The PGA Tour is an organization that operates the main professional golf tours in the United States. It is headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, a suburb of Jacksonville. Its name is officially rendered in all-capital letters as "PGA TOUR ". The PGA Tour became a separate entity in 1968, branching off from the PGA of America, which is now primarily an association of club professionals. Tournament players formed their own organization, the Association of Professional Golfers (APG). Later in 1968, the tournament players abolished the APG and agreed to operate as the PGA "Tournament Players Division," a fully autonomous division under the supervision of a new 10-member Tournament Policy Board. [1] The name would officially change to the "PGA Tour" in 1975. [2] In 1981, the PGA Tour had a marketing dispute with the PGA of America and decided to officially change its name. Beginning in late August 1981, it became the TPA Tour, for the "Tournament Players Association." [3] The disputed issues were resolved within seven months and the tour's name was changed back to the "PGA Tour" in March 1982. [4] Due to a multiplicity of similar names, it is worth emphasizing what the PGA Tour does and does not organize. The PGA Tour does not run any of the four major golf tournaments or the Ryder Cup. The PGA of America, not the PGA Tour, runs the PGA Championship, the Senior PGA Championship, and co-organizes the Ryder Cup with the PGA European Tour. The PGA Tour is not involved with the women's tours in the U.S.; they are controlled by the LPGA. The PGA Tour is also not the governing body for the game of golf in the United States; this, instead, is the role of the USGA, which organizes the U.S. Open. What the PGA Tour does organize are the remaining 43 (in 2009) week-to-week events, including The Players Championship and the FedEx Cup events, as well as the biennial Presidents Cup.

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Tours operated by the PGA Tour

The PGA Tour operates three tours, which are played mostly in the U.S., with occasional events in Canada and Mexico, and one major championship in the U.K. in each of the first two listed.

• PGA Tour, the top tour
• Champions Tour, for golfers age 50 and over
• Nationwide Tour, a developmental tour

The PGA Tour also conducts an annual Qualifying Tournament (known colloquially as Q-School), a six-round tournament held each fall; the top 25 finishers, including ties, receive privileges to play on the following year's PGA Tour. Remaining finishers in the top 75, plus ties, receive full privileges on the Nationwide Tour. The top 25 money-winners on the Nationwide Tour also receive privileges on the following year's PGA Tour. A golfer who wins three events on that tour in a calendar year earns a "battlefield promotion" which garners PGA Tour privileges for the remainder of the year.

At the end of each year, the top 125 money-winners on the PGA Tour receive a tour card for the following season, which gives them exemption from qualifying for most of the next year's tournaments. However at some events, known as invitationals, exemptions apply only to the previous year's top seventy players. Players who are ranked between 126-150 receive a conditional tour card, which gives them priority for places that are not taken up by players with full cards.

Winning a PGA Tour event provides a tour card for a minimum of two years, with an extra year added for each additional win with a maximum of five years. Winning a World Golf Championships event or The Tour Championship provides a three-year exemption. Winners of the major championships and The Players Championship earn a five-year exemption. Other types of exemptions include lifetime exemptions for players with twenty wins on the tour; one-time, one year exemptions for players in the top fifty on the who are not otherwise exempt; two-time, one year exemptions for players in the top twenty-five on the career money list; and medical exemptions for players who have been injured, which give them an opportunity to regain their tour card after a period out of the tour.

Similar to other major league sports, there is no rule limiting PGA Tour players to "men only." In 2003, Annika Sörenstam and Suzy Whaley played in PGA Tour events, and Michelle Wie has done so in each year from 2004 through 2008. None of these three made the cut, although Wie missed by only one stroke in 2004.

The LPGA like all other women's sports, is limited to female participants only.

The PGA Tour places a strong emphasis on charity fundraising, usually on behalf of local charities in cities where events are staged. With the exception of a few older events, PGA Tour rules require all Tour events to be non-profit; the Tour itself is also a non-profit company. In 2005, it started a campaign to push its all-time fundraising tally past one billion dollars ("Drive to a Billion"), and it reached that mark one week before the end of the season. However, monies raised for charities derive from the tournaments' positive revenues (if any), and not any actual monetary donation from the PGA Tour, whose purse monies and expenses are guaranteed.

There is also a PGA European Tour, which is separate from either the PGA Tour or the PGA of America; this organization runs a tour, mostly in Europe but with events throughout the world outside of North America, that is second only to the PGA Tour in worldwide prestige. There are several other regional tours around the world. However, the PGA Tour, European Tour, and many of the regional tours co-sponsor the World Golf Championships. These, along with the major championships, usually count toward the official money lists of each tour as well as the Official World Golf Ranking.

