2001 PGA Tour Money List: Prize Money & Top Earners

The 2001 money race

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

How the money was spread

690 players started at least one official event. The median player earned $5,460, and 333 players earned nothing. Each point on the curve is one player, from the top earner down to the last.

Biggest checks of 2001

Tiger Woods · The Players… 2001$1.1M

Tiger Woods · Masters Tournament 2001$1.0M

Steve Stricker · WGC-Accenture Match… 2001$1.0M

Tiger Woods · WGC-NEC Invitational 2001$1.0M

David Toms · PGA Championship 2001$936K

Retief Goosen · U.S. Open… 2001$900K

Mike Weir · The Tour Championship 2001$900K

David Duval · British Open… 2001$858K

Joe Durant · Genuity Championship 2001$810K

Robert Damron · Verizon Byron Nelson… 2001$810K

2001 schedule, purses and winners

Multiple winners: Tiger Woods (5), David Toms (3), Phil Mickelson (2), Joe Durant (2), Robert Allenby (2), José Coceres (2), Scott Hoch (2), Sergio Garcia (2), Bob Estes (2).

Date	Event	Winner	Purse	Winner's share
01/04	WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship history	Steve Stricker	$5,000,000	$1,000,000
01/11	Mercedes Championships history	Jim Furyk	$3,500,000	$630,000
01/11	Touchstone Energy Tucson Open history	Garrett Willis	$3,000,000	$540,000
01/18	Sony Open in Hawaii history	Brad Faxon	$4,000,000	$720,000
01/25	Phoenix Open history	Mark Calcavecchia	$4,000,000	$720,000
02/01	AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am history	Davis Love III	$4,000,000	$720,000
02/08	Buick Invitational history	Phil Mickelson	$3,500,000	$630,000
02/14	Bob Hope Chrysler Classic history	Joe Durant	$3,500,000	$630,000
02/22	Nissan Open history	Robert Allenby	$3,400,000	$612,000
03/01	Genuity Championship history	Joe Durant	$4,500,000	$810,000
03/08	Honda Classic history	Jesper Parnevik	$3,200,000	$576,000
03/15	Bay Hill Invitational history	Tiger Woods	$3,500,000	$630,000
03/22	The Players Championship Players history	Tiger Woods	$6,000,000	$1,080,000
03/29	BellSouth Classic history	Scott McCarron	$3,300,000	$594,000
04/05	Masters Tournament Major history	Tiger Woods	$5,600,000	$1,008,000
04/12	WorldCom Classic - The Heritage of Golf history	José Coceres	$3,500,000	$630,000
04/19	Shell Houston Open history	Hal Sutton	$3,400,000	$612,000
04/26	Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic history	Scott Hoch	$3,500,000	$630,000
05/03	Compaq Classic of New Orleans history	David Toms	$4,000,000	$720,000
05/10	Verizon Byron Nelson Classic history	Robert Damron	$4,500,000	$810,000
05/17	MasterCard Colonial history	Sergio Garcia	$4,000,000	$720,000
05/24	Kemper Insurance Open history	Frank Lickliter II	$3,500,000	$630,000
05/31	Memorial Tournament history	Tiger Woods	$4,100,000	$738,000
06/07	FedEx St. Jude Classic Playoff history	Bob Estes	$3,500,000	$630,000
06/14	U.S. Open Championship Major history	Retief Goosen	$5,000,000	$900,000
06/21	Buick Classic history	Sergio Garcia	$3,500,000	$630,000
06/28	Canon Greater Hartford Open history	Phil Mickelson	$3,100,000	$558,000
07/05	Advil Western Open history	Scott Hoch	$3,600,000	$648,000
07/12	Greater Milwaukee Open history	Shigeki Maruyama	$3,100,000	$558,000
07/19	British Open Championship Major history	David Duval	$4,497,864	$858,300
07/19	B.C. Open history	Jeff Sluman	$2,000,000	$360,000
07/26	John Deere Classic history	David Gossett	$2,800,000	$504,000
08/02	The International Presented by Qwest history	—	$4,000,000	—
08/09	Buick Open history	Kenny Perry	$3,100,000	$558,000
08/16	PGA Championship Major history	David Toms	$5,200,000	$936,000
08/23	WGC-NEC Invitational history	Tiger Woods	$5,000,000	$1,000,000
08/23	Reno-Tahoe Open history	John Cook	$3,000,000	$540,000
08/30	Air Canada Championship	Joel Edwards	$3,400,000	$612,000
09/06	Bell Canadian Open history	Scott Verplank	$3,800,000	$684,000
09/13	WGC-American Express Championship history	—	$5,000,000	—
09/13	Tampa Bay Classic presented by Buick history	—	$2,500,000	—
09/20	Marconi Pennsylvania Classic history	Robert Allenby	$3,300,000	$594,000
09/27	Texas Open at LaCantera history	Justin Leonard	$3,000,000	$540,000
09/27	Ryder Cup Unofficial history	—	—	—
10/04	Michelob Championship at Kingsmill	David Toms	$3,500,000	$630,000
10/10	Invensys Classic at Las Vegas history	Bob Estes	$4,500,000	$810,000
10/18	National Car Rental Golf Classic Disney history	José Coceres	$3,400,000	$612,000
10/25	Buick Challenge	Chris DiMarco	$3,400,000	$612,000
11/01	The Tour Championship Playoff history	Mike Weir	$5,000,000	$900,000
11/01	Southern Farm Bureau Classic history	Cameron Beckman	$2,400,000	$432,000

