From the first $1 million season to the first $100 million career, money has tracked the growth of professional golf. These are the landmarks and the all-time leaders.
The biggest career earners in PGA Tour history by official money won.
| Rank | Player | Career Earnings | Tour Wins |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇺🇸 Tiger Woods | $120.9M | 82 |
| 2 | 🇺🇸 Phil Mickelson | $96.6M | 45 |
| 3 | 🇬🇧 Rory McIlroy | $92.5M | 29 |
| 4 | 🇺🇸 Scottie Scheffler | $88.9M | 20 |
| 5 | 🇺🇸 Dustin Johnson | $75.0M | 24 |
| 6 | 🇺🇸 Jim Furyk | $71.5M | 17 |
| 7 | 🇫🇯 Vijay Singh | $71.2M | 34 |
| 8 | 🇺🇸 Justin Thomas | $62.3M | 16 |
| 9 | 🇺🇸 Jordan Spieth | $62.2M | 13 |
| 10 | 🇦🇺 Adam Scott | $61.0M | 14 |
Figures are approximate official PGA Tour career earnings as of the 2025 season and exclude FedEx Cup bonus pools, unofficial money, and prize money earned outside the PGA Tour. Players who departed for LIV Golf (Mickelson, Johnson) stopped accruing official PGA Tour money in 2022.
First $1M Season
🇺🇸 Curtis Strange
Became the first player to win $1 million in a single season in 1988.
First $10M Season
🇫🇯 Vijay Singh
Won a then-record $10.9 million in official money in 2004.
First to $100M Career
🇺🇸 Tiger Woods
The first golfer to surpass $100 million in official PGA Tour earnings.
Record Single Season
🇺🇸 Scottie Scheffler
Banked roughly $29 million in official money in 2024, a single-season record.
Richest Prize
FedEx Cup — $25M
The season-ending FedEx Cup bonus grew from $10M in 2007 to a $25M top prize.
All-Time Money Leader
🇺🇸 Tiger Woods
Roughly $120.9 million in official career earnings — the most in history.
Total PGA Tour prize money has exploded across the modern era. The leading money winner earned under $1 million a year into the 1980s; by 1988 Curtis Strange broke the $1 million single-season barrier, Vijay Singh cleared $10 million by 2004, and Scottie Scheffler approached $30 million in a single season two decades later. Tiger Woods's career total of roughly $120.9 million remains the benchmark, although today's elevated purses and the FedEx Cup bonus pool mean the next generation is on pace to close the gap far faster.
Tiger Woods is the all-time PGA Tour career earnings leader with roughly $120.9 million in official money. He was the first player to surpass $100 million in career earnings.
Curtis Strange became the first player to win $1 million in a single PGA Tour season in 1988.
Scottie Scheffler banked roughly $29 million in official money in 2024, a PGA Tour single-season record, not counting FedEx Cup bonus money.
The season-ending FedEx Cup bonus grew from a $10 million pool in 2007 to a $25 million top prize for the champion in recent seasons.