The 12 Golfers Who’ve Earned The Most Money Playing On The PGA Tour

The PGA Tour has a history stretching back close to a century, and while LIV Golf has done what it can to take some wind out of its sails, it remains the gold standard for golf and the premier organization for the best players on the planet.

The average golfer on the PGA Tour makes around $1.5 million a year, but it can be a very, very lucrative venture if you routinely end up near the top (or at the top) of the leaderboard—a feat the men who can brag about having the highest career earnings of all-time are pretty familiar with.

Before we kick things off, I should note this list doesn’t account for bonuses stemming from the Player Impact Program or the massive bags guys who defected to LIV Golf got in return.

Most of the players are also currently active on the PGA Tour (indicated with an asterisk), so this accounts for their career earnings as of the end of the 2025 WM Phoenix Open.

1. Tiger Woods*: $120,999,166

You won’t be shocked to learn the man who’s tied with Sam Sneed for the most tournament victories in PGA Tour history at 82—not to mention the most famous and dominant golfer to ever live—leads the pack here.

Tiger has made much, much more than $120 million thanks to the many lucrative endorsement deals he’s amassed over the decades, but the G.O.A.T. is also the G.O.A.T. on the all-time money list—at least for now.

2. Phil Mickelson: $96,685,635

We’ve got our first LIV Golf defector courtesy of Phil Mickelson, who had 45 wins on the PGA Tour before becoming the first big name to take the leap when he was poached by the upstart league that played its first season in 2022.

Lefty also came in second on 38 occasions and finished in the Top 10 a grand total of 198 times, and stats like those are more than enough to become one of the richest golfers to ever play the game (a fortune that would probably be larger if not for the well-documented gambling habit Mickelson was eventually able to put behind him).

3. Rory McIlroy*: $94,589,348

Tiger is technically active, but he’s firmly in the twilight of his career. You could also argue Rory McIlroy’s best days are behind him, but the man who currently occupies the third spot on the Official World Golf Ranking is certainly no slouch.

The Northern Irishman currently has 27 PGA Tour victories under his belt following his most recent win at Pebble Beach, and it seems safe to assume he’ll be surpassing Mickelson for the silver medal in the very near future.

It’s also not a stretch to suggest the 35-year-old could end up surpassing Tiger at the top of this list (although there’s another guy we’ll get to in a second who has a chance at outshining both of them when everything is said and done).

4. Dustin Johnson: $75,557,026

Dustin Johnson is the only other LIV Golfer on this list aside from Mickelson, and he was one of the other notable names it was able to land during its inaugural campaign.

Prior to that point, D.J. had 24 PGA Tour wins (including a victory at the FedEx Championship in 2020) and finished in the Top 10 in 116 of the 315 tournaments he competed in.

However, as was the case with Mickelson, it’s only a matter of time until he drops a spot courtesy of…

5. Scottie Scheffler*: $72,397,784

Scottie Scheffler has held onto the No. 1 spot on the OWGR for close to 125 weeks and shows no sign of losing it anytime soon based on how dominant his play has been over the past few years.

The 27-year-old has 13 wins, but what’s especially impressive is the fact that he’s won around 10% of the tournaments he’s played in since joining the PGA Tour in 2020.

He’s obviously benefitted from the amount of money that’s currently up for grabs thanks to the purse sizes that have been increased due in no small part to the LIV Golf rift, and while he has plenty of work to do when it comes to catching Tiger, it doesn’t seem out of reach due to his impressive consistency.

6. Jim Furyk: $71,507,269

There’s no one on this list with a more unorthodox swing than Jim Furyk, but he didn’t let it stop him from cleaning up during his time on the PGA Tour.

Furyk joined the circuit in 1994 and played in 636 tournaments before taking his talents to the Champions Tour in 2020. He won 17 events but also had 188 Top 10 finishes (including 31 second-place efforts), and as you can see, those successes added up over the decades.

7. Vijay Singh: $71,281,216

You kind of have to feel for Vijay Singh, who occupied the top spot in the OWGR rankings for 32 weeks between 2004 and 2005 but ended up playing second fiddle to Tiger for the bulk of his career.

However, he still managed to do pretty well for himself by amassing 34 wins, 28 runner-ups, and 185 Top 10s in the 638 tournaments he played in before eventually pivoting to the Legends Tour he still plays on now that he’s in his early 60s.

8. Adam Scott*: $68,406,437

Adam Scott has been grinding on the PGA Tour for over 20 years, and while he may”only” have 13 wins, he’s certainly fared pretty well with the help of the 16 second-place and 11 third-place showings that help comprise the 115 Top 10 finishes he’s compiled.

He may be past his prime, but the 44-year-old will have more than enough dough to fall back on whenever he decides to enter a well-earned retirement.

9. Justin Rose*: $66,038,042

Justin Rose joined the PGA Tour in 2004 (a year after Scott), and he’s also a testament to the amount of cash a player can accumulate if they’re able to hang for more than two decades.

The Englishman’s track record is fairly similar to his Australian colleague, as he has 11 wins, 16 runner-up performances, 15 where he finished third, and a total of 113 in the Top 10.

10. Jordan Spieth*: $63,190,470

Jordan Spieth made his PGA Tour debut in 2013 but really made a name for himself a couple of years later with five victories, including wins at The Masters, the U.S. Open, and The Tour Championship.

The 31-year-old has fallen off a bit in recent years and is currently in search of his first win since conquering the field at the RBC Heritage in 2022—the 13th victory of a career where he’s finished in the Top 10 90 times.

11. Jason Day*: $62,152,143

We’ve got yet another golfer with 13 wins on the PGA Tour courtesy of Jason Day, who’s competed in more than 358 tournaments since 2008 while notching Top 10 finishes in 96 of them.

He hasn’t had a win since the AT&T Byron Nelson in 2023, but he proved he can still compete for one with a third-place finish at The American Express in January.

12. Justin Thomas*: $61,186,998

We’ll close things out with Justin Thomas, who’s been on the PGA Tour since 2015 and has 15 wins and 83 Top 10 finishes in the nearly 250 events he’s played over the past decade.