Full 2001 money list

All 357 players who earned official prize money.

#	Player	Starts	Cuts	Wins	Prize money
1	Tiger Woods	20	19	5	$5,687,777
2	Phil Mickelson	24	19	2	$4,395,963
3	David Toms	28	23	3	$3,791,595
4	Vijay Singh	26	23	0	$3,232,829
5	Davis Love III	22	17	1	$3,169,463
6	Scott Hoch	25	17	2	$2,875,319
7	Sergio Garcia	18	13	2	$2,806,635
8	Bob Estes	27	20	2	$2,795,477
9	Scott Verplank	27	24	1	$2,783,401
10	Mike Weir	24	20	1	$2,777,936
11	David Duval	20	17	1	$2,764,960
12	Jim Furyk	25	19	1	$2,540,734
13	Chris DiMarco	29	25	1	$2,387,201
14	Joe Durant	26	14	2	$2,381,684
15	Robert Allenby	30	25	2	$2,309,029
16	Ernie Els	19	14	0	$2,128,456
17	Mark Calcavecchia	23	16	1	$1,991,576
18	Frank Lickliter II	30	21	1	$1,941,911
19	Tom Lehman	25	17	0	$1,907,660
20	Jeff Sluman	31	23	1	$1,841,952
21	Brad Faxon	26	20	1	$1,812,412
22	Bernhard Langer	18	15	0	$1,810,363
23	Scott McCarron	26	22	1	$1,746,906
24	Steve Lowery	29	23	0	$1,738,820
25	Justin Leonard	30	21	1	$1,737,242
26	Hal Sutton	27	23	1	$1,723,946
27	Billy Mayfair	31	21	0	$1,716,002
28	Stewart Cink	29	21	0	$1,711,628
29	Kenny Perry	27	21	1	$1,694,066
30	Steve Stricker	20	15	1	$1,676,229
31	Jesper Parnevik	26	21	1	$1,574,208
32	José Coceres	19	12	2	$1,527,888
33	Kevin Sutherland	29	21	0	$1,523,573
34	Paul Azinger	22	19	0	$1,509,130
35	Jerry Kelly	31	20	0	$1,480,167
36	Rocco Mediate	23	14	0	$1,474,435
37	Shigeki Maruyama	28	22	1	$1,441,455
38	Charles Howell III	24	19	0	$1,428,632
39	Kirk Triplett	27	18	0	$1,320,202
40	Brian Gay	34	23	0	$1,299,361
41	Billy Andrade	28	12	0	$1,295,447
42	Nick Price	22	17	0	$1,286,756
43	Fred Funk	34	27	0	$1,237,004
44	Joel Edwards	30	19	1	$1,193,528
45	Retief Goosen	11	6	1	$1,176,985
46	Steve Flesch	32	23	0	$1,149,552
47	Bob Tway	28	24	0	$1,104,258
48	J.J. Henry	30	14	0	$1,073,847
49	Robert Damron	29	18	1	$1,059,187
50	Cameron Beckman	30	20	1	$1,042,943
51	Dudley Hart	26	16	0	$1,035,710
52	John Cook	25	20	1	$1,007,978
53	Rory Sabbatini	22	12	0	$1,007,190
54	Stuart Appleby	29	22	0	$976,128
55	Chris Smith	30	19	0	$924,690
56	Mark Brooks	29	16	0	$899,444
57	Lee Janzen	29	17	0	$884,028
58	Tim Herron	29	19	0	$869,441
59	John Daly	27	16	0	$828,914
60	Brett Quigley	21	12	0	$817,934
61	Dennis Paulson	25	13	0	$811,105
62	Olin Browne	30	18	0	$807,516
63	Briny Baird	32	20	0	$794,401
64	K.J. Choi	28	18	0	$788,886
65	Chris Riley	29	20	0	$766,225
66	Harrison Frazar	24	17	0	$755,656
67	Skip Kendall	33	23	0	$753,701
68	David Gossett	15	8	1	$748,126
