choosing sets of clubs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was essentially free money to be made, and Woods jumped first in January 2017 by endorsing TaylorMade clubs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/story\/rory-mcilroy-signs-equipment-deal-with-taylormade\">McIlroy followed Woods<\/a> again four months later, signing with TaylorMade for $100 million over 10 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two golf decisions in the footsteps of Woods\nearned McIlroy $300 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Two giants on the golf course<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tiger Woods\u2019 top 10 Masters moments | SportsCenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k2BNILFjTNM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As noted, the endorsement money for top golfers often exceeds what they earn from tournaments by a lot. But it\u2019s not as though Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are hurting in that department, either. Woods is the PGA Tour\u2019s career leader in earnings at $120,660,780. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, McIlroy is eighth at $52,552,481 and is still only 30 years old. He has led the season money list three times and finished in the top 10 three other times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When his existing deal with Nike expires, McIlroy will be positioned to sign another big endorsement agreement \u2013 with or without Woods paving the way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiger Woods was the role model for Rory McIlroy when it came to making lucrative endorsement deals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":1143268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4898],"tags":[12970,13244],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Watching Tiger Woods\u2019 Moves Has Made Rory McIlroy $300 Million - Sports7<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tiger Woods has been the role model for Rory McIlroy when it comes to lucrative endorsement deals for gold equipment and apparel.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/watching-tiger-woods-moves-has-made-rory-mcilroy-300-million\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Watching Tiger Woods\u2019 Moves Has Made Rory McIlroy $300 Million\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tiger Woods has been the role model for Rory McIlroy when it comes to lucrative endorsement deals for gold equipment and apparel.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/watching-tiger-woods-moves-has-made-rory-mcilroy-300-million\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sports7\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-16T22:47:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-09-16T17:13:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Tiger-Woods-2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"John Moriello\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Sports7J\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"John Moriello\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/watching-tiger-woods-moves-has-made-rory-mcilroy-300-million\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/watching-tiger-woods-moves-has-made-rory-mcilroy-300-million\/\",\"name\":\"Watching Tiger Woods\u2019 Moves Has Made Rory McIlroy $300 Million - 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