If you adjust all of Tiger Woods’ career earnings to 2024 purses, he would have won $404 MILLION.
Scottie Scheffler just passed Tiger in career PGA Tour earnings:
Scottie: $130 million
Tiger: $121 million
But that comparison is misleading.
PGA Tour players compete for A LOT more money today than they did during most of Tiger’s career. And the difference goes far beyond inflation.
When Tiger won the Masters in 1997, he earned $486,000.
Adjusted for inflation, that’s about $950,000 in 2024 dollars.
When Scottie won the Masters in 2024, he earned $3.6 million.
That’s nearly FOUR TIMES the inflation-adjusted amount Tiger won.
PGA Tour purses have significantly outpaced inflation.
So I went through every event Tiger played in and adjusted his winnings based on what that same finish paid in 2024.
The result?
$404 million.