69	Paul Stankowski	27	18	0	$732,163
70	Matt Gogel	26	14	0	$729,783
71	Jeff Maggert	28	14	0	$713,607
72	Glen Day	28	16	0	$706,780
73	Darren Clarke	8	5	0	$705,870
74	David Peoples	33	17	0	$703,397
75	Greg Chalmers	26	20	0	$692,170
76	Brent Geiberger	24	17	0	$686,394
77	Garrett Willis	34	11	1	$684,038
78	Esteban Toledo	37	21	0	$683,751
79	Jonathan Kaye	35	25	0	$674,410
80	David Berganio Jr	27	14	0	$673,642
81	Neal Lancaster	36	18	0	$657,580
82	Joey Sindelar	25	10	0	$645,604
83	J.P. Hayes	23	14	0	$622,964
84	Niclas Fasth	4	3	0	$610,418
85	Pierre Fulke	9	4	0	$604,630
86	Tom Pernice Jr.	34	18	0	$598,762
87	Len Mattiace	30	18	0	$592,781
88	Jerry Smith	33	15	0	$592,030
89	Paul Gow	27	11	0	$588,782
90	Toru Taniguchi	10	4	0	$587,914
91	Loren Roberts	25	17	0	$584,072
92	Brandel Chamblee	24	14	0	$582,086
93	Matt Kuchar	12	6	0	$572,669
94	Chris Perry	31	15	0	$568,391
95	Mike Sposa	29	18	0	$564,872
96	Jay Haas	20	15	0	$553,701
97	Stephen Ames	25	17	0	$550,851
98	Grant Waite	28	12	0	$539,227
99	Geoff Ogilvy	24	7	0	$525,338
100	Toshi Izawa	5	4	0	$519,180
101	Scott Simpson	22	13	0	$512,530
102	Per-Ulrik Johansson	31	12	0	$510,488
103	J.L. Lewis	32	22	0	$508,618
104	Carl Paulson	32	16	0	$508,208
105	David Frost	28	15	0	$504,376
106	Greg Kraft	33	19	0	$503,605
107	Craig Parry	22	12	0	$495,363
108	John Huston	20	12	0	$487,652
109	Carlos Franco	29	17	0	$486,665
110	Kaname Yokoo	28	13	0	$477,989
111	Jay Williamson	36	12	0	$476,031
112	Bob May	25	17	0	$466,936
113	Miguel Angel Jiménez	16	6	0	$464,457
114	Frank Nobilo	28	17	0	$462,650
115	Edward Fryatt	30	14	0	$460,820
116	Rich Beem	32	14	0	$460,565
117	Corey Pavin	21	14	0	$458,401
118	Brian Watts	17	12	0	$457,293
119	Craig Perks	30	8	0	$457,127
120	Dan Forsman	25	15	0	$448,074
121	Larry Mize	24	13	0	$440,179
122	Steve Elkington	19	12	0	$429,400
123	Glen Hnatiuk	31	20	0	$426,164
124	Scott Dunlap	29	14	0	$420,777
125	Craig Barlow	24	14	0	$414,139
126	Michael Muehr	32	14	0	$409,250
127	Brandt Jobe	30	17	0	$407,065
128	Bradley Hughes	33	14	0	$406,258
129	Colin Montgomerie	8	5	0	$402,762
130	Brad Elder	35	20	0	$396,967
131	Tom Byrum	30	15	0	$391,925
132	José María Olazábal	15	9	0	$390,678
133	Pete Jordan	36	16	0	$386,088
134	Fred Couples	19	14	0	$385,984
135	Duffy Waldorf	27	12	0	$380,861
136	Spike McRoy	32	14	0	$380,054
137	Jay Don Blake	32	18	0	$378,576
138	Paul Goydos	29	12	0	$375,557
139	Ian Leggatt	30	12	0	$368,862
140	Russ Cochran	26	14	0	$352,836
141	Padraig Harrington	10	8	0	$348,426
