The 12 PGA Tour Golfers Who’ve Made The Most Money Without Ever Winning A Tournament

Anyone who’s willingly subjected themselves to a round of golf knows it’s an incredibly difficult sport, and playing it makes you respect the amount of talent you need to possess to make a living on the PGA Tour. However, there are plenty of people who’ve managed to do exactly that despite their inability to get a win while competing alongside the best golfers on the planet.

It goes without saying that every single person who competes in a PGA Tour event is hoping to walk away with a victory, but you can still do very well for yourself if you’re able to make the cut on a consistent basis.

All of the golfers on this list have been able to do that while racking up millions of dollars on the PGA Tour. However, they also have another thing in common: the inability to get over the hump and say they know what it’s like to win a tournment on the circuit.

Before we dive in, these numbers reflect the current state of affairs in the wake of the 2025 Travelers Championship, and as you may have guessed, the results of that event served as the onus for this article thanks to the man who we’ll get to in a bit.

12. Bud Cauley: $12,420,373

Career Events: 216

Bud Cauley decided to abandon his amateur status after wrapping up his junior year at Alabama in 2011 and came pretty hot out of the gate with a string of solid finishes that allowed him to bypass Q School and head directly to the PGA Tour the following year.

He got his first and only win as a pro on what is now the Korn Ferry Tour in 2014. He’s made the cut in 137 of the PGA Tour events he’s played in but is still in search of both his first win and first second-place finish (he’s ended up in third on four different occasions—most recently at the Charles Schwab Championship in 2025).

11. Jeff Overton: $12,790,635

Career Events: 302

It’s been close to two decades since Jeff Overton earned a spot on the PGA Tour, but the 42-year-old has still failed to get a win since getting his card in 2006.

2010 marked the peak of his career, as he finished in second place in three events and ended up in the Top 25 in ten of the 18 events where he made the cut.

However, Overton has failed to earn the right to play the weekend in all ten of the PGA Tour tournaments he’s competed in since 2017.

10. Beau Hossler: $13,205,772

Career Events: 220

Beau Hossler fared well enough on the Korn Ferry Tour to make the leap to the PGA Tour in 2018, and he ended up in a playoff with Ian Poulter at the Houston Open that year before falling on the first hole.

He suffered the same fate at the hands of Kevin Yu at the Sanderson Farms Championship, and those losses are responsible for half of the second-place finishes he’s had in his ongoing quest to get a PGA Tour victory.

9. Briny Baird: $13,251,178

Career Events: 379

Briny Baird is the first person on this list who has officially accepted the fact that he’ll never have a win on the PGA Tour, as the man who got his card in 1999 decided to leave golf behind after the season that came to an end in 2014 due to a back injury.

He also had a lone Korn Ferry win, and while he was a runner-up on six separate occasions, that was the closest he ever got to a victory during a PGA Tour career where he made the cut 243 times.

8. Brian Davis

Career Events: 386

Brian Davis had two international wins in 2000 and 2004 (he also ended up in a tie for sixth at The British Open in 2003) before turning his attention to the PGA Tour in 2005.

The 50-year-old Englishman debuted on the Champions circuit in 2024 following a lengthy PGA Tour career where he ended up in a tie for second five times.

The closest he ever got to a win was at the Verizon Heritage in 2010, but he called a costly two-stroke penalty on himself after hitting a loose reed in his backswing during the playoff that Jim Furyk subsequently won.

7. Alex Noren

Career Events: 188

Alex Noren had plenty of success in international events before joining the PGA Tour in 2018, as he had 11 wins under his belt before getting his card.

Unfortunately, he’s been unable to recapture that magic while going head-to-head with the best golfers on the planet on a regular basis.

As was the case with Davis, the Swede ended up in a tie for sixth at The Open in 2017, but his peak on the PGA Tour has been three second-place finishes—including a loss in a playoff that also featured Ryan Palmer and eventual winner Jason Day at the Farmers Insurance Open in 2018.

6. Cameron Tringale: $17,310,004

Career Events: 338

Cameron Tringale appeared in his first PGA Tour tournament as an amateur at the U.S. Open in 2009 (he failed to make the cut) before becoming a permanent fixture the following year.

He technically got a win while playing alongside Jason Day at the Franklin Templeton Shootout in 2015, but he never checked that box as a lone individual.

He had four second-place finishes on the PGA Tour before defecting to LIV Golf in 2022, and it seems like he’s accepted the fact that a victory with the former isn’t in the cards.

5. Patrick Rodgers: $17,797,582

Career Events: 299

Patrick Rodgers joined the PGA Tour as a “Special Temporary Member” in 2015 before earning the card he’s managed to retain ever since.

He’s finished in second in four different tournaments, and he had to chance to win two of those in a playoff: Charles Howell III edged him out at The RSM Classic in 2018, while he fell to Akshay Bhatia at the Barracuda Championship in 2023.

4. Cameron Young

Career Events: 91

Cameron Young is a relative newcomer who earned Rookie of the Year honors during the 2020-21 PGA Tour season, and while he has plenty of time to get his first win, he’s still looking for it.

The fact that he’s in fourth place on this list despite playing in less than 100 PGA Tour tournaments really tells you all you need to know about his promise, as the two-time Korn Ferry Tour winner has also posted a Top 10 finish in all four majors.

That included a runner-up showing at The British Open in 2022, which is one of the seven times the 28-year-old has come in second so far.

3. Denny McCarthy

Career Events: 205

Denny McCarthy has thrived off the consistent play that’s allowed him to make the cut in around 71% of the PGA Tour events he’s played in (he got his card in 2018).

He also finished in a tie for seventh at the U.S. Open in 2022 and ended up in a tie for eighth at the PGA Championship in 2025, He only has a couple of second-place finishes to his name, the 32-year-hold has repeatedly shown he can hang by ending up in the Top 10 in 39 tournmanets.

2. Byeong Hun An

Career Events: 220

Byeong Hun An had three international wins before joining the PGA Tour in 2017, and he added a fourth with a victory at the Genesis Championship in his native South Korea in 2024.

He’s also managed to hold his own in the world’s premier golf league with five runners-up finishes, 15 in the Top 5, and 29 in the Top 10.

He’s also come up short in a three-man playoff three times, with the most recent close call coming at the Sony Open where Grayson Murray ultimately reigned supreme in 2024.

1. Tommy Fleetwood

Career Events: 189 

As promised, we’re capping things off with the onus for this list: Tommy Fleetwood, who had the lead heading into the final round of the 2025 Travelers Championship before Keegan Bradley bested him by a stroke.

That marked the sixth time Fleetwood has come in second since joining the PGA Tour in 2018. Two of those came at majors—the 2018 U.S. Open and 2019 British Open—and he’s also finished in a tie for third at The Masters in 2024 and a tie for fifth at the PGA Championship in 2022.

It seems like it’s only a matter of time until the 34-year-old gets a PGA Tour victory, but it continues to elude him.