2002 PGA Tour Money List: Prize Money & Top Earners

The 2002 money race

Cumulative prize money for the season's top five, event by event.

How the money was spread

710 players started at least one official event. The median player earned $0, and 357 players earned nothing. Each point on the curve is one player, from the top earner down to the last.

Biggest checks of 2002

Ernie Els · British Open… 2002$1.1M

Craig Perks · The Players… 2002$1.1M

Tiger Woods · Masters Tournament 2002$1.0M

Kevin Sutherland · WGC-Accenture Match… 2002$1.0M

Tiger Woods · U.S. Open… 2002$1.0M

Craig Parry · WGC-NEC Invitational 2002$1.0M

Tiger Woods · WGC-American Express… 2002$1.0M

Rich Beem · PGA Championship 2002$990K

Phil Tataurangi · Invensys Classic at… 2002$900K

Vijay Singh · The Tour Championship 2002$900K

2002 schedule, purses and winners

Multiple winners: Tiger Woods (5), Jerry Kelly (2), Phil Mickelson (2), Len Mattiace (2), Ernie Els (2), Vijay Singh (2), K.J. Choi (2).

Date	Event	Winner	Purse	Winner's share
01/03	Mercedes Championships history	Sergio Garcia	$4,000,000	$720,000
01/10	Sony Open in Hawaii history	Jerry Kelly	$4,000,000	$720,000
01/16	Bob Hope Chrysler Classic history	Phil Mickelson	$4,000,000	$720,000
01/24	Phoenix Open history	Chris DiMarco	$4,000,000	$720,000
01/31	AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am history	Matt Gogel	$4,000,000	$720,000
02/07	Buick Invitational history	José María Olazábal	$3,600,000	$648,000
02/14	Nissan Open history	Len Mattiace	$3,700,000	$666,000
02/21	Touchstone Energy Tucson Open history	Ian Leggatt	$3,000,000	$540,000
02/24	WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship history	Kevin Sutherland	$5,500,000	$1,000,000
02/28	Genuity Championship history	Ernie Els	$4,700,000	$846,000
03/07	The Honda Classic history	Matt Kuchar	$3,500,000	$630,000
03/14	Bay Hill Invitational presented by Cooper Tires history	Tiger Woods	$4,000,000	$720,000
03/21	The Players Championship Players history	Craig Perks	$6,000,000	$1,080,000
03/28	Shell Houston Open history	Vijay Singh	$4,000,000	$720,000
04/04	BellSouth Classic history	Retief Goosen	$3,800,000	$684,000
04/11	Masters Tournament Major history	Tiger Woods	$5,600,000	$1,008,000
04/18	WorldCom Classic - The Heritage of Golf history	Justin Leonard	$4,000,000	$720,000
04/25	Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic history	Rocco Mediate	$3,800,000	$684,000
05/02	Compaq Classic of New Orleans history	K.J. Choi	$4,500,000	$810,000
05/09	Verizon Byron Nelson Classic history	Shigeki Maruyama	$4,800,000	$864,000
05/16	MasterCard Colonial history	Nick Price	$4,300,000	$774,000
05/23	Memorial Tournament history	Jim Furyk	$4,500,000	$810,000
05/30	Kemper Insurance Open history	Bob Estes	$3,600,000	$648,000
06/06	Buick Classic history	Chris Smith	$3,500,000	$630,000
06/13	U.S. Open Championship Major history	Tiger Woods	$5,500,000	$1,000,000
06/20	Canon Greater Hartford Open history	Phil Mickelson	$4,000,000	$720,000
06/27	FedEx St. Jude Classic Playoff history	Len Mattiace	$3,800,000	$684,000
07/04	Advil Western Open history	Jerry Kelly	$4,000,000	$720,000
07/11	Greater Milwaukee Open history	Jeff Sluman	$3,100,000	$558,000
07/18	British Open Championship Major history	Ernie Els	$5,878,344	$1,106,140
07/18	B.C. Open history	Spike McRoy	$2,100,000	$378,000
07/25	John Deere Classic history	J.P. Hayes	$3,000,000	$540,000
08/01	The International Presented by Qwest history	—	$4,500,000	—
08/08	Buick Open history	Tiger Woods	$3,300,000	$594,000
08/15	PGA Championship Major history	Rich Beem	$5,500,000	$990,000
08/22	WGC-NEC Invitational history	Craig Parry	$5,500,000	$1,000,000
08/22	Reno-Tahoe Open history	Chris Riley	$3,000,000	$540,000
08/29	Air Canada Championship	Gene Sauers	$3,500,000	$630,000
09/05	Bell Canadian Open history	John Rollins	$4,000,000	$720,000
09/12	SEI Pennsylvania Classic history	Dan Forsman	$3,300,000	$594,000
09/19	WGC-American Express Championship history	Tiger Woods	$5,500,000	$1,000,000
09/19	Tampa Bay Classic presented by Buick history	K.J. Choi	$2,600,000	$468,000
09/26	Valero Texas Open history	Loren Roberts	$3,500,000	$630,000
09/26	Ryder Cup Unofficial history	—	—	—
10/03	Michelob Championship at Kingsmill	Charles Howell III	$3,700,000	$666,000
10/09	Invensys Classic at Las Vegas history	Phil Tataurangi	$5,000,000	$900,000
10/17	Disney Golf Classic history	Bob Burns	$3,700,000	$666,000
10/24	Buick Challenge	Jonathan Byrd	$3,700,000	$666,000
10/31	The Tour Championship presented by Coca-Cola Playoff history	Vijay Singh	$5,000,000	$900,000
10/31	Southern Farm Bureau Classic history	Luke Donald	$2,600,000	$468,000