142	Jim Carter	29	23	0	$345,926
143	Bob Burns	29	15	0	$344,926
144	Joe Ogilvie	34	20	0	$343,189
145	Shaun Micheel	34	16	0	$342,735
146	John Riegger	28	17	0	$342,221
147	Lee Porter	30	15	0	$337,662
148	Franklin Langham	21	11	0	$332,538
149	Ángel Cabrera	9	5	0	$328,104
150	Mark O'Meara	21	12	0	$326,620
151	Michael Campbell	11	6	0	$326,192
152	Brent Schwarzrock	21	11	0	$322,336
153	Mark Wiebe	25	8	0	$308,792
154	Gabriel Hjertstedt	31	7	0	$296,273
155	Tommy Tolles	31	11	0	$295,844
156	Tripp Isenhour	31	15	0	$290,892
157	Woody Austin	34	13	0	$282,352
158	Ted Tryba	33	20	0	$282,049
159	Blaine McCallister	29	11	0	$280,589
160	David Morland IV	29	14	0	$279,877
161	Mathew Goggin	33	14	0	$274,605
162	Steve Pate	31	15	0	$271,967
163	Ronnie Black	18	9	0	$271,686
164	Joe Ozaki	17	7	0	$271,202
165	Jim McGovern	21	11	0	$261,774
166	Chad Campbell	3	1	0	$259,200
167	Shingo Katayama	7	3	0	$254,685
168	Robin Freeman	34	17	0	$248,543
169	Greg Norman	10	6	0	$247,050
170	Danny Ellis	28	10	0	$242,487
171	Fulton Allem	23	7	0	$241,680
172	Tommy Armour III	32	13	0	$238,091
173	Michael Clark II	30	12	0	$236,990
174	Ian Woosnam	6	3	0	$225,878
175	Cliff Kresge	32	10	0	$220,649
176	Jeff Hart	28	15	0	$219,386
177	Jean Van de Velde	18	8	0	$218,614
178	Steve Jones	24	10	0	$217,856
179	Nick Faldo	14	10	0	$215,961
180	Jimmy Green	33	12	0	$213,942
181	Tom Scherrer	29	8	0	$212,091
182	Tom Kite	5	3	0	$211,252
183	Bryce Molder	8	3	0	$211,105
184	Gary Nicklaus	34	12	0	$209,893
185	Dicky Pride	28	12	0	$206,022
186	Kevin Johnson	32	14	0	$205,242
187	Ben Bates	19	8	0	$197,191
188	Willie Wood	17	10	0	$196,113
189	Robert Gamez	23	6	0	$193,525
190	Ben Ferguson	30	7	0	$187,970
191	Craig Stadler	18	5	0	$186,813
192	Jason Gore	31	11	0	$180,451
193	Chris Tidland	29	12	0	$176,938
194	Marco Dawson	21	10	0	$172,738
195	Brian Wilson	31	12	0	$169,440
196	Andrew Magee	31	15	0	$167,308
197	Thomas Bjørn	7	4	0	$163,780
198	Brian Henninger	29	10	0	$160,814
199	Jeff Brehaut	25	13	0	$160,246
200	Bill Glasson	26	7	0	$158,841
201	Steve Allan	32	12	0	$156,686
202	Mark Hensby	31	7	0	$155,629
203	Donnie Hammond	15	11	0	$152,698
204	Nick O'Hern	4	1	0	$150,000
205	Curtis Strange	11	3	0	$148,632
206	Phil Tataurangi	13	4	0	$141,581
207	Brad Fabel	11	5	0	$140,940
208	Paul McGinley	5	4	0	$133,079
209	Emanuele Canonica	18	4	0	$132,869
210	Craig Kanada	28	11	0	$132,163
211	Andrew McLardy	27	10	0	$130,160
212	Brian Claar	9	3	0	$129,519
213	Andrew Coltart	3	3	0	$119,317
214	Phillip Price	7	4	0	$113,406
