Tiger Woods Hits Week 500 of Golf Top World Rankings

Tiger hits the big five-O-O! The big week 500, that is.

The official world golf rankings were released after Tiger Woods collected his 14th major championship title at the U.S. Open on Monday. Tiger has been atop the ranking for the 500th week.

Woods first made it to the top spot in 1997, after winning his first major title at The Masters.

Also noteworthy: Rocco Mediate zooms 111 places to the number 47 spot in the new rankings, after his playoff loss to Woods at the 2008 U.S. Open.

The Highest Paid Golfer:

Tiger Woods is currently the World Number 1 golfer. He was the highest-paid professional athlete in 2007, having earned an estimated $122 million from winnings and endorsements. According to Golf Digest, Woods made $769,440,709 from 1996 to 2007, and predicts that by 2010, Woods will become the world’s first athlete to pass one billion dollars in earnings.

Go, Tiger, go.

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