Full 2002 money list

All 353 players who earned official prize money.

#	Player	Starts	Cuts	Wins	Prize money
1	Tiger Woods	20	18	5	$6,912,625
2	Phil Mickelson	25	23	2	$4,311,971
3	Vijay Singh	27	23	2	$3,728,618
4	David Toms	27	25	0	$3,459,739
5	Ernie Els	17	16	2	$3,093,895
6	Jerry Kelly	29	21	2	$2,946,889
7	Justin Leonard	25	23	1	$2,738,235
8	Charles Howell III	32	26	1	$2,641,997
9	Retief Goosen	15	14	1	$2,617,004
10	Chris DiMarco	30	26	1	$2,587,530
11	Fred Funk	30	24	0	$2,383,071
12	Jim Furyk	28	19	1	$2,363,250
13	Sergio Garcia	20	18	1	$2,334,493
14	Jeff Sluman	32	27	1	$2,250,187
15	Shigeki Maruyama	26	20	1	$2,214,794
16	Len Mattiace	28	25	2	$2,194,064
17	Nick Price	18	17	1	$2,170,912
18	K.J. Choi	28	18	2	$2,163,507
19	Rich Beem	29	18	1	$2,128,365
20	Robert Allenby	27	22	0	$2,115,771
21	Davis Love III	25	20	0	$2,045,165
22	Rocco Mediate	23	17	1	$2,040,676
23	José María Olazábal	19	15	1	$1,977,217
24	Chris Riley	31	22	1	$1,954,229
25	Bob Estes	25	20	1	$1,934,600
26	Kenny Perry	27	23	0	$1,928,598
27	Loren Roberts	26	21	1	$1,919,047
28	John Rollins	33	26	1	$1,915,165
29	Scott McCarron	27	23	0	$1,896,714
30	Brad Faxon	24	21	0	$1,814,672
31	Stuart Appleby	27	21	0	$1,729,459
32	John Cook	28	16	0	$1,624,095
33	Phil Tataurangi	26	18	1	$1,591,486
34	Kevin Sutherland	28	18	1	$1,569,529
35	Craig Perks	29	16	1	$1,506,042
36	Craig Parry	21	13	1	$1,466,235
37	Scott Hoch	28	16	0	$1,465,173
38	Jonathan Byrd	33	15	1	$1,462,713
39	Pat Perez	32	14	0	$1,451,726
40	Peter Lonard	28	23	0	$1,413,113
41	Steve Lowery	28	20	0	$1,396,553
42	Billy Andrade	30	19	0	$1,356,572
43	Chris Smith	29	20	1	$1,350,924
44	Dan Forsman	25	16	1	$1,305,790
45	John Huston	27	22	0	$1,288,883
46	Stephen Ames	27	16	0	$1,278,037
47	David Peoples	34	22	0	$1,243,774
48	Matt Kuchar	29	14	1	$1,237,725
49	Scott Verplank	26	21	0	$1,217,022
50	Steve Flesch	31	22	0	$1,192,341
51	Bob Burns	30	18	1	$1,183,602
52	Mark Calcavecchia	25	16	0	$1,162,509
53	Ian Leggatt	31	19	1	$1,137,048
54	Bob Tway	28	21	0	$1,125,749
55	Dudley Hart	29	17	0	$1,108,880
56	Matt Gogel	27	14	1	$1,089,482
57	Luke Donald	30	23	1	$1,088,205
58	Jonathan Kaye	28	15	0	$1,082,803
59	Joel Edwards	28	22	0	$1,077,651
60	Steve Elkington	22	16	0	$1,074,365
61	Brandt Jobe	28	18	0	$972,479
62	Lee Janzen	28	21	0	$965,740
63	Jesper Parnevik	27	17	0	$964,304
64	J.L. Lewis	31	17	0	$957,182
65	J.P. Hayes	24	14	1	$955,271
66	Tim Herron	31	20	0	$946,187
67	Brian Gay	37	24	0	$926,735
68	Padraig Harrington	9	9	0	$924,847