215	Barry Cheesman	17	6	0	$109,635
216	Hunter Haas	30	8	0	$109,110
217	Notah Begay III	12	4	0	$100,538
218	Ian Poulter	3	1	0	$100,500
219	D.A. Weibring	11	7	0	$99,843
220	Jeremy Anderson	29	7	0	$99,464
221	Adam Scott	7	4	0	$93,026
222	Michael Allen	1	1	0	$91,734
223	Mikko Ilonen	4	1	0	$91,194
224	Peter Lonard	8	3	0	$91,172
225	Dave Stockton, Jr.	22	8	0	$90,132
226	Kent Jones	29	7	0	$87,308
227	Mike Springer	11	3	0	$81,141
228	Luke Donald	7	3	0	$80,747
229	Richie Coughlan	27	8	0	$80,222
230	Doug Barron	27	7	0	$77,837
231	Doug Dunakey	32	9	0	$77,793
232	Lee Westwood	7	3	0	$76,821
233	Mark McNulty	4	1	0	$75,000
234	Bart Bryant	11	7	0	$73,884
235	Paul Lawrie	6	2	0	$69,312
236	Trevor Dodds	2	2	0	$66,366
237	Keith Clearwater	25	7	0	$66,178
238	Hidemichi Tanaka	8	2	0	$65,363
239	Peter Jacobsen	18	7	0	$64,297
240	Jaxon Brigman	1	1	0	$61,500
241	Kelly Grunewald	28	6	0	$59,244
242	Gary Orr	4	2	0	$58,862
243	Alex Cejka	1	1	0	$57,310
244	Des Smyth	1	1	0	$57,310
245	Raphael Jacquelin	1	1	0	$57,310
246	Jeff Julian	23	5	0	$55,132
247	Eduardo Romero	5	2	0	$54,374
248	Tim Thelen	7	2	0	$51,780
249	Sean Murphy	28	8	0	$51,744
250	Mike Heinen	9	4	0	$50,838
251	Phil Blackmar	2	1	0	$49,300
252	Michael Bradley	9	4	0	$47,885
253	Mike Reid	14	5	0	$47,608
254	Omar Uresti	3	2	0	$47,450
255	Jim Gallagher, Jr.	15	3	0	$47,424
256	Heath Slocum	10	6	0	$45,670
257	Greg Owen	1	1	0	$43,630
258	Fuzzy Zoeller	16	5	0	$38,530
259	Barry Lane	1	1	0	$35,762
260	Mathias Gronberg	4	2	0	$33,862
261	Rocky Walcher	27	3	0	$32,942
262	Richard Zokol	3	2	0	$32,802
263	Scott Gump	7	4	0	$31,902
264	Craig Spence	20	2	0	$31,548
265	Justin Rose	1	1	0	$30,756
266	Nicolas Vanhootegem	1	1	0	$30,756
267	Dean Wilson	3	1	0	$30,055
268	Kazuhiko Hosokawa	2	1	0	$29,944
269	Mike Hulbert	19	4	0	$27,999
270	Nolan Henke	9	3	0	$25,420
271	Mark Carnevale	4	3	0	$25,016
272	Nobuhito Sato	3	1	0	$25,000
273	Hirofumi Miyase	1	1	0	$25,000
274	Patrik Sjöland	1	1	0	$25,000
275	Stephen Gangluff	2	2	0	$22,476
276	Tom Purtzer	18	3	0	$21,904
277	Jeffrey Lankford	2	1	0	$21,775
278	Tim Clark	4	1	0	$21,750
279	Jeff Gallagher	7	3	0	$20,984
280	Kevin Wentworth	15	2	0	$20,820
281	Tony Carolan	1	1	0	$20,698
282	Gene Fieger	2	1	0	$19,573
283	Aaron Baddeley	10	2	0	$19,435
284	Richard Green	1	1	0	$19,312
285	Richard Johnson	1	1	0	$18,029
286	Joey Gullion	3	1	0	$16,200
287	Gary Hallberg	8	2	0	$15,296
288	Guy Boros	3	2	0	$15,088
289	Sam Randolph	5	2	0	$14,988
290	Katsumune Imai	1	1	0	$14,318
291	Andrew Oldcorn	2	1	0	$14,250
