The Top 10 Professional Richest Golfers of All Time
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Top 10 Richest Golfers of All time
Golf is currently the fourth richest sport on the planet. Being one of the richest sports in the world, the prizes for winning torus are equally high, and can skyrocket a player’s net worth.
The likes of Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus have won an astonishing amount of money by their fantastic play. Find out below the Top 10 richest golfers of all time.
Top 10 Richest Golfers of All Time
10. Ernie Els
Net Worth: $85 million
Ernie Els is a South African pro golfer and former world no. 1 is also nicknamed ‘the big easy’ in the gold world due to his stature. Els is one of the six golfers who has won the U.S. Open and The Open Championship twice.
Off the course, Els has a design company as well and has even designed the Els Golf Club in Dubai. Els has accumulated his net worth over the years by winning several pro golf tours.
9. Jordan Spieth
Net Worth: $100 million
At the age of just 25, Jordan Spieth has picked up quite a few achievements already. Spieth is a 3 time major tour winner and in 2018 he was one of the top 25 highest paid athletes of the year.
Spieth is the second youngest golfer behind Woods to win the Masters Tournament and tied with the latter for the 72 hole record in the same. He is the youngest US Open champion since Bobby Jones in 1923. Jordan has been endorsed by several brands such as Coca-Cola, Wheaties and Rolex.
8. Fred Couples
Net Worth: $120 million
Fred Couples, a professional American golfer has competed on the PGA Tour and the PGA Tour Champions. The former world no. 1 has won a total of 64 professional tours over the span of his career. He has notably won the Master’s tournament in 1992 and the Player’s championship in 1984 and 1996.
Couples has received the name ‘broom broom’ for his long accurate driving ability off the tee. He has been PGA Player of the Year for 2 years in a row in 1991 and 1992. He has been endorsed by Jaguar, Cadillac, ECCO and Bridgestone in the past.
7. Rory McIlroy
Net Worth: $130 million
Rory McIlroy is a professional golfer from Northern Ireland and is a member of the European and PGA tours. The former world no 1 has spent an impressive 100 weeks at the top of the table and recently returned to that ranking in early 2020. With Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods he is the third golfer to win 4 major titles under the age of 25.
Rory turned pro at the age of 17 and at the age of only 22, he became the youngest player ever to reach €10 million in career earnings on the European Tour. His current sponsors are TaylorMade, Nike, NBC Sports, Omega and Optum.
6. Gary Player
Net Worth: $250 million
Hailing from South Africa, Gary Player is a retired golfer and is considered to be one of the greatest of all time. During his impressive career, Player won 9 major championships on regular tour and 9 major championships on Champion tour. He became the only non-American to win all four majors in a career, known as the career Grand Slam.
He has won over 150 professional tournaments over his career of seven decades. Player also started the Player Foundation, which has a primary objective of promoting underprivileged education around the world. He recently signed on as PXG’s latest ambassador.
5. Greg Norman
Net Worth: $300 million
Greg Norman is a retired pro golfer hailing from Australia. Norman spent 331 weeks as the world no. 1 golfer on the Official Golf Standing in the 1980s and 1990s. He was inducted into the world Golf Hall Of Fame by the highest vote percentage for any golfer, 80%. Norman has earned the nickname of the Great White Shark for his aggressive play style, which he received after the 1981 Masters.
He is the chairman and CEO of the Greg Norman Company, a global corporation with a portfolio of companies in fields including interior design and apparel.
4. Jack Nicklaus
Net Worth: $320 Million
Jack Nicklaus, also know as the Golden Bear, is widely considered to be the greatest golfer of all time. Over 25 years he won 18 major championships, the most of any till now. Nicklaus focused on major championships, and competed in 164 tournaments, the most of any player ever. Nicklaus turned pro at the age of 21 in 1961.
Nicklaus won nine more major championships, overtook Bobby Jones’ record of 13 majors, and became the first player to complete double and triple career grand slams. Today, Nicklaus heads the Nicklaus Design, one of the largest golf course design companies in the world
3. Phil Mickelson
Net Worth: $400 million
Phil Mickelson is a retired American golfer who has won 45 events on the PGA Tour. He has won 3 masters titles, 2 PGA Championships and one Open Championship. He won the 2021 PGA Champion and subsequently became the oldest golfer to win a major championships at the age of 50 years, 11 months and 7 days old.
Mickelson is one of the 17 golfers in history to win 3 of the 4 majors, and has claimed the runner up title at the US Open 6 times. Nicknamed the Lefty, he is known for his left hang swing, having learned it by mirroring his right-handed father’s swing. He is endorsed by Amgen, Callaway Golf, Heineken N.V., and Rolex.
2. Arnold Palmer
Net Worth: $700 million
Another golfer who is regarded as the greatest of all time, Arnold Palmer won numerous events on the PGA Tour and PGA Champion Tour. Nicknamed ‘the King’, Palmer was considered a pioneer in golf and the first superstar of the sports television age in the 1950s.
Palmer along with Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player were considered to be the “Big Three” in golf, and are credited with popularizing and commercializing the sport around the world. He is fifth on the Tour’s all-time victory list, winning more than 62 PGA Tour titles from 1955 to 1973.
1. Tiger Woods
Net Worth: $800 Million
Tiger Woods is one of the biggest names in golf and is considered one of the greatest golfers of all times and one of the most famous athletes ever. Woods turned professional at the age of 20 in 1996 and reached world no. 1 less than a year after doing so. He has been the number one player in the world for the most consecutive weeks and for the greatest total number of weeks of any golfer in history.
Woods has been awarded PGA Player of the Year a record 11 times and has won the Byron Nelson Award for lowest adjusted scoring average a record eight times. He is also the second golfer to achieve a career Grand Slam three times. Woods is endorsed by some of the biggest brands in the world, including Nike, TaylorMade, Monster, GOLFTV, Bridgestone, Kowa, Hero, Upper Deck, Full Swing Simulators and Centinel Spine.
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