Tiger Woods went to the top of the PGA Tour career money list 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.
Being passed is inevitable and now is in clear view. It’s just a matter of who tops him first.
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.
That leaves both of them just over $4 million away from Woods coming into the lucrative FedEx Cup postseason — $20 million purses at two playoff events, and the Tour Championship with its $40 million bonus pool that now counts as official money.
Scheffler became the third player in history to earn nine figures in their career earlier this year, when he won the American Express. Since then, the world’s top-ranked player has finished second five times.
Here’s a year-by-year breakdown of Scheffler’s winnings (through the 3M Open):
- 2026: 16,911,275 (as of July 28)
- 2025:$27,659,550
- 2024:$29,228,357
- 2022-23:$21,014,342
- 2021-22:$14,046,910
Cameron Young and Matt Fitzpatrick are No. 2 and No. 3, respectively, in prize money won this year. Both sit more than $2 million behind Scheffler despite having more tournaments wins (Young, 2; Fitzpatrick, 3) in 2026.
Rounding out the top 5 on the career earnings list are Phil Mickelson ($96,727,968) and Justin Rose ($78,589,373).
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.