292	Rick Schuller	1	1	0	$14,250
293	John Restino	12	2	0	$13,808
294	Mark Wilson	2	2	0	$13,727
295	Mark Johnson	1	1	0	$13,600
296	Jimmy Walker	3	1	0	$13,164
297	Hale Irwin	1	1	0	$13,164
298	Paul Curry	1	1	0	$12,793
299	Brad Bryant	2	1	0	$12,760
300	Ed Fiori	6	1	0	$12,760
301	Andy Bean	8	2	0	$12,490
302	Gordon Brand Jr.	1	1	0	$12,016
303	Neil Cheetham	1	1	0	$11,873
304	Alexandre Balicki	1	1	0	$11,766
305	Thomas Levet	2	1	0	$11,766
306	David Smail	2	1	0	$11,659
307	Sandy Lyle	5	1	0	$11,551
308	Scott Henderson	2	1	0	$11,551
309	Tim Petrovic	1	1	0	$11,442
310	Jeff Quinney	7	1	0	$11,400
311	Perry Arthur	1	1	0	$10,317
312	Dick Mast	3	1	0	$10,171
313	Tom Watson	4	1	0	$9,950
314	Larry Rinker	7	1	0	$9,270
315	Anthony Kang	1	1	0	$8,862
316	Thongchai Jaidee	1	1	0	$8,862
317	Bruce Lietzke	2	1	0	$8,840
318	Paul Casey	3	1	0	$8,580
319	Steven Alker	1	1	0	$8,550
320	Gene Sauers	2	1	0	$8,400
321	Jonathan Byrd	1	1	0	$8,400
322	Ben Crenshaw	12	1	0	$7,770
323	David Sutherland	2	1	0	$7,752
324	Todd Barranger	1	1	0	$7,700
325	Michael Christensen	1	1	0	$7,616
326	Bobby Cochran	1	1	0	$7,455
327	Mark Wurtz	2	1	0	$7,388
328	Derek Gillespie	1	1	0	$7,296
329	Mark McCumber	12	1	0	$7,276
330	Kevin Blanton	1	0	0	$7,264
331	James Driscoll	4	1	0	$7,208
332	Michael Combs	1	1	0	$7,208
333	Todd Fanning	2	1	0	$7,208
334	Rob Bradley	1	1	0	$7,000
335	Robert Thompson	2	0	0	$6,936
336	Gary Koch	3	1	0	$6,825
337	Ryan Dillon	2	1	0	$6,534
338	Lucas Glover	2	1	0	$6,180
339	Craig Bowden	4	1	0	$6,107
340	David Ogrin	2	1	0	$6,030
341	Ben Curtis	1	1	0	$6,020
342	David Stephens	1	1	0	$5,950
343	Mike Standly	6	1	0	$5,766
344	Chris Zambri	2	1	0	$5,600
345	Yoshi Mizumaki	1	1	0	$5,520
346	Rick Fehr	9	1	0	$5,400
347	Jay Delsing	5	1	0	$4,887
348	Bobby Wadkins	1	1	0	$4,887
349	Bob Lohr	1	1	0	$4,300
350	Morris Hatalsky	1	1	0	$4,000
351	John Morse	1	1	0	$3,880
352	Wayne Levi	2	1	0	$3,880
353	Dave Barr	4	1	0	$3,760
354	Tim Conley	1	1	0	$3,680
355	Stan Utley	3	1	0	$3,540
356	Greg Twiggs	1	1	0	$3,540
357	Ernie Gonzalez	1	1	0	$3,440

2001 PGA Tour money FAQ

Who led the 2001 PGA Tour money list?

Tiger Woods, with $5,687,777 in official prize money.

How much prize money did the PGA Tour pay in 2001?

$174,471,854 across 49 official events, from total purses of $185,097,864.

How many PGA Tour players earned $1 million in 2001?

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

What was the biggest paycheck of 2001?

$1,080,000 to Tiger Woods at The Players Championship.