Television and radio coverage

In January 2006, the PGA Tour announced a new set of television deals covering 2007 to 2012. CBS Sports will remain the main carrier of PGA Tour golf, and will increase its events from 16 to 19 per season. NBC Sports will increase its coverage from 5 to 10 events. The Golf Channel will be the Tour's cable partner on a 15-year contract, providing early round coverage of all official money events and four round coverage of a few events at the beginning and towards the end of the season. These deals do not cover the major championships as the PGA Tour does not own the rights to them. The broadcast television rights to the majors are held by CBS (The Masters and PGA Championship), NBC (U.S. Open), and ESPN on ABC (The Open Championship). (NBC is the only major broadcast network to offer four days of major coverage over the air.) ESPN and Turner Sports are the broadcast networks' cable partners, with ESPN providing coverage of the first and second rounds of The Masters and U.S. Open and TNT covering The Open Championship and PGA Championship.

The fees involved were not mentioned in the press release, but it stated, "total prize money and other financial benefits to players will increase approximately $600 million over the term as compared to the previous six years, a 35-percent increase". ^[5]

The PGA Tour is also covered extensively outside the United States. In the United Kingdom Sky Sports was the main broadcaster of the tour for a number of years up to 2006. However Setanta Sports won exclusive UK and Ireland rights for six years from 2007 for a reported cost of £103 million. The deal includes Champions Tour and the Nationwide Tour events, but like the U.S. television deals it does not include the major championships, and unlike the U.S. deal, it does not include the World Golf Championships. Setanta set up the Setanta Golf channel to present its coverage. ^[6] On 23 June 2009 Setanta's UK arm went into administration and ceased broadcasting. Eurosport picked up the television rights for the remainder of the 2009 season. ^[7]

In the United States and Canada, radio coverage of the PGA Tour is available on XM Satellite Radio, on the PGA Tour Network, channel 146.

The structure of the PGA Tour season

Outline of the season

The table below illustrates the structure of the PGA Tour season.

Three of the four majors take place in eight weeks between June and August. In the past, this has threatened to make the last two and a half months of the season anti-climactic, as some of the very top players competed less from that point on. In response, the PGA Tour has introduced a new format, the FedEx Cup. From January through mid-August players compete in "regular season" events and earn FedEx Cup points, in addition to prize money. At the end of the regular season, the top 144 FedEx Cup points winners are eligible to compete in the "playoffs," four events taking place from mid-August to mid-September. The field sizes for these events are reduced from 144 to 120 to 70 and finally the traditional 30 for the Tour Championship. Additional FedEx Cup points are earned in these events. At the end of the championship, the top point winner is the season champion. To put this new system into place, the PGA Tour has made significant changes to the traditional schedule.

In 2007 The Players Championship moved to May so as to have a marquee event in five consecutive months. The Tour Championship moved to mid-September, with an international team event (Ryder Cup or Presidents Cup) following at the end of September. The schedule was tweaked slightly in both 2008 and 2009. After the third FedEx Cup playoff event, the BMW Championship, the Tour takes a full week off. In 2008, the break came before the Ryder Cup, with the Tour Championship the week after that. In 2009, the break will be followed by the Tour Championship, with the Presidents Cup taking place two weeks after that.

The Tour will continue through the fall, with the focus on the scramble of the less successful players to earn enough money to retain their tour cards. A circuit known as the Fall Series, originally with seven tournaments but now with five, was introduced in 2007. In its inaugural year, its events were held in seven consecutive weeks, starting the week after the Tour Championship. As was the case for the FedEx Cup playoff schedule, the Fall Series schedule was also tweaked in 2008 and 2009. The first 2008 Fall Series event was held opposite the Ryder Cup, and the Fall Series took a week off for the Tour Championship before continuing with its remaining six events.

The Fall Series saw major changes for 2009, with one of its events moving to May and another dropping off the schedule entirely. It will return to its original start date of the week after the Tour Championship. Then, as in 2008, it will take a week off, this time for the Presidents Cup. It will then continue with events in three consecutive weeks, take another week off for the HSBC Champions (now elevated to World Golf Championships status), and conclude the week after that.

2007 saw the introduction of a tournament in Mexico, an alternate event staged the same week as the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship. ^[8] A tournament in Puerto Rico was introduced in 2008 as an alternate event staged opposite the WGC-CA Championship.

