PGA Tour Career Money List Leaders

Below are the all-time leaders in earnings on the PGA Tour, the tour's career money list. See the notes at the bottom on how the PGA Tour uses its career money leaders list for exemptions.

(Related article: PGA Tour's yearly money leaders)

Top 50 on the PGA Tour Career Money List

1. Tiger Woods, $120,999,166
2. Scottie Scheffler, $119,964,411
3. Rory McIlroy, $116,488,372
4. Justin Rose, $78,675,373
5. Justin Thomas, $74,256,294
6. Adam Scott, $73,908,596
7. Jim Furyk, $71,507,269
8. Vijay Singh, $71,312,738
9. Xander Schauffele, $69,410,734
10. Jordan Spieth, $69,044,203
11. Hideki Matsuyama, $67,598,774
12. Jason Day, $66,736,267
13. Matt Kuchar, $62,078,202
14. Patrick Cantlay, $61,668,854
15. Rickie Fowler, $59,007,971
16. Keegan Bradley, $58,350,061
17. Russell Henley, $52,720,595
18. Collin Morikawa, $51,376,766
19. Tommy Fleetwood, $50,415,274
20. Zach Johnson, $50,249,848
21. Ernie Els, $49,385,600
22. Tony Finau, $47,258,874
23. Webb Simpson, $46,346,733
24. Brian Harman, $46,112,078
25. Brooks Koepka, $45,434,400
26. Davis Love III, $44,959,243
27. Steve Stricker, $44,936,354
28. Matt Fitzpatrick, $43,914,938
29. Stewart Cink, $43,905,340
30. Viktor Hovland, $43,502,071
31. Sam Burns, $43,475,145
32. Brandt Snedeker, $43,340,393
33. Lucas Glover, $43,111,000
34. Billy Horschel, $43,066,095
35. Harris English, $43,007,198
36. David Toms, $41,901,709
37. Gary Woodland, $40,793,545
38. Si Woo Kim, $40,509,184
39. Wyndham Clark, $40,100,249
40. Cameron Young, $39,063,078
41. Sungjae Im, $38,172,481
42. Kevin Na, $37,819,638
43. Luke Donald, $37,738,664
44. Rory Sabbatini, $36,119,041
45. Charley Hoffman, $36,023,644
46. Chris Kirk, $35,929,707
47. Ryan Moore, $34,442,506
48. Justin Leonard, $33,926,343
49. Ryan Palmer, $33,817,109
50. Corey Conners, $33,369,429

This Top 50 is updated multiple times throughout the year. On PGATour.com, the tour's stats section includes a weekly updated career money list that extends into the 600s.

How the Career Money List Matters in PGA Tour Eligibility

Does the career money list have any important role to play for current PGA Tour players? Yes — some players are able to retain their playing privileges by virtue of appearing on the list above.

There are two exemption categories relating to the career money list: Top 25 All-Time and Top 50 All-Time. Say there's a player, Golfer X, who has a bad season and loses his tour card. But he's No. 23 on the career money list. He can claim the Top 25 All-Time exemption and keep his tour membership for another year. Same for a golfer who is, say, No. 46: that golfer could claim the Top 50 career earnings exemption to keep his playing card, if need be.

And yes, the same golfer can use both exemptions. David Duval did that in back-to-back years: He used the Top 25 exemption first; the next season, he had fallen out of the Top 25 but was still in the Top 50, so he was able to use that one.

The catch is that each of these exemptions can only be used once.

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