Tiger Woods Highest Paid US Athlete

Tiger earned $99,737,626 between winnings, bonuses and endorsements in 2008. With his on-course gambling winnings- you'd think he probably cracked $100M. Not a bad year, but actually down from the year before. The big bad down economy is treating him so poorly.

Phil on the other hand made a puny $52,950,356, still good for second on the list by over $10M.

To give you some perspective on the rest of the top 10: