For the mean Joe Bloggs, play is an costly pastime that is simply a root of thing but vexation with the unusual dash of euphoria. But for a prime few, the athletics is wherever they marque their living. Even less marque life-long careers retired of it. These 20 golfers are evidently superb astatine the game, but galore volition besides permission a lasting bequest connected the sport. Here are the apical 20 golfers connected the PGA Tour's all-time wealth database (accurate arsenic of January 2023).
By Damien McCartney|7:40pm Jan 09, 2023
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Adam Scott joins elite PGA Tour company
With his 29th spot decorativeness astatine the Tournament of Champions connected Monday greeting (AEDT), Adam Scott earned himself US$210,000.
It was capable to see him interruption done the US$60 cardinal people - becoming conscionable the seventh subordinate ever to bash so.
Scott, the 2013 Masters winner, has made 369 starts for 14 wins connected the PGA Tour. He's made an unthinkable 307 cuts.
He hasn't won since the 2019-2020 season, but helium remains progressive connected the Tour.
Lets instrumentality a look astatine the Top 20 connected the all-time money list.
Some connected the database mightiness astonishment you!
All figures are successful US dollars.
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No.20 | Stewart Cink - $42,847,649
A stalwart connected the PGA Tour, Stewart Cink made his debut backmost successful 1995.
The 2009 British Open victor has since made 651 starts for 8 wins.
His past came in the 2020-2021 season.
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No.19 | Webb Simpson - $44,260,188
Former US Open champion Webb Simpson was a portion of the 2022 US squad for the Presidents Cup.
Simpson has 7 wins connected the Tour.
Aside from his 2012 US Open triumph astatine The Olympic Club, helium has conscionable 2 different top-10 finishes astatine majors - a 5th astatine the Masters successful 2015 an an 8th astatine the rescheduled 2020 US Open.
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No.18 | Steve Stricker - $44,936,354
Stricker, excessively has been a stalwart connected the tour.
Plays chiefly connected the Champions Tour these days, but has 12 vocation PGA Tour victories.
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No.17 | Davis Love III - $44,959,243
Davis Love III was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame successful 2017.
The victor of the PGA Championship successful some 1992 and 2003, helium spent much than 450 weeks successful the Top-10 of the satellite rankings.
He's besides captained 2 US Ryder Cup teams.
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No.16 | Zach Johnson - $47,768,230
Zach Johnson volition skipper the US astatine the Ryder Cup successful Rome successful September.
Johnson won the Masters successful 2007 and The Open successful 2015.
He has 12 different PGA Tour wins.
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No.15 | Bubba Watson - $48,049,778
A two-time Masters winner, Bubba Watson was 1 of the archetypal high-profile signings to LIV Golf.
Watson turned pro successful 2002 and made his debut successful the aforesaid year.
He made 367 starts for 12 wins.
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No.14 | Ernie Els - $49,339,400
The Big Easy grew up successful South Africa playing rugby, cricket and tennis, and didn't prime up a play nine until helium was eight.
He was scratch by 14, and bushed Phil Mickelson to the 1984 Junior World Golf Championship.
He turned pro successful 1989 and made his debut the pursuing year. He has 19 vocation PGA Tour wins, and four Majors.
He won the US Open successful 1994 and 1997, and the British Open successful 2002 and 2012.
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No.13 | Jason Day - $50,791,670
The archetypal Australian connected the list, Jason Day has 17 nonrecreational wins to his name, including the 2015 PGA Championship.
He turned pro successful 2006 and started playing connected the PGA Tour immediately. He made 5 cuts successful his archetypal six events.
He deed highest signifier successful 2015, wherever helium won 5 tournaments.
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No.12 | Justin Thomas - $51,167,164
Aged conscionable 29, Thomas made his PGA Tour debut arsenic an amateur successful 2009 aged conscionable 16, and became the third-youngest subordinate to ever marque the chopped of a Tour event.
He turned pro successful 2013. His breakout twelvemonth came successful 2017, wherever helium won 5 PGA Tour events and the FedEx Cup.
He's won the PGA Championship doubly - successful 2017 and 2022.
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No.11 | Jordan Spieth - $53,056,175
Jordan Spieth turned pro successful 2012 aged conscionable 19, earlier bursting connected the country by becoming the youngest PGA Tour victor successful 82 years that July.
Spieth has since won 13 PGA Tour events, and 3 Majors - including the Masters and the US Open successful 2015. He won The Open successful 2017.
He is besides remembered for his monumental choke astatine the 2016 Masters, wherever helium blew a five-stroke pb heading into the backmost 9 to decorativeness fourth.
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No.10 | Sergio Garcia - $54,433,395
Sergio Garcia was the debased amateur astatine the 1999 Masters, and turned pro instantly after.
He won successful conscionable his sixth nonrecreational tourney - the Irish Open connected the European Tour.
He's present made 402 starts for 11 wins connected the PGA Tour. He won the Masters successful a playoff against Justin Rose successful 2017.
He resigned his PGA Tour rank and defected to LIV Golf in May 2022 aft an altercation with a rules authoritative astatine the Wells Fargo Championship.
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No.9 | Matt Kuchar - $55,183,496
Matt Kuchar is different PGA Tour stalwart, he's played fundamentally a afloat clip programme each twelvemonth since helium went afloat clip successful 2002.
He has conscionable 9 wins, but he's had 28 further top-threes and 111 top-10s.
He has besides ne'er won a major. It appears arsenic though he's made the database purely due to the fact that of however often helium plays.
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No.8 | Justin Rose - $57,432,647
Justin Rose made past erstwhile helium became the archetypal Englishman successful 43-years to triumph the US Open successful 2013.
He's besides got 2 2nd places astatine the Masters and different astatine The Open.
But backmost connected PGA Tour, he's got 10 victories from his 391 starts, and has 106 Top-10s.
He made much than US$8 cardinal successful the 2017-2018 season, erstwhile helium picked up 2 wins, 3 seconds and a third.
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No.7 | Adam Scott - $60,083,599
Scott won $210,000 for finishing successful 29th astatine the Tournament of Champions, which saw him interruption the $60 cardinal barrier.
Scott has 14 PGA Tour wins, positive the 2013 Masters win.
He's had a quiescent fewer seasons - his past triumph was backmost successful 2020.
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No.6 | Rory McIlroy - $68,064,549
2022 was dominated by the conflict betwixt LIV Golf and the PGA Tour.
Towards the backmost extremity of the year, Rory McIlroy became the Tour's biggest advocator and spokesperson - a relation that looks acceptable to proceed heavy into 2023.
The existent World No.1, McIlroy past won successful October astatine the CJ Cup successful Florida.
He's astir apt 1 of the best-known golfers connected the existent tour, and replaced Tiger Woods arsenic the look of the EA Sports PGA Tour video games successful 2015.
He's won 2 PGA Championships (2012, 2014), the US Open successful 2011 and the British Open successful 2014.
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No.5 | Vijay Singh - $71,236,216
Fijian Vijay Singh became the archetypal south-east Asian to triumph a large erstwhile helium won the 1998 PGA Championship.
He would past triumph the Masters successful 2000, and the PGA again successful 2004.
Singh has won 34 PGA Tour events. Even astatine 59, helium inactive makes semi-regular appearances connected the PGA Tour, and astatine the Majors (although helium hasn't made a chopped since the 2018 PGA.
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No.4 | Jim Furyk- $71,507,269
He won his lone large astatine the 2003 US Open, but has 17 further victories connected the PGA Tour.
He presently holds the grounds for lowest people ever successful a round, erstwhile helium changeable a 58 during the last circular of the 2016 Travelers Championship.
He's champion known for his somewhat bizarre plaything - precise adjacent to the ball, and precise vertical.
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No.3 | Dustin Johnson - $74,897,059
'DJ' shocked the golfing satellite erstwhile helium became to that constituent erstwhile helium signed with LIV Golf aboriginal successful 2022.
The adjacent subordinate connected this database besides signed, but his was seen arsenic a much typical, vocation winding down move.
Johnson won 24 PGA Tour events - astatine slightest 1 a twelvemonth betwixt 2008-2020.
In the 2015-2016 season, helium won 3 Tour events, including the US Open by 3 strokes.
His last PGA Tour triumph was arguably his biggest - the rescheduled 2020 Masters, wherever helium won by a whopping 5 strokes implicit Sung-Jae Im and chap LIV Golfer Cameron Smith.
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No.2 | Phil Mickelson - $94,955,060
Many thought Lefty's astonishing vocation was much oregon little implicit erstwhile helium got to the 2021 PGA Championship.
But helium produced 1 of the champion performances of his vocation to triumph by 2 shots.
He's tumultuous narration with the nationalist surrounding LIV Golf started successful May erstwhile helium described the Saudis arsenic "scary motherf---ers", but supported them nevertheless due to the fact that it presented an accidental to reshape the PGA Tour.
As the LIV statement continues to rage, galore reason Mickelson has each but erased what would person been a superb play legacy.
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No.1 | Tiger Woods - $120,895,206
Of people No.1 was going to beryllium Tiger Woods. You knew it was going to beryllium Tiger from the start.
His stats are ridiculous - 371 PGA Tour starts for 82 wins, 50 further top-threes, and 199 top-10s.
In 2005, 2007, and 2009 his yearly winnings topped $10 million. He astir did it successful 2000 excessively - erstwhile prize pools were importantly smaller.
Tiger successful 2000 was unstoppable - entered 20 tournaments for 9 wins, 4 2nd placings and a third. He finished successful the apical 25 successful each event.
He's won 15 majors and contiguous is inactive astir apt the best-known sanction successful golf.
The Woods sanction looks arsenic though it whitethorn unrecorded connected arsenic his lad Charlie continues to amusement promise.