69	Ben Crane	33	16	0	$921,076
70	Rory Sabbatini	25	12	0	$908,719
71	Cameron Beckman	26	18	0	$907,740
72	Duffy Waldorf	26	18	0	$895,458
73	Geoff Ogilvy	26	16	0	$878,434
74	Stewart Cink	27	19	0	$875,312
75	Mike Weir	25	22	0	$843,890
76	David Duval	24	15	0	$838,045
77	Kirk Triplett	25	17	0	$832,278
78	Michael Campbell	11	6	0	$831,500
79	Chad Campbell	33	21	0	$825,474
80	Briny Baird	40	22	0	$817,514
81	Neal Lancaster	38	20	0	$813,230
82	Jim Carter	30	19	0	$812,346
83	Robert Gamez	21	13	0	$807,892
84	Billy Mayfair	31	18	0	$803,995
85	Joey Sindelar	31	19	0	$790,750
86	Tim Petrovic	31	14	0	$787,666
87	Glen Day	30	21	0	$781,180
88	Paul Azinger	24	13	0	$769,926
89	Darren Clarke	11	8	0	$769,811
90	Steve Stricker	22	12	0	$767,100
91	Hidemichi Tanaka	30	20	0	$766,423
92	Heath Slocum	34	14	0	$756,615
93	Rod Pampling	29	18	0	$754,290
94	Ángel Cabrera	13	12	0	$750,446
95	Tom Lehman	22	16	0	$742,632
96	Esteban Toledo	33	20	0	$738,518
97	Jeff Maggert	28	14	0	$733,198
98	Harrison Frazar	29	15	0	$731,295
99	Mark O'Meara	24	9	0	$730,132
100	Gene Sauers	12	5	1	$715,605
101	Jay Haas	23	17	0	$694,837
102	David Gossett	28	18	0	$676,308
103	Skip Kendall	30	20	0	$653,594
104	Carlos Franco	30	22	0	$652,147
105	Tom Pernice Jr.	31	19	0	$645,110
106	Greg Chalmers	30	14	0	$632,033
107	Shaun Micheel	29	20	0	$631,820
108	Notah Begay III	25	11	0	$624,026
109	Tim Clark	27	14	0	$623,744
110	Tom Byrum	23	15	0	$620,280
111	Spike McRoy	26	9	1	$616,814
112	Olin Browne	32	19	0	$606,693
113	Fred Couples	18	12	0	$605,303
114	John Daly	22	12	0	$593,595
115	David Berganio Jr	35	13	0	$573,151
116	Carl Paulson	30	14	0	$568,924
117	John Senden	29	17	0	$568,443
118	Frank Lickliter II	30	17	0	$567,835
119	Paul Stankowski	30	18	0	$565,294
120	Brent Geiberger	29	17	0	$563,692
121	Bernhard Langer	16	13	0	$559,395
122	Glen Hnatiuk	30	19	0	$558,940
123	Per-Ulrik Johansson	29	16	0	$556,064
124	Andrew Magee	28	16	0	$533,225
125	Thomas Levet	3	3	0	$532,186
126	J.J. Henry	36	20	0	$528,475
127	Pat Bates	33	16	0	$527,474
128	Jay Williamson	34	16	0	$515,445
129	David Frost	32	15	0	$509,845
130	Jay Don Blake	33	19	0	$495,066
131	Deane Pappas	34	11	0	$494,404
132	Kaname Yokoo	27	8	0	$490,473
133	Kent Jones	32	19	0	$489,879
134	Thomas Bjørn	10	7	0	$470,004
135	Mike Sposa	33	21	0	$463,418
136	Kenneth Staton	35	14	0	$453,816
137	Frank Nobilo	32	16	0	$447,324
138	Garrett Willis	33	13	0	$444,483
139	Paul Gow	34	13	0	$437,757
140	Adam Scott	10	7	0	$431,407
