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12. Tiger Woods

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Total Earnings: $45.3 million

Prize Money: $274,000

Endorsements: $45 million

The 14-time major winner has played only 18 events since the start 2014 and made six cuts. Woods’s bag sponsor, MusclePharm, paid him $2.5 million this year to terminate his contract and buyout the remaining $7 million owed. Woods’ course design business has picked up after the financial crisis hampered his first attempts. He opened his first U.S.-based course in 2015 outside of Houston.

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