# Tiger Woods still gets a 3 million dollar appearance fee for playing in tournaments?!

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**Created:** [January 13, 2013, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiger-woods-still-gets-a-3-million-dollar-appearance-fee-for-playing-in-tournaments/647088 "2013-01-13T20:03:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiger-woods-still-gets-a-3-million-dollar-appearance-fee-for-playing-in-tournaments/647088/1 "2013-01-13T20:03:20Z")

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[Wow! I guess he still has some star power in the bank](http://blogs.golf.com/presstent/2013/01/tiger-woods-not-worth-3-million-appearance-fee-says-qatar-golf-official.html?xid=ob_sipopular).

Quatar thinks that’s a bit steep.

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> The organizer of the Qatar Masters said that Tiger Woods is not worth paying $3 million to compete in the European Tour event, according to the Doha News.
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> When it comes to spending money on sports, even Qatar has its limits.
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> During yesterday’s press conference about the upcoming Commercial Bank Qatar Masters, the president of the Qatar Golf Association minced no words in explaining, when asked, why former number one Tiger Woods would not be playing here.
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> “Tiger Woods demands $3 million just for an appearance, if he were to compete in the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters – which is not worth paying for a tournament of $2.5 million prize money,” Hassan al Nuaimi said

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**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiger-woods-still-gets-a-3-million-dollar-appearance-fee-for-playing-in-tournaments/647088/2 "2013-01-14T00:03:34Z")

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He draws crowds. Don’t forget that he is ranked #3 in the world.

Like Donald, #2, wouldn’t draw 1/10 the crowd. And he’d draw more than #1 ranked Rory McIlroy.

These are people who don’t really know much about golf, but know the name Tiger Woods.

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**Author:** ![R.P.McMurphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiger-woods-still-gets-a-3-million-dollar-appearance-fee-for-playing-in-tournaments/647088/3 "2013-01-14T01:04:30Z")

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At least he can still play a decent game of golf. If pond scum like Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and the Kardashians can get hundreds of thousands just by showing up at a party then who’s to judge?

Tiger’s participation at least involves some time and talent.

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**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiger-woods-still-gets-a-3-million-dollar-appearance-fee-for-playing-in-tournaments/647088/4 "2013-01-14T01:43:11Z")

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His presence also more than doubles the TV ratings, which means the tournament sponsor can charge a lot more for coverage.