Despite His Miserable Play, Tiger Woods Still Leads PGA Tour Earnings This Year
Tiger Woods is far from being the same golfer he was in the rounds he played leading up to the 2008 U.S. Open Championship at Torrey Pines. There, Tiger captured his most recent major championship by beating Rocco Mediate on the 19th hole of a playoff. To date, that’s the last major Tiger won, giving him 14 total.
Following the win, he withdrew for the rest of the 2008 PGA season to have knee surgery to repair a torn ligament in his left leg. After that, well, you know what happened if you watched any news in 2009, because the pundits talked about Tiger cheating on his wife with porn stars and about his sex addiction for a least a month after the scandal broke on Thanksgiving morning.
Flash forward to 2015, and the best major finish that Tiger has put up since he walked away from the game in the wake of his divorce is a second place finish at the 2009 PGA Championship. He also has a third place finish, four fourth place finishes, and three sixth place efforts. He’s rarely cracked the top 10, amassing seven combined missed cuts and non-entry in majors. The most came last year, where the Open Championship was the only major he finished. (He finished 69th, though. TFM.)
Despite his extremely lackluster play and horrible results in 2014, Tiger still made more than anyone you will ever know last year. The dude made only FIVE CUTS ALL SEASON and still raked in $55 million.
Of course, Tiger being Tiger these days, only $610,775 of those earnings were from PGA Tour winnings. That perfectly represents just how far he’s fallen from winning million dollar green jackets. That’s right, playing golf last year actually only accounted for about 1.2 percent of Tiger’s 2014 earnings — and he still grossed the most on tour, ousting Mickelson, who came in second by some $4 million.
This is the same guy who just missed the cut at the Waste Management Phoenix Open and withdrew from the Farmers Insurance Open last weekend due to injury so that he could go home and “rest.” It’s unbelievable.
*cue the live look-in at Tiger’s house*
Man, it must be nice to land endorsements like Nike as a child prodigy..
[via Golf Digest]
Image via YouTube
Minimal effort translating to maximum reward. TFM
11 years ago at 10:28 amDespite His Miserable Articles, Helmet Stickers Still Leads TFM with Quantity of Article Payments This Year.
11 years ago at 10:28 amKind of crazy to think Tiger hasn’t won a major since I was in middle school.
11 years ago at 10:37 amGood try, but you managed to leave out the fact that Tiger and Rocco played an 18 hole playoff prior to the first hole of the sudden death playoff. Read a book.
11 years ago at 10:39 amI know. I was there, moron.
11 years ago at 11:05 amPics or you were not.
11 years ago at 11:09 amTiger actually made less than that. Per ESPN in ’14 he made $108.275.25. And $102,500 in ’15. Either way only his ego was hurt in Phoenix.
11 years ago at 10:45 amIt’s called off the course sponsors
11 years ago at 10:50 amNo shit. Did you read?
11 years ago at 12:14 pm“Of course, Tiger being Tiger these days, only $610,775 of those earnings were from PGA Tour winnings.”
With the way you write it’s clear your cap exceeds 20
11 years ago at 10:47 amHis game reminds me of the slump I went through before I made a run at the 96 US Open
11 years ago at 10:51 amBubba 2015 #Masters
11 years ago at 2:07 pm