Using the official Tour statistics, we have reconstituted Tiger's entire professional career on the PGA Tour to show his prize money earnings and number of strokes played.
Although hobbling on one leg for much of a short and painful season in 2008, he managed to limp away with a cool $4,191 for every shot hit, whether it was a 300+ yard drive or a 3 inch tap in. His career average is a more modest $1,494 per shot, that's $103,414 per round - and he doesn't even have to buy his own golf balls...
Year
Total prize money(1)
Rounds
Shots
Stroke average
Money per shot
Total
$92,862,539
898
62 152
69,21
$1 494,12
2010
2009
$10,508,163
62
4 268
68.84
$2,462.08
2008
$5,775,000
20
1 378
68.90
$4,190.86
2007
$10,867,052
60
4 146
69.10
$2,621.09
2006
$9,941,563
52
3 574
68.73
$2,781.63
2005
$10,628,024
74
5 114
69.11
$2,078.22
2004
$5,365,472
72
5 017
69.68
$1,069.46
2003
$6,673,413
68
4 718
69.38
$1,414.46
2002
$6,912,625
68
4 692
69.00
$1,473.28
2001
$5,687,777
76
5 234
68.87
$1,086.70
2000
$9,188,321
76
5 181
68.17
$1,773.46
1999
$6,616,585
75
5 217
69.56
$1,268.27
1998
$1,841,117
73
5 117
70.10
$359.80
1997
$2,066,833
81
5 650
69.75
$365.81
1996
$790,594
41
2 846
69.41
$277.79
(1) Note: these figures are regular tournament prize money only and do not include Tiger's FedEx Cup bonus earnings in 2007-9. If these are factored in, he earned:
- $5,033 per shot in 2007, equivalent to $347,784 per round that year
- $4,270 per shot in 2008
- $4,805 per shot in 2009
and $1,818 over his whole career.