141	Joe Durant	29	16	0	$427,217
142	Craig Stadler	21	12	0	$427,028
143	Mark Brooks	37	15	0	$425,671
144	Bob May	30	15	0	$407,778
145	Paul Goydos	20	13	0	$407,345
146	Brett Quigley	33	15	0	$404,422
147	Mathew Goggin	20	12	0	$391,852
148	John Riegger	28	16	0	$390,675
149	Peter Jacobsen	23	11	0	$389,123
150	Craig Barlow	21	8	0	$383,444
151	Robert Damron	27	14	0	$380,872
152	Tommy Armour III	31	13	0	$379,191
153	Brandel Chamblee	31	13	0	$372,263
154	Brad Elder	25	11	0	$362,892
155	Corey Pavin	23	14	0	$362,012
156	Steve Allan	30	16	0	$359,655
157	Bryce Molder	21	10	0	$348,028
158	Dennis Paulson	29	13	0	$344,121
159	Tom Scherrer	35	14	0	$337,757
160	Grant Waite	30	17	0	$332,947
161	Nick Faldo	6	5	0	$321,208
162	Hal Sutton	27	11	0	$320,002
163	Tripp Isenhour	21	14	0	$319,210
164	Justin Rose	4	4	0	$316,316
165	Bart Bryant	20	14	0	$300,745
166	Greg Norman	12	9	0	$300,488
167	Woody Austin	36	13	0	$297,178
168	José Coceres	19	9	0	$286,552
169	Gary Evans	2	2	0	$286,228
170	Brian Henninger	20	12	0	$281,614
171	Miguel Angel Jiménez	18	10	0	$280,568
172	Jeff Brehaut	29	14	0	$274,335
173	Niclas Fasth	9	6	0	$272,378
174	Jeff Gove	30	14	0	$271,652
175	Brian Bateman	30	15	0	$267,876
176	Matt Peterson	29	13	0	$266,543
177	Donnie Hammond	18	12	0	$263,366
178	Colin Montgomerie	10	7	0	$261,095
179	Mike Heinen	15	9	0	$246,853
180	Michael Clark II	32	14	0	$239,422
181	Jerry Smith	33	11	0	$236,653
182	Franklin Langham	24	10	0	$229,326
183	Edward Fryatt	35	11	0	$225,823
184	Greg Kraft	34	12	0	$222,614
185	Tommy Tolles	20	12	0	$213,740
186	Peter O'Malley	6	4	0	$212,266
187	Pierre Fulke	4	4	0	$211,139
188	Lee Westwood	9	5	0	$210,585
189	Soren Hansen	4	4	0	$207,966
190	Paul McGinley	10	5	0	$203,573
191	Brett Wetterich	33	12	0	$203,034
192	Robin Freeman	26	12	0	$199,234
193	Toru Taniguchi	8	4	0	$198,010
194	Steve Pate	21	9	0	$195,883
195	Jim Gallagher, Jr.	15	7	0	$191,403
196	Stephen Gangluff	27	10	0	$187,804
197	Tom Watson	4	3	0	$180,130
198	Russ Cochran	25	12	0	$176,110
199	Lee Porter	31	12	0	$169,946
200	Toshi Izawa	7	5	0	$169,204
201	Brent Schwarzrock	21	6	0	$160,673
202	Michael Long	29	9	0	$157,723
203	Paul Claxton	29	13	0	$156,696
204	Jess Daley	29	10	0	$154,675
205	Kelly Gibson	14	6	0	$154,459
206	David Morland IV	21	8	0	$154,115
207	Steve Jones	24	11	0	$153,115
208	Ricardo Gonzalez	3	2	0	$151,964
209	Jason Hill	25	6	0	$150,860
210	Scott Dunlap	29	7	0	$144,454
211	Dicky Pride	17	9	0	$142,556
212	Bo Van Pelt	29	10	0	$139,357
