Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson have been named on the Forbes checklist of the world’s high 10 highest-paid athletes for 2023.
The pair accepted profitable provides in 2022 to affix LIV Golf, the breakaway circuit spearheaded by Greg Norman and funded by Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund. Mickelson’s signing-on price was reported to be round $200 million, whereas Johnson is believed to have acquired someplace within the area of $125m to defect to the upstart tour that has prompted a rift within the males’s sport.
LIV Golf additionally provides the largest match purses within the sport, in addition to assured cash irrespective of the place you end in any of the 48-man occasions, permitting the duo to combine it with among the greatest names in world sport, together with Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Roger Federer.
Johnson sits sixth on the checklist with estimated earnings of $107m this 12 months, helped by successful simply shy of $36m in prize cash by LIV occasions in 2022, which included $18m for clinching the season-long particular person championship.
Mickelson is one place behind Johnson on $106m, regardless of on-course earnings of simply over $1.8m on the Saudi-funded circuit final 12 months. The left-hander, who left Augusta Nationwide $1.6m richer due to a shock T2 end on the 2023 Masters, cracked the Forbes top-10 checklist for 11 straight years from 2006 to 2016 however ranked thirty first in 2022 with $45.3m.
Behind Mickelson are basketball star Stephen Curry in eighth, Federer in ninth and Kevin Durant in tenth.
Forbes 10 Highest-Paid Athletes 2023
- Cristiano Ronaldo: $136 million
- Lionel Messi: $130 million
- Kylian Mbappe: $120 million
- LeBron James: $119 million
- Canelo Alvarez: $110 million
- Dustin Johnson: $107 million
- Phil Mickelson: $106 million
- Stephen Curry: $100 million
- Roger Federer: $95 million
- Kevin Durant: $89 million
