Tiger Woods Earnings: What Is Tiger's Annual Income?

Question: Tiger Woods Earnings: What Is Tiger's Annual Income?

Answer: What are Tiger Woods' earnings annually throughout his career? How much money has he made each year? That question is easy to answer, at least in terms of his earnings on the golf course. All we have to do is look at the PGA Tour money list going back to his rookie season of 1996.

Here are Tiger Woods' earnings on the PGA Tour each year of his career:

Tiger Woods PGA Tour Earnings

• 1996: $790,594
• 1997: $2,066,833
• 1998: $1,841,117
• 1999: $6,616,585
• 2000: $9,188,321
• 2001: $5,687,777
• 2002: $6,912,625
• 2003: $6,673,413
• 2004: $5,365,472
• 2005: $10,628,024
• 2006: $9,941,563
• 2007: $10,867,052
• 2008: $5,775,000
• 2009: $10,508,163
• 2010: $1,294,765
• 2011: $660,238
• 2012: $6,133,158

Of course, Woods occasionally plays golf outside the USPGA Tour. Since 2003, a "world money list" has been compiled on PGATour.com, which combines golfers' earnings across all the world tours. Tiger's totals are slightly higher on that list:

Tiger Woods on the World Money List

• 2003: $6,700,288
• 2004: $5,819,407
• 2005: $11,515,939
• 2006: $11,141,827
• 2007: $11,002,706
• 2008: $6,196,717
• 2009: $10,948,054
• 2010: $2,154,516
• 2011: $1,940,238

But the other component of Tiger Woods' earnings is his off-course income: income from endorsements, from his course design business, licensing fees related to his Tiger Woods PGA Tour video game franchise, corporate outings and so on. Luckily for us, the magazine Golf Digest has annually, beginning in 2003, compiled what it calls the "Golf Digest 50." The GD50 combines a golfer's on-course income with his or her estimated off-course income (estimated after much research and many interviews conducted by Golf Digest).

Golf Digest 50: Tiger Woods' Total Earnings

• 2003: $83,700,288
• 2004: $89,370,407
• 2005: $86,992,739
• 2006: $98,941,827
• 2007: $122,702,706
• 2008: $117,337,626
• 2009: $121,915,196
• 2010: $74,294,116
• 2011: $64,067,059
• 2012: $86,124,386

See Tiger Woods career earnings for an estimate of his total career income since turning pro.

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