Tournaments

The 2009 regular season will feature 48 events in 45 weeks, of which 47 are official money events, including four alternate events played the same week as a higher status tournament. The 48th event is the Presidents Cup team event. Most members of the tour play between 20 and 30 tournaments in the season. The geography of the tour is determined by the weather. It starts in Hawaii in January and spends most of its first two months in California and Arizona during what is known as the "West Coast Swing," and then moves to the American Southeast for the "Southern Swing." Each swing culminates in a significant tour event. In April, tour events begin to drift north. The summer months are spent mainly in the Northeast and the Midwest, and in the fall (autumn) the tour heads south again.

In most of the regular events on tour, the field is either 132, 144 or 156 players, depending on time of year (and available daylight hours). All players making the cut earn money for the tournament with the winner usually receiving 18% of the total purse.

In 2008, the PGA Tour Policy Board approved a change in the number of players that will make the cut. The cut will continue to be low 70 professionals and ties, unless that results in a post-cut field of more than 78 players. Under that circumstance, the cut score will be selected to make a field as close to 70 players as possible without exceeding 78. Players who are cut in such circumstances but who have placed 70th or better will get credit for making the cut and will earn official money and FedEx Cup points. This policy affected two of the first three events with cuts, the Sony Open in Hawaii and the Buick Invitational. In late February, the Policy Board announced a revised cut policy, effective beginning with the Honda Classic. The new policy calls for 36-hole cut to the low 70 professionals and ties and, if that cut results in more than 78 players, a second 54-hole cut to the low 70 professionals and ties. ^[9]

2009 schedule

The following table lists the main season events for 2009. The designations in the "Status" column are explained in the notes below the table. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event.

Date	Tournament	Location	Status	Winner	OWGR [10]
Jan 11	Mercedes-Benz Championship	Hawaii	Unique	Geoff Ogilvy (5)	44
Jan 18	Sony Open in Hawaii	Hawaii	Regular	Zach Johnson (5)	44
Jan 25	Bob Hope Classic	California	Regular	Pat Perez (1)	32
Feb 1	FBR Open	Arizona	Regular	Kenny Perry (13)	54
Feb 8	Buick Invitational	California	Regular	Nick Watney (2)	44
Feb 15	AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am	California	Regular	Dustin Johnson (2)	46
Feb 22	Northern Trust Open	California	Regular	Phil Mickelson (35)	62
Mar 1	Accenture Match Play Championship	Arizona	WGC	Geoff Ogilvy (6)	76
Mar 1	Mayakoba Golf Classic at Riviera Maya-Cancun	Mexico	Alternate	Mark Wilson (2)	24
Mar 8	The Honda Classic	Florida	Regular	Y.E. Yang (1)	46
Mar 15	CA Championship	Florida	WGC	Phil Mickelson (36)	78
Mar 15	Puerto Rico Open	Puerto Rico	Alternate	Michael Bradley (3)	24
Mar 22	Transitions Championship	Florida	Regular	Retief Goosen (7)	46
Mar 29	Arnold Palmer Invitational	Florida	Regular	Tiger Woods (66)	60
Apr 5	Shell Houston Open	Texas	Regular	Paul Casey (1)	62
Apr 12	Masters Tournament	Georgia	Major	Ángel Cabrera (2)	100
Apr 19	Verizon Heritage	South Carolina	Regular	Brian Gay (2)	48
Apr 26	Zurich Classic of New Orleans	Louisiana	Regular	Jerry Kelly (3)	38
May 3	Quail Hollow Championship	North Carolina	Regular	Sean O'Hair (3)	68
May 10	The Players Championship	Florida	Unique	Henrik Stenson (2)	80
May 17	Valero Texas Open	Texas	Regular	Zach Johnson (6)	26
May 24	HP Byron Nelson Championship	Texas	Regular	Rory Sabbatini (5)	44
May 31	Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial	Texas	Regular	Steve Stricker (5)	58
Jun 7	The Memorial Tournament	Ohio	Regular	Tiger Woods (67)	62
Jun 14	St. Jude Classic	Tennessee	Regular	Brian Gay (3)	46
Jun 22	U.S. Open Championship	New York	Major	Lucas Glover (2)	100
Jun 28	Travelers Championship	Connecticut	Regular	Kenny Perry (14)	48
Jul 5	AT&T National	Maryland	Regular	Tiger Woods (68)	50
Jul 12	John Deere Classic	Illinois	Regular	Steve Stricker (6)	34
Jul 19	The Open Championship (British Open)	Scotland	Major	Stewart Cink (6)	100
Jul 19	U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee	Wisconsin	Alternate	Bo Van Pelt (1)	24
Jul 26	RBC Canadian Open	Canada	Regular	Nathan Green (1)	34
Aug 2	Buick Open	Michigan	Regular	Tiger Woods (69)	36
Aug 9	Bridgestone Invitational	Ohio	WGC	Tiger Woods (70)	76
Aug 9	Legends Reno-Tahoe Open	Nevada	Alternate	John Rollins (3)	24
Aug 16	PGA Championship	Minnesota	Major	Y.E. Yang (2)	100
Aug 23	Wyndham Championship	North Carolina	Regular	Ryan Moore (1)	32
Aug 30	The Barclays	New Jersey	Playoffs	Heath Slocum (3)	70
Sep 7	Deutsche Bank Championship	Massachusetts	Playoffs
Sep 13	BMW Championship	Illinois	Playoffs
Sep 27	The Tour Championship	Georgia	Playoffs
Oct 4	Turning Stone Resort Championship	New York	Fall Series
Oct 11	Presidents Cup	California	Team		n/a
Oct 18	Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open	Nevada	Fall Series
Oct 25	Frys.com Open	Arizona	Fall Series
Nov 1	Viking Classic	Mississippi	Fall Series
Nov 15	Children's Miracle Network Classic	Florida	Fall Series

