Revealed: The mystery $10m PGA Tour man who quietly out-earned Tiger

Archie Starkey 07 Aug 2025

Tiger Woods looks gutted as he finds out someone earned more than him on the PGA Tour in 2025. — Tiger Woods never earned more than $10 million in a PGA Tour regular season.

The PGA Tour 2025 regular season prize money charts have been confirmed, with Scottie Scheffler once again topping the charts.

He is out in front with $19million in prize money this season, along with two Major titles at the PGA Championship and Open.

The world number one is followed by the second-ranked OWGR player, with Rory McIlroy taking home $16million in event earnings.

The Northern Irishman played just 14 events in a year, where he picked up a long-awaited Masters crown and Career Grand Slam.

We could have seen that coming.

But at number three in the 2025 PGA Tour prize money rankings is a name that no one would have predicted in January.

U.S. Open Champion, the most clutch putt of 2025 at Oakmont? Yep, remember that guy?

J.J. Spaun is the third-highest earner on the PGA Tour this year with his $10million groundbreaking season.

And he has equalled one man who never passed $10 million in annual PGA earnings…

Fellow U.S. Champion – Tiger Woods.

The GOAT and 15-time Major winner reached the $10million annual prize money milestone in 2005, 2007 and 2009, but never made it past that number.

Spaun’s breakout 2025 PGA Tour season is one that he will remember, as will the record books.

Richest PGA Tour events in 2025:

The Californian nearly won the two most lucrative events in the PGA Tour calendar.

Spaun took home the second-biggest winning cheque of the season of $4.3m for his U.S. Open win at Oakmont Country Club.

The 34-year-old also lost to Rory McIlroy in a playoff at the Players Championship and missed out on 2025’s biggest regular season prize of $4.5m at TPC Sawgrass.

McIlroy added to his Players bonus with $4.2m from Augusta National in the season’s third richest event.

Scheffler claimed two Majors, but the $3.42m and $3.1m for the PGA Championship and Open were just the 14th and 15th most lucrative events on the calendar.

