Pity the poor golf pro at the local course because it would take cloning him almost 2,000 times to equal the take-home pay of Tiger Woods, pictured left.

The average head golf pro earns almost $58,500, while Woods took home almost $112 million, according to data compiled by Web site Salary.com and in a report entitled “How many ‘Average Joe’s’ does it take to earn a pro athlete’s salary?” published reports.

Tiger’s pay dwarfs even Professional Golf Association Commissioner Tim Finchem’s $4.5 million salary, according to data compiled by Salary.com from  published reports in 2004 and 2005.

The disparity doesn’t end there as it would take more than 1,500 exercise specialists earnings more than $36,300 to equal boxer Oscar De La Hoya’s $55 million take home, 545 senior automotive mechanics making almost $50,000 to match NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s $27.1 million and 384 flight attendants making almost $60,000 to equal the $23 million earned by tennis pro Maria Sharapova. (pictured right)

All that is of little surprise to sports fans, who have watched salaries balloon across most professional sports. Long gone are the days when New York Yankees’ baseball pitcher Don Larsen, who threw a perfect game in the World Series, worked on farms and lumber yards in the offseason to supplement his income.

Of course, to appeal to the media, Salary.com threw in that it would take 3,692 reporters’ salaries to match Tiger’s, which just goes to show that Woods is buying the next time he shows up at the National Press Club.

updates to clarify sourcing on data