Event categories

• Majors : The four leading annual events in world golf are the Masters Tournament, U.S. Open, The (British) Open Championship, and the PGA Championship. These events each automatically receive 100 OWGR points.
• World Golf Championships (WGC) : A set of events co-sanctioned by the International Federation of PGA Tours which attract the leading golfers from all over the world, including those who are not members of the PGA Tour.
• Unique : Two tournaments rate as unique, for different reasons:
• *The Mercedes-Benz Championship, the first tournament of the season, has a field consisting of winners from the previous season's competition only (as reflected in its title from 1953-1993: "Tournament of Champions"). This results in a field much smaller than any other tournament, with no cut after 36 holes of play.
• *The Players Championship is the only event, apart from the majors and the World Golf Championships, which attracts entries from almost all of the world's elite golfers. Official recognition is given to its unique position in the sport by the Official World Golf Rankings. Like a major tournament, it is allocated a fixed number of OWGR points (80), albeit 20% less than for a major. (The number of points allocated to "regular" events is dependent on the rankings of the players who enter each year, and is only determined once the entry list is finalized.) In North America, some people would like to make the tournament an official major with a ranking equal to the current majors in the FedEx Cup point system. However there is little support for this in the rest of the world, and any revision to the points system for the world rankings would require a global consensus.
• Playoff event : The last four tournaments of the FedEx Cup have fields based on the FedEx Cup rankings. The top 125 players on the points list are entered in the Barclays Classic. Each week after that fields are cut: Deutsche Bank Championship to the top 100 players; BMW Championship to 70 players; The Tour Championship to 30 players.
• Team : A United States team of 12 elite players competes in the Ryder Cup and the Presidents Cup in alternate years. The Ryder Cup, pitting a team of U.S. golfers against a European team, is arguably the highest profile event in golf, outranking the majors. The Presidents Cup, which matches a team of U.S. golfers against an international team of golfers not eligible for the Ryder Cup, is less well established, but is still the main event of the week when it is played. There is no prize money in these events, so they are irrelevant to the money list, but an immense amount of pride rides on the results.
• Regular : Routine weekly tour events. The "regular" events vary somewhat in status, but this is fairly subjective and not usually based on the size of the purse. Some of the factors which can determine the status of a tournament are:
• *Its position in the schedule, which influences the number of leading players that choose to enter.
• *Its age and the distinction of its past champions.
• *The repute of the course on which it is played.
• *Any associations with "legends of golf". Six events in particular have such associations:
• **The HP Byron Nelson Championship, named after Byron Nelson, was until 2007 the only current event named after a PGA Tour golfer.
• **The Arnold Palmer Invitational, formerly the Bay Hill Invitational, closely identified with Arnold Palmer and played at a resort he owns.
• **The Northern Trust Open and Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, both identified with Ben Hogan, although the Colonial is more closely identified with him since he won that tournament five times.
• **The Memorial Tournament, founded by Jack Nicklaus, played on a course he designed, and annually honoring a selected "legend".
• **The AT&T National, while not hosted by a "legend," was able to gather a strong field because it was hosted by "future-legend" Tiger Woods.
• Invitational : These events are similar to the regular ones, but have a slightly smaller (around 100-120 players), selective field. The top 70 on the previous year's money list can automatically take part in invitationals, as well as past champions of the event. There is an increased amount of sponsor's exemptions as well, and some invitationals allow the defending champion to invite one or several amateurs to compete. Invitational tournaments include the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, the Arnold Palmer Invitational, the Verizon Heritage, the Memorial Tournament and others. The tournaments usually do have an association with a golf legend, or in the case of the Verizon Heritage, a famous course.
• Alternate : Events which are played in the same week as a higher status tournament and therefore have weakened fields and reduced prize money. They are often considered an opportunity for players on the bubble (near or below 125th or 150th) in the money list to move up more easily or to attempt an easier two-year exemption for winning a tournament. Because of their weaker fields, these events usually receive the minimum amount of points reserved for PGA Tour events (24 points).
• Fall Series : After the final playoff event of the FedEx Cup season (The Tour Championship), the season concludes with this series of events, usually passed on by the higher-status players. This provides an opportunity for players low on the Money List to increase their season's earnings enough to rank in the "magic" 125 and thus secure their "card" for the following season without having to re-qualify through Q-School.

