{"id":980,"date":"2007-09-16T11:06:54","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T15:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/?p=980"},"modified":"2009-03-04T09:37:28","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T13:37:28","slug":"caddie-cash-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/caddie-cash-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Caddie Cash-In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The winner of the FedEx Cup receives a $10 million annuity. The winner of the Tour Championship receives $1.3 million. Tiger is poised to win both of these today. That means his single-day take home is $11.3 million. That\u2019s a lot of bacon, especially when you consider that he can\u2019t touch the $10 million annuity until the miracle of compound interest has turned it into something like $30 or 40 million.<\/p>\n<p>A caddie may get 10% of a players winnings on a \u201cnormal\u201d week. There may be a bonus when his player wins. So, a conservative estimate of what Tiger Woods\u2019 caddie, Steve Williams will potentially earn today is $1.13 million. That\u2019s good pay for carrying a bag for four hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The winner of the FedEx Cup receives a $10 million annuity. The winner of the Tour Championship receives $1.3 million. Tiger is poised to win both of these today. That means his single-day take home is $11.3 million. That\u2019s a lot of bacon, especially when you consider that he can\u2019t touch the $10 million annuity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[123,769,1163,220],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golf","tag-championship","tag-fedex-cup","tag-golf","tag-pga-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}