How much does Tiger Woods earn per shot?
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. |
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November 2010
Simon Bale
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