There are also a number of events which are recognized by the PGA Tour, but which do not count towards the official money list. Most of these take place in the off season (November and December). This slate of unofficial, often made-for-TV events (which includes the PGA Grand Slam of Golf, the Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge, the Franklin Templeton Shootout, the Skins Game, etc.) is referred to as the "Challenge Season" or more disapprovingly as the "Silly Season".

2009 money leaders

This shows the money leaders for the 2009 PGA Tour season as of August 30, 2009.

Rank	Player	Country	Events	Prize money ($)
1	Tiger Woods		14	8,183,163
2	Steve Stricker		19	4,695,086
3	Kenny Perry		21	4,071,137
4	Zach Johnson		22	4,033,088
5	Phil Mickelson		15	3,885,911
6	Lucas Glover		23	3,442,942
7	Geoff Ogilvy		17	3,441,995
8	Y.E. Yang		20	3,308,316
9	Sean O'Hair		20	3,221,493
10	Brian Gay		22	2,996,145

There is a full list on the PGA Tour's website .

Money winners and most wins leaders

Players who lead the money list on the PGA Tour win the Arnold Palmer Award (since 1981).

Year	Money winner	Earnings (US$)	Most wins
2008	Vijay Singh	6,601,094	4: Tiger Woods
2007	Tiger Woods	10,867,052	7: Tiger Woods
2006	Tiger Woods	9,941,563	8: Tiger Woods
2005	Tiger Woods	10,628,024	6: Tiger Woods
2004	Vijay Singh	10,905,166	9: Vijay Singh
2003	Vijay Singh	7,573,907	5: Tiger Woods
2002	Tiger Woods	6,912,625	5: Tiger Woods
2001	Tiger Woods	5,687,777	5: Tiger Woods
2000	Tiger Woods	9,188,321	9: Tiger Woods
1999	Tiger Woods	6,616,585	8: Tiger Woods
1998	David Duval	2,591,031	4: David Duval
1997	Tiger Woods	2,066,833	4: Tiger Woods
1996	Tom Lehman	1,780,159	4: Phil Mickelson
1995	Greg Norman	1,654,959	3: Lee Janzen, Greg Norman
1994	Nick Price	1,499,927	6: Nick Price
1993	Nick Price	1,478,557	4: Nick Price
1992	Fred Couples	1,344,188	3: John Cook; Fred Couples; Davis Love III
1991	Corey Pavin	979,430	2: 8 players (note 1)
1990	Greg Norman	1,165,477	4: Wayne Levi
1989	Tom Kite	1,395,278	3: Tom Kite; Steve Jones
1988	Curtis Strange	1,147,644	4: Curtis Strange
1987	Curtis Strange	925,941	3: Paul Azinger; Curtis Strange
1986	Greg Norman	653,296	4: Bob Tway
1985	Curtis Strange	542,321	3: Curtis Strange; Lanny Wadkins
1984	Tom Watson	476,260	3: Tom Watson; Denis Watson
1983	Hal Sutton	426,668	2: 8 players (note 2)
1982	Craig Stadler	446,462	4: Craig Stadler, Tom Watson, Calvin Peete
1981	Tom Kite	375,699	4: Bill Rogers
1980	Tom Watson	530,808	7: Tom Watson
1979	Tom Watson	462,636	5: Tom Watson
1978	Tom Watson	362,429	5: Tom Watson
1977	Tom Watson	310,653	5: Tom Watson
