Tiger Woods ‘received DEATH THREATS’ after inking first $40m Nike deal,
former executive reveals, with ‘a race component to a lot of’ the backlash
Woods inked a $40million, five-year deal when he was just 20 years old in 1996 – the first of an iconic 27-year partnership.
he stepped on the first tee, would be guaranteed $60 million,’ he told Mail Sport.
‘By that, I mean even if he had he missed every cut for the rest of his career, for at least the first five years that money was in the bank guaranteed.
‘There was no recourse, there was no reclaiming of any of those revenues by Nike or Titleist. He was set up. That’s so unusual’.
