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True Dough

(17,311 posts) Mon Mar 11, 2024, 10:59 PM Mar 11

Top 10 athletes with highest earnings of all-time

According to Sportico. Three golfers among the top 6, and two of them (Palmer and Nicklaus) are from many moons ago.

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Top 10 athletes with highest earnings of all-time (Original Post) True Dough Mar 11 OP

What's crazy is this... Ferrets are Cool Mar 11 #1

He Was So Huge... ProfessorGAC Mar 13 #2

Ferrets are Cool

(21,107 posts)

1. What's crazy is this...

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Mon Mar 11, 2024, 11:16 PM

Mar 11

In total, the Arnold Palmer website lists his total competitive earnings excluding pro-ams and skins games at $6,924,319. So, ALL the rest of it was outside of his pro career.

ProfessorGAC

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2. He Was So Huge...

Reply to Ferrets are Cool (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 13, 2024, 04:38 PM

Mar 13

...that a dry cleaning chain paid him to use his name.
Dry cleaners wanted to be associated with a golfer.

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