1976	Jack Nicklaus	266,439	3: Ben Crenshaw, Hubert Green
1975	Jack Nicklaus	298,149	5: Jack Nicklaus
1974	Johnny Miller	353,022	8: Johnny Miller
1973	Jack Nicklaus	308,362	7: Jack Nicklaus
1972	Jack Nicklaus	320,542	7: Jack Nicklaus
1971	Jack Nicklaus	244,491	6: Lee Trevino
1970	Lee Trevino	157,037	4: Billy Casper
1969	Frank Beard	164,707	3: 4 players (note 3)
1968	Billy Casper	205,169	6: Billy Casper
1967	Jack Nicklaus	188,998	5: Jack Nicklaus
1966	Billy Casper	121,945	4: Billy Casper
1965	Jack Nicklaus	140,752	5: Jack Nicklaus
1964	Jack Nicklaus	113,285	5: Tony Lema
1963	Arnold Palmer	128,230	7: Arnold Palmer
1962	Arnold Palmer	81,448	8: Arnold Palmer
1961	Gary Player	64,540	6: Arnold Palmer
1960	Arnold Palmer	75,263	8: Arnold Palmer
1959	Art Wall, Jr.	53,168	5: Gene Littler
1958	Arnold Palmer	42,608	4: Ken Venturi
1957	Dick Mayer	65,835	4: Arnold Palmer
1956	Ted Kroll	72,836	4: Mike Souchak
1955	Julius Boros	63,122	6: Cary Middlecoff
1954	Bob Toski	65,820	4: Bob Toski
1953	Lew Worsham	34,002	5: Ben Hogan
1952	Julius Boros	37,033	5: Jack Burke, Jr., Sam Snead
1951	Lloyd Mangrum	26,089	6: Cary Middlecoff
1950	Sam Snead	35,759	11: Sam Snead
1949	Sam Snead	31,594	7: Cary Middlecoff
1948	Ben Hogan	32,112	10: Ben Hogan
1947	Jimmy Demaret	27,937	7: Ben Hogan
1946	Ben Hogan	42,556	13: Ben Hogan
1945	Byron Nelson	63,336	18: Byron Nelson
1944	Byron Nelson	37,968	8: Byron Nelson
1943	No records kept
1: Sam Byrd, Harold McSpaden, Steve Warga
1942	Ben Hogan	13,143	6: Ben Hogan
1941	Ben Hogan	18,358	7: Sam Snead
1940	Ben Hogan	10,655	6: Jimmy Demaret
1939	Henry Picard	10,303	8: Henry Picard
1938	Sam Snead	19,534	8: Sam Snead
1937	Harry Cooper	14,139	8: Harry Cooper
1936	Horton Smith	7,682	3: Ralph Guldahl, Jimmy Hines, Henry Picard
1935	Johnny Revolta	9,543	5: Henry Picard, Johnny Revolta
1934	Paul Runyan	6,767	7: Paul Runyan
1933	N/A	N/A	9: Paul Runyan
1932	N/A	N/A	4: Gene Sarazen
1931	N/A	N/A	4: Wilfred Cox
1930	N/A	N/A	8: Gene Sarazen
1929	N/A	N/A	8: Horton Smith
1928	N/A	N/A	7: Bill Mehlhorn
1927	N/A	N/A	7: Johnny Farrell
1926	N/A	N/A	5: Bill Mehlhorn, Macdonald Smith
1925	N/A	N/A	5: Leo Diegel
1924	N/A	N/A	5: Walter Hagen
1923	N/A	N/A	5: Walter Hagen, Joe Kirkwood, Sr.
1922	N/A	N/A	4: Walter Hagen
1921	N/A	N/A	4: Jim Barnes
1920	N/A	N/A	4: Jock Hutchison
1919	N/A	N/A	5: Jim Barnes
1918	N/A	N/A	1: Patrick Doyle, Walter Hagen, Jock Hutchison
1917	N/A	N/A	2: Jim Barnes, Mike Brady
1916	N/A	N/A	3: Jim Barnes

Notes: # Players with 2 wins in 1991: Billy Andrade, Mark Brooks, Fred Couples, Andrew Magee, Corey Pavin, Nick Price, Tom Purtzer, Ian Woosnam # Players with 2 wins in 1983: Seve Ballesteros, Jim Colