Tiger, Mickelson top SI money list

Tiger Woods edged Phil Mickelson for the top spot in Sports Illustrated's Fortunate 50 list of top US athlete moneymakers while Swiss tennis star Roger Federer led non-Americans to rank third overall.

Woods, who missed this week's US Open golf championship with a left knee injury, set the pace in figures released on Thursday, as he has in all eight years of the magazine's study, with $62,294,116 in prize money and endorsements.

In the wake of his infamous sex scandal and a win drought that has reached 20 months, Woods plunged from his 2008 figure of $127.9 million and is off by $10 million from 2010 and $32 million from 2009.

Mickelson, who turned 41 on Thursday as he began play at Congressional country Club, was second on $61,185,933. His $57 million in endorsements was $3 million shy of Woods but he won nearly twice as much in prize money.

Federer topped the international list of 20 at $52,781,940, edging Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao, who was fourth overall at $52,500,000. Spanish auto racer Fernando Alonso was next on $45 million.

Among the Americans, NBA star LeBron James ranked third overall with $44.5 million followed by NFL star Peyton Manning on $38.07 million, baseball's Alex Rodriguez at $36 million and NBA playmaker Kobe Bryant at $34.8 million.