Tiger Woods Is Still the Highest Paid Athlete in America 1.88K Brian Moylan 07/21/10 02:09PM Filed to: Salaries Salaries Tiger Woods Elin Nordegren Sports Illustrated Gettypic All that drama from screwing a bunch of hoochies only cost Tiger Woods $10 million, apparently. He's still atop Sports Illustrated's list of highest-paid athletes, having raked in $90 million last year. Elin must be thrilled to hear that, no?