{"id":790238,"date":"2026-07-28T23:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T23:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/790238\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T23:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T23:31:14","slug":"scottie-scheffler-circling-tiger-woods-on-career-money-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/790238\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler circling Tiger Woods on career money list"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tiger Woods went to the top of the PGA Tour career money list<\/a> when he was runner-up at Torrey Pines on Feb. 13, 2000, and he has stayed there ever since. His last check for finishing last at the 2024 Masters ($44,400) pushed his career earnings to $120,999,166.<\/p>\n

Being passed is inevitable and now is in clear view. It\u2019s just a matter of who tops him first.<\/p>\n

Rory McIlroy, who lost in the quarterfinals of the 2009 Match Play in his PGA Tour debut, is second on the list at $116,446,772. Scottie Scheffler, who cashed his first PGA Tour check in 2018, moved to $116,364,411 with his runner-up finish in the 3M Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That leaves both of them just over $4 million away from Woods coming into the lucrative FedEx Cup postseason<\/a> \u2014 $20 million purses at two playoff events, and the Tour Championship with its $40 million bonus pool that now counts as official money.<\/p>\n

Scheffler became the third player in history to earn nine figures<\/a> in his career earlier this year, when he won the American Express. Since then, the world\u2019s top-ranked player has finished second five times.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a year-by-year breakdown of Scheffler\u2019s winnings (through the 3M Open):<\/p>\n

2026: 16,911,275 (as of July 28)2025:$27,659,5502024:$29,228,3572022-23:$21,014,3422021-22:$14,046,910<\/p>\n

Cameron Young and Matt Fitzpatrick are No. 2 and No. 3, respectively, in official prize money won this year. Both sit more than $2 million behind Scheffler despite having more tournaments wins (Young, 2; Fitzpatrick, 3) in 2026. <\/p>\n

Rounding out the top 5 on the career earnings list are Phil Mickelson ($96,727,968) and Justin Rose ($78,589,373). <\/p>\n

Rose surpassed Dustin Johnson for No. 5 all time earlier this year. The 2026 Torrey Pines winner has raked in $4,853,356 this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods went to the top of the PGA Tour career money list when he was runner-up at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-790238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}