Tiger Woods heads Forbes rich list again after 'love rat' hiatus

Golfer earns $78.1m in 2012 to top the wealth list he dominated for 11 consecutive years

Tiger Woods wins at the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill
(Image credit: 2012 Getty Images)

WHO SAYS cheats never prosper? Tiger Woods, whose career and image went into a nosedive after he was discovered to be cheating on his wife, today heads the new Forbes list of the world's 100 highest paid athletes.

The 37-year-old golfer tops the Forbes leader-board after taking home $78.1 million last year, the bulk coming from endorsement deals totalling $65 million. The rest - $13.1 million - he won on the course as he showed glimpses of the form he displayed before his world imploded in December 2009.

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