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Pro Golf Daily: Tiger Woods is the Second Highest-Paid Athlete of All-Time

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 8:26 p.m. ET

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Our latest daily roundup is here as only Michael Jordan can claim to be ahead of Tiger Woods in the history of highest-paid athletes.

Welcome back to Pro Golf Daily.

If this is your first time joining us for the daily roundup, the idea of this piece is generally to help keep you up to date on the best of all the latest news from around the world on a day-to-day basis.

As such, this column will act as a means to recap everything that you might have missed from us on the previous day, but also more importantly to share with you some of the work from around the internet that is worth your attention as a fan of the game.

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Let’s get down to it:

Best of Pro Golf Now From 12/13/16

Jordan Spieth Poised For A Bounce Back Season (read here): Brandon Musso explained why 2017 is set up to be a big bounce back year for Jordan Spieth.

Best of Golf Across The Internet From 12/13/16

One-Fourth of Forbes Highest-Paid Athletes of All-Time List Are Golfers (read here): In a list that prominently features golfers, Tiger Woods trails only Michael Jordan as Forbes’ second highest-paid athlete of all-time at $1.65 billion

Tiger Woods Commits to Riviera for 2017 Genesis Open (read here): Whether he plays before then is another question, but at the very least we know Tiger will be teeing it up at Riviera in February.

LPGA announces inaugural Senior Championship for 2017 (read here): Following in the USGA’s footsteps with the announcement of the US Senior Women’s Open, the LPGA have announced their own senior championship for Pete Dye’s design at French Lick in July.

The 2016 Open at Royal Troon: Best Duel Ever! (read here): A retelling of the action and the leadup to Henrik Stenson and Phil Mickelson’s epic duel at the Open Championship from those who were involved.

That’s it for today’s roundup but check back in tomorrow when we’ll do it all again.