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TIGER WOODS TO BECOME FIRST BILLIONAIRE ATHLETE: Golfer expected to surpass mark in 2010.
The golf icon is on track to become the first athlete to reach one billion dollars in career earnings - and according to Forbes Magazine, he may do it as soon as 2010.
"It will be an unprecedented occurrence," the magazine said. "There are plenty of billionaires who have excelled at sports like Switzerland's richest man and champion sailor Ernesto Bertarelli. But there are no billionaires who accumulated their fortune by playing sports."
The magazine said in its Wednesday edition that while tycoons like Bill Gates accumulated his wealth by holding a stake in a company with soaring profits, Woods is unique because his massive fortune was earned through paychecks. Tiger banked $115 million last year alone.
After winning the U.S. Open in June, Tiger announced that he's taking the rest of the year off to heal from several surgeries on his knee.
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