The world’s top ten male golfers have earned an average of $781 for every shot they have taken in their professional careers, a new study has found.
Sports and fitness website Noob Norm analysed 20 years of tour data to arrive at the figure, which only includes shots played in PGA Tour events, so the total figure would be much higher.
World No.2 Jordan Spieth topped the rich list, banking $1,104 for every shot he has played since turning professional in 2012, while Rory McIlroy also broke the $1K barrier, earning an average of $1,073 per shot.
World number one Dustin Johnson has a career average of $859 per shot, however, in 2017 he banked $1,696 for every shot played during a season in which he won four times.
While the current top ten players’ earnings per shot are impressive, there is one golfer, currently without an official world ranking, who has earned more than any of them.
Tiger Woods’s career average earnings per shot of $1,282 puts him way ahead of the pack. His best year was 2008, when he earned $4,191 per shot. Woods is set to return to competitive golf at the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas next week, where he will have a long-awaited chance to build on those impressive stats.
The full study, along with detailed stats for each player, can be found here.