PGA Tour Prize Money List 2025: Top 100 earners revealed in full

1. Scottie Scheffler (USA) – $19,202,883 – 4 wins – 16 events

2. Rory McIlroy (NIR) – $16,156,418 – 3 wins – 14 events

3. J.J. Spaun (USA) – $10,142,222 – 1 win – 20 events

4. Sepp Straka (AUT) – $10,014,894 – 2 wins – 20 events

5. Russell Henley (USA) – $9,628,056 – 1 win – 15 events

6. Justin Thomas (USA) – $9,502,662 – 1 win – 17 events

7. Ben Griffin (USA) – $8,333,352 – 2 wins – 25 events

8. Harris English (USA) – $7,734,152 – 1 win – 18 events

9. Keegan Bradley (USA) – $7,184,645 – 1 win – 18 events

10. Collin Morikawa (USA) – $6,996,394 – 0 wins – 16 events

11. Ludvig Åberg (SWE) – $6,708,473 – 1 win – 17 events

12. Andrew Novak (USA) – $6,503,499 – 1 win – 23 events

13. Tommy Fleetwood (ENG) – $6,426,238 – 0 wins – 16 events

14. Maverick McNealy (USA) – $6,312,575 – 0 wins – 21 events

15 Shane Lowry (IRL) – $6,255,194 – 0 wins – 17 events

16. Hideki Matsuyama (JPN) – $5,750,144 – 1 win – 19 events

17. Robert MacIntyre (SCO) – $5,740,191 – 0 wins – 20 events

18. Corey Conners (CAN) – $5,397,936 – 0 wins – 18 events

19. Nick Taylor (CAN) – $4,794,542 – 1 win – 20 events

20. Justin Rose (ENG) – $4,689,476 – 0 wins – 15 events

21. Cameron Young (USA) – $4,671,646 – 1 win – 21 events

22. Brian Harman (USA) – $4,518,743 – 1 win – 20 events

23. Sam Burns (USA) – $4,515,315 – 0 wins – 21 events

24. Viktor Hovland (NOR) – $4,408,073 – 1 win – 15 events

25. Patrick Cantlay (USA) – $4,405,606 – 0 wins – 16 events

26. Sungjae Im (KOR) – $4,254,887 – 0 wins – 24 events

27. Lucas Glover (USA) – $4,235,243 – 0 wins – 20 events

28. Daniel Berger (USA) – $4,057,849 – 0 wins – 19 events

29. Sam Stevens (USA) – $4,050,486 – 0 wins – 25 events

30. Tom Hoge (USA) – $3,957,533 – 0 wins – 22 events

31. Chris Gotterup (USA) – $3,934,837 – 1 win – 24 events

32. Ryan Fox (NZL) – $3,844,647 – 2 wins – 19 events

33. Ryan Gerard (USA) – $3,607,522 – 1 win – 24 events

34. Denny McCarthy (USA) – $3,580,185 – 0 wins – 20 events

35. Jacob Bridgeman (USA) – $3,499,673 – 0 wins – 24 events

36. Thomas Detry (BEL) – $3,491,376 – 1 win – 22 events

37. Michael Kim (USA) – $3,484,531 – 0 wins – 24 events

38. Taylor Pendrith (CAN) – $3,466,952 – 0 wins – 21 events

39. Jason Day (AUS) – $3,418,361 – 0 wins – 14 events

40. Matt Fitzpatrick (ENG) – $3,388,246 – 0 wins – 19 events

41. Akshay Bhatia (USA) – $3,306,854 – 0 wins – 21 events

42. Si Woo Kim (KOR) – $3,174,844 – 0 wins – 26 events

43. Brian Campbell (USA) – $3,174,659 – 2 wins – 20 events

44. Aaron Rai (ENG) – $3,088,435 – 0 wins – 20 events

45. Jordan Spieth (USA) – $3,075,160 – 0 wins – 18 events

46. Min Woo Lee (AUS) – $3,068,086 – 1 win – 16 events

47. Xander Schauffele (USA) – $3,050,200 – 0 wins – 13 events

48. Jake Knapp (USA) – $2,968,801 – 0 wins – 22 events

49. Aldrich Potgieter (ZAF) – $2,950,266 – 0 wins – 17 events

50. Harry Hall (ENG) – $2,890,934 – 0 wins – 22 events

51. Wyndham Clark (USA) – $2,818,592 – 0 wins – 21 events

52. Max Greyserman (USA) – $2,809,758 – 0 wins – 24 events

53. Bud Cauley (USA) – $2,803,843 – 0 wins – 18 events

54. Joe Highsmith (USA) – $2,764,819 – 0 wins – 21 events

55. J.T. Poston (USA) – $2,698,416 – 0 wins – 22 events

56. Kurt Kitayama (USA) – $2,586,406 – 1 win – 20 events

57. Tony Finau (USA) – $2,508,893 – 0 wins – 19 events

58. Stephan Jaeger (DEU) – $2,477,901 – 0 wins – 22 events

59. Chris Kirk (USA) – $2,438,050 – 0 wins – 21 events

60. Davis Riley (USA) – $2,357,691 – 0 wins – 24 events

61. Jhonattan Vegas (VEN) – $2,354,198 – 0 wins – 19 events

62. Patrick Rodgers (USA) – $2,274,502 – 0 wins – 24 events

63. Davis Thompson (USA) – $2,258,359 – 0 wins – 23 events

64. Byeong Hun An (KOR) – $2,250,267 – 0 wins – 23 events

65. Mackenzie Hughes (CAN) – $2,225,776 – 0 wins – 22 events

66. Nico Echavarria (COL) – $2,151,140 – 0 wins – 21 events

67. Rickie Fowler (USA) – $2,126,620 – 0 wins – 19 events

68. Kevin Yu (TWN) – $2,107,134 – 0 wins – 23 events

69. Erik van Rooyen (ZAF) – $2,085,816 – 0 wins – 22 events

70. Cam Davis (AUS) – $2,043,945 – 0 wins – 22 events

71. Christiaan Bezuidenhout (ZAF) – $2,018,690 – 0 wins – 23 events

72. Gary Woodland (USA) – $1,957,021 – 0 wins – 20 events

73. Eric Cole (USA) – $1,919,782 – 0 wins – 26 events

74. Emiliano Grillo (ARG) – $1,905,143 – 0 wins – 22 events

75. Matt McCarty (USA) – $1,887,582 – 0 wins – 23 events

76. Matthias Schmid (DEU) – $1,879,317 – 0 wins – 22 events

77. Nicolai Højgaard (DNK) – $1,758,757 – 0 wins – 15 events

78. Adam Scott (AUS) – $1,749,484 – 0 wins – 17 events

79. Alex Smalley (USA) – $1,745,773 – 0 wins – 22 events

80. Keith Mitchell (USA) – $1,695,785 – 0 wins – 20 events

81. Mark Hubbard (USA) – $1,657,081 – 0 wins – 22 events

82. Ryo Hisatsune (JPN) – $1,653,102 – 0 wins – 23 events

83. Rasmus Højgaard (DNK) – $1,646,723 – 0 wins – 18 events

84. Kevin Roy (USA) – $1,577,334 – 0 wins – 22 events

85. Sami Välimäki (FIN) – $1,498,501 – 0 wins – 20 events

86. Austin Eckroat (USA) – $1,463,075 – 0 wins – 23 events

87. Mac Meissner (USA) – $1,444,313 – 0 wins – 22 events

88. Karl Vilips (AUS) – $1,404,749 – 1 win – 17 events

89. William Mouw (USA) – $1,383,834 – 1 win – 20 events

90. Beau Hossler (USA) – $1,376,862 – 0 wins – 22 events

91. Michael Thorbjornsen (USA) – $1,364,039 – 0 wins – 20 events

92. Taylor Moore (USA) – $1,334,344 – 0 wins – 20 events

93. Billy Horschel (USA) – $1,333,554 – 0 wins – 12 events

94. Matt Wallace (ENG) – $1,329,160 – 0 wins – 20 events

95. Tom Kim (KOR) – $1,329,009 – 0 wins – 20 events

96. David Lipsky (USA) – $1,312,409 – 0 wins – 23 events

97. Max McGreevy (USA) – $1,294,281 – 0 wins – 24 events

98. Alex Noren (SWE) – $1,293,000 – 0 wins – 9 events

99. Max Homa (USA) – $1,279,333 – 0 wins – 20 events

100. Patrick Fishburn (USA) – $1,275,844 – 0 wins – 20 events