How Much Has Tiger Woods Won For Every Career Shot?

The millions of dollars/euros won by top players around the world have been well documented in recent weeks with the official tour seasons winding down for another year. As we previously reported, a total of 146 players won at least $1 million in prize money during the 2016-17 season between the U.S. PGA Tour and European Tour, plus a further 17 on the U.S. LPGA Tour.

When it comes to career totals, Tiger Woods still leads the way in spite of not having won any prizemoney since 2016: more than $110 million over the past two decades (Phil Mickelson is a distant second with just over $84 million).

For one dedicated statistician, however, there is an even more illuminating figure. Clearly with plenty of spare time on his hands, David McSweeney, co-creator of the advice website noobnoom.com, decided to work out how much Woods and the current top-10 in the world rankings have earned per shot during their PGA Tour careers.

Of the latter, Jordan Spieth (who has already won more than $35 million on the PGA Tour in his short career) leads the way with $1,104 per shot, followed by Rory McIlroy ($1 million more than Spieth in U.S. career prizemoney) with $1,073, Jon Rahm ($875), Dustin Johnson ($859), Hideki Matsuyama ($775), Justin Thomas ($749), Henrik Stenson ($631), Brooks Koepka ($629), Rickie Fowler ($584) and Justin Rose ($538).

Five of them (Johnson, Thomas, Rahm, Matsuyama and Koepka) had their highest money-per-shot average in 2017; while Spieth had his highest average ($1,897) during the 2015 campaign (when he won two majors). McIlroy had the highest individual season of anyone on the list in 2012 when he made $2,140 per shot.

And Tiger? According to McSweeney, despite starting his career before the era of $1 million winner's cheques, Woods has earned $1,282 for every single shot he has hit in an official PGA Tour event during his 21-year career. His peak was $4,191 per shot in 2008 when he won four times in six starts, including the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, the last (at least for the time being) of his 14 major titles.