Tiger Woods injured

$25,000 per year, correct?

 

Yeah, per year. I better fix that.

 

Winnings are part of it, but so is endorsement money. Even marginal players on the tour can have good to strong endorsement money coming in

 

I’m not sure why this has become an argument. Yes, $540,000 is a lot of money — for the winner. If you finished down in the field, you made enough to pay all your expenses and probably a little real income. If you missed the cut, nothing.

I have no idea what the stats say about how many cuts are made, on average, but certainly the guys low on the money list were playing to support their families. When Tiger came along — and purses went up — even those guys started doing very well.

 

I thought the original significant plus up was in the Arnie - Jack days.

I recall Hogan (?) and others piling their clubs in one car and carpooling to the next event. THAT was really scratching out a living.

 

One time Chip Beck won and after being presented a check for $360,000 said: “Wow. That’s more than most people make in two or three years.”

 

Here is a bunch of guys who have made $10,000,000 in career earnings without ever winning a PGA tour event.
You won’t believe how many golfers have earned $10 million on the PGA Tour without winning an event

Their kids should be sending Tiger Woods a christmas card every year for the rest of their life.

 

In 1995, Greg Norman led the money list at $1.654 million. Mark O'Meara was 10th at $914,000. The Tour average was $175,211.

In '97, Woods hit the top of the list for the first time at $2.066 million. Tom Lehman was 19th at $960,000. Average was $223,748.

In '98, David Duval topped the money list at $2.591 million. The first player under $1 million was No. 27 Jeff Maggert. Average $274,000.

By 1999, Tiger's Tour-leading total was up to $6.616 million. Duval was second at $3.641. The average had jumped to $390,919.

The next year, the top money winner (Woods) won $9.188 million, followed by Mickelson at $4.746 million. The top 15 all banked $2 million or more. You have to go down to Brad Faxon at No. 46 to get below $1 million. The Tour average skyrocketed to $609,994. That's a 56 percent increase.

By 2007, Tiger won $10.867 million, Phil won $5.819 million and the Tour average was more than $1 million.

You have to go down to Briny Baird at No. 100 to get to a guy making less than a mill.

Think Tiger's success had nothing to do with that?

 

Some dude named Briny Baird was A. on the PGA Tour and B. earned just less than $1m in a single season!?!

 

Briny Baird has more than $13 million in career earnings.

 

This sentence just blew me the fuck away.