Date: September 05, 2012
Author: Golf Australia

Woods breaks $100 million mark on Tour

World Number 3 Tiger Woods has broken a lot of records on his way to 14 Major victories. On Monday evening following the Deutsche Bank Championship, Woods added another record to his list, becoming the first golfer to win US$100 million in prizemoney on the PGA Tour. Woods finished third in the Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC Boston to earn $544,000 and push his career total to US$100,350,700. The purse increase helps, Woods told reporters. I&aposve won fewer tournaments than Sam Snead has, but obviously he was in a different era. It&aposs just that we happened to time it up right and happened to play well when the purses really had a nice spike up. Snead, who leads the career victories stakes with 82 PGA Tour wins, earned just $620,126 in a career that started in 1937. Woods has won 74 tournaments. It was nice to have a nice start to my career, and I won some majors early, he said. I think we got some interest in the game of golf. A lot more youth, that&aposs for sure, Woods said. Next on the money list is Phil Mickelson with US$66,805,498. Woods has earned more than US$5 million in 2012 following victories at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, Memorial Tournament and AT&T National.