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Rory McIlroy is set to become the second player in golf history, after Tiger Woods, to break the $100 million career earnings barrier on the PGA Tour. After his success in The Players Championship, the Northern Irishman has reached $99,709,062, surpassing Phil Mickelson (96,685,635) and is now behind only the Californian phenomenon, also in terms of earnings.
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Woods is still at the top of this special ranking with $120,999,166, but now the world number 2 can not only worry him but in the future, who knows (also considering the notable increase in prize money in recent years, since the economic advance of the Arab Super League has been witnessed on the green), surpass him. In the first months of 2025, McIlroy has already earned $8.7 million, or almost 9% of his career earnings on the PGA Tour.
Eldrick Tont Woods, better known as Tiger Woods, born December 30, 1975, in Cypress, California, is an American golfer.
Considered one of the greatest golfers of all time, he is one of the most popular athletes of the early 21st century. Winner of 15 major tournaments, he revolutionized the world of golf with his athletic achievements and by attracting a new audience.
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Precocious, Tiger Woods began playing golf at a young age and achieved exceptional results in all junior categories. An amateur, highly regarded for his extraordinary skills, he turned professional in the late summer of 1996. Winner of the 1997 Masters, he became world number one less than a season after turning professional. Dominant for most of the 2000s, various physical problems with his knees and back forced him to reinvent his game.
A commercial figure and the poster boy for the sportswear company Nike, Tiger Woods racked up a string of lucrative off-course contracts, making him one of the richest athletes of the 2000s despite the scandals that marred his private life and his marriage in 2009.
In April 2019, at the age of 43, he achieved the feat of winning his fifth Masters and his 15th career major title at Augusta, eleven years after his last major victory.On May 6, 2019, he was awarded America's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by U.S. President Donald Trump. On March 8, 2022, he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame.
