Tiger Woods received some welcome news this week with his minority stake in golf-simulator company Full Swing landing him a check for up to $10million.
The 50-year-old invested in the company back in 2015 and, according to Front Office Sports, he holds between a 1 and 2 percent stake in the business.
Full Swing is being sold by George Pyne’s Bruin Capital for $530million to Versant, the parent company of Golf Channel.
That deal would mean Woods pockets as much as $10.6million if his stake is just 2 percent.
Full Swing has endorsement deals with some of Woods’s friends and competitors in the golf world. PGA Tour stars Jordan Spieth and Xander Schauffele have a partnership, as do LIV golfers Jon Rahm and Dustin Johnson.
And outside of the professional circuits, deals have also been made with NFL quarterbacks Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen – both very keen golfers when they are away from the football field.
Tiger Woods’s 2015 investment in Full Swing has landed him a payday worth up to $10.6m
It’s some good news for Woods after a tough few months after his March DUI arrest
For Woods, who has a stunning estimated net worth of $1.5billion, it’s some welcome good news in what has been a trying 2026 so far.
He was on the brink of returning to the game after tearing his Achilles and underhoing a seventh back procedure in 2025 when he rolled his car near his Jupiter Island home and was arrested for DUI.
Woods pleaded not guilty and he blew clear on a breathalyzer test but refused to give a urine sample and police found two hydrocodone pills in his pocket – a powerful painkiller.
Police also said his eyes were bloodshot and glassy when they interviewed him at the scene of the crash.
Woods then checked into rehab in Switzerland for help in managing his medications and returned to the United States for good in June. His next hearing over the DUI case is scheduled for August 4.
He has since made a return to the public eye by appearing at a PGA Tour press conference in Connecticut in late June, supporting the tour’s new changes to the structure of its season from 2028.
‘We have to look forward and beyond today and over the horizon to set up the PGA Tour and our sport for the future generations of players and fans,’ Woods said in a short statement supporting the changes.
He made a temporary return to the US in May after his girlfriend Vanessa Trump was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Woods, 50, returned to the public eye in late June after his rehab stint in Switzerland
Trump, mother to five of the President’s grandchildren after her previous marriage to Donald Trump Jr, said in her latest June update that she is proceeding with the second stage of her treatment.
The Daily Mail exclusively reported around the time of Woods’s arrest and fallout that while Trump was standing by him in public, behind closed doors she was furious at what had happened and told Woods that she would not tolerate a repeat.
Woods’s teenage son Charlie, meanwhile, came out on top of a college golf money list this week with an estimated worth of $3million in his own right.
Vanessa’s daughter Kai, also a promising golfer with a huge online profile, was second with an estimated wealth of $2.25m from NIL deals.