213	Paul Lawrie	8	5	0	$135,960
214	David Howser	3	1	0	$133,475
215	Bob Heintz	28	6	0	$127,346
216	John Morse	8	2	0	$125,260
217	Blaine McCallister	27	9	0	$123,349
218	Scott Simpson	26	6	0	$122,115
219	Eduardo Herrera	23	7	0	$109,953
220	Michael Allen	30	9	0	$108,777
221	Phillip Price	7	4	0	$108,258
222	Cliff Kresge	2	2	0	$101,370
223	Pete Jordan	30	9	0	$101,330
224	Michael Muehr	29	9	0	$97,530
225	Boo Weekley	24	5	0	$95,206
226	Shingo Katayama	8	4	0	$93,777
227	Fulton Allem	29	6	0	$92,379
228	David Edwards	12	6	0	$89,285
229	Jim McGovern	16	7	0	$86,862
230	Willie Wood	17	6	0	$85,871
231	Bradley Hughes	22	8	0	$85,450
232	Brenden Pappas	26	6	0	$83,519
233	Guy Boros	11	3	0	$82,852
234	Stephen Leaney	2	2	0	$79,232
235	Danny Ellis	19	5	0	$73,340
236	Eduardo Romero	4	2	0	$72,550
237	Brad Lardon	25	8	0	$71,511
238	Hank Kuehne	7	3	0	$71,480
239	Anders Hansen	4	3	0	$70,247
240	Trevor Immelman	2	2	0	$70,228
241	Gabriel Hjertstedt	17	5	0	$69,186
242	Mike Standly	11	4	0	$68,210
243	Brian Watts	25	6	0	$68,204
244	Graeme McDowell	3	3	0	$63,160
245	David Sutherland	15	6	0	$63,052
246	Todd Fischer	1	1	0	$60,000
247	Mike Springer	12	6	0	$59,193
248	Zach Johnson	2	1	0	$57,000
249	Paul Casey	8	4	0	$55,921
250	Tom Kite	5	2	0	$54,350
251	Richard Zokol	20	6	0	$53,437
252	Carl Pettersson	4	2	0	$51,728
253	Joe Ogilvie	20	5	0	$47,696
254	Mike Hulbert	19	6	0	$46,148
255	Todd Barranger	1	1	0	$43,200
256	Gary Nicklaus	27	6	0	$41,969
257	Dean Wilson	4	2	0	$41,344
258	D.A. Weibring	10	3	0	$41,044
259	Kenichi Kuboya	2	2	0	$40,196
260	Bradley Dredge	1	1	0	$37,925
261	Des Smyth	1	1	0	$37,925
262	Kevin Johnson	1	1	0	$37,100
263	Jason Caron	1	1	0	$35,639
264	James Driscoll	6	4	0	$34,293
265	Hiroyuki Fujita	1	1	0	$33,714
266	Kevin Wentworth	4	1	0	$32,400
267	Bubba Dickerson	9	4	0	$30,596
268	Charlie Wi	1	1	0	$28,625
269	Thongchai Jaidee	2	1	0	$28,500
270	Stan Utley	7	4	0	$28,423
271	Dave Barr	5	4	0	$28,395
272	Sandy Lyle	8	2	0	$28,163
273	Nobuhito Sato	1	1	0	$28,125
274	Scott Laycock	5	1	0	$27,500
275	Frank Lickliter	1	1	0	$27,500
276	Trevor Dodds	7	3	0	$27,352
277	Dave Rummells	4	2	0	$27,349
278	Nicholas Lawrence	1	1	0	$27,250
279	Tobias Dier	1	1	0	$27,250
280	Andrew Coltart	1	1	0	$26,732
281	Ian Woosnam	3	1	0	$26,732
282	Dan Pohl	5	1	0	$24,570
283	Scott Gump	8	3	0	$23,610
284	Ken Duke	4	2	0	$23,162
285	Mario Tiziani	3	2	0	$22,603
286	Erik Compton	5	2	0	$22,438
287	Jay Delsing	10	3	0	$22,430
288	Jeff Gallagher	16	3	0	$21,711
289	John Maginnes	2	2	0	$21,701
