How much money has Tiger Woods earned per shot in his PGA Tour career? Well how about you hazard a guess now at the figure and then read on to see how close you were?
Tiger Woods turned pro on August 29, 1996, after winning his third US Amateur title. He had already played on the PGA Tour as an amateur 14 times by then, five of these appearances being in Majors. He made his PGA Tour debut as a 16-year-old at the Los Angeles Open of 1992. He missed the cut there, as he did in his first seven PGA Tour starts, before he tied for 41st at the Masters of 1995.
Once he was no longer an amateur, Tiger was able to start winning prize money. In his first outing as a pro he took home $2,544 for his tied 60th place in the Greater Milwaukee Open. He won on his fifth outing as a professional – squirrel that bit of info away incidentally if you are going to take part in our Tiger Woods quiz – which was at the Las Vegas Invitational. He won $297,000 for that victory.
It is one of the quirks of golf that people play the game because, presumably, they like hitting a golf ball. But golfers also trend to like it most when they hit the ball the fewest times during a round. Hitting the ball the fewest times of anyone was a speciality of Tiger’s. In both the 2000 and 2007 seasons his average round score was 67.8.