290	Wayne Grady	5	1	0	$20,880
291	Robert Karlsson	2	1	0	$20,072
292	Jean Van de Velde	1	1	0	$20,072
293	Paul Eales	1	1	0	$18,962
294	Tom Gillis	2	2	0	$18,414
295	Michael Bradley	8	3	0	$18,363
296	Ted Tryba	12	2	0	$17,706
297	Fred Wadsworth	19	3	0	$16,854
298	Steve Scott	3	2	0	$16,640
299	Aaron Baddeley	3	2	0	$16,380
300	Lucas Glover	6	2	0	$16,349
301	Craig Bowden	2	1	0	$16,294
302	Barry Lane	1	1	0	$16,223
303	Fredrik Andersson Hed	1	1	0	$16,223
304	Ian Garbutt	1	1	0	$16,223
305	Ian Poulter	1	1	0	$16,223
306	Mikko Ilonen	1	1	0	$16,223
307	Warren Bennett	1	1	0	$16,223
308	Curtis Strange	11	2	0	$16,207
309	Derek Gillespie	2	1	0	$16,000
310	Jerry Pate	5	0	0	$15,372
311	Richard Green	1	1	0	$14,696
312	Doug Barron	6	2	0	$14,368
313	Ronnie Black	14	2	0	$14,219
314	Richie Coughlan	8	2	0	$13,955
315	Jarrod Moseley	1	1	0	$13,906
316	Brian Claar	11	2	0	$13,757
317	Matthew Cort	1	1	0	$13,195
318	Chip Sullivan	1	1	0	$12,966
319	Andy Miller	2	1	0	$12,794
320	Jeev Milkha Singh	1	1	0	$12,794
321	Roger Wessels	1	1	0	$12,247
322	David Park	1	1	0	$12,010
323	Brian Wilson	1	1	0	$10,860
324	Don Berry	1	1	0	$10,750
325	Dave Tentis	1	1	0	$10,500
326	Brad Bryant	5	2	0	$10,226
327	J.C. Anderson	1	1	0	$9,552
328	Mark Carnevale	5	2	0	$9,372
329	Michael Connell	2	1	0	$8,976
330	Todd Doohan	1	1	0	$8,920
331	Jack Nicklaus	1	1	0	$8,910
332	Ty Tryon	7	1	0	$8,620
333	David Ishii	1	1	0	$8,520
334	Jeff Quinney	4	1	0	$8,360
335	Sean Murphy	2	1	0	$8,284
336	Robert Thompson	2	0	0	$8,120
337	Dave Christensen	1	1	0	$8,080
338	Doug Tewell	1	0	0	$8,080
339	Larry Mize	10	1	0	$7,634
340	Iain Steel	1	1	0	$7,560
341	Gene Fieger	1	1	0	$7,105
342	David Hutsell	1	1	0	$6,804
343	Mark Wurtz	3	1	0	$6,660
344	Scott Watkins	1	1	0	$6,300
345	Stu Ingraham	1	1	0	$6,270
346	Nolan Henke	3	1	0	$6,240
347	Han Lee	1	1	0	$5,970
348	Greg Twiggs	1	1	0	$5,171
349	Larry Rinker	5	1	0	$4,628
350	Bill Glasson	13	1	0	$4,599
351	Jimmy Green	2	1	0	$4,599
352	Barry Cheesman	1	1	0	$4,263
353	Mike Deuel	1	1	0	$3,696

2002 PGA Tour money FAQ

Who led the 2002 PGA Tour money list?

Tiger Woods, with $6,912,625 in official prize money.

How much prize money did the PGA Tour pay in 2002?

$196,097,152 across 49 official events, from total purses of $199,678,344.

How many PGA Tour players earned $1 million in 2002?

60. Of those, 1 earned over $5 million and 0 over $10 million.

What was the biggest paycheck of 2002?

$1,106,140 to Ernie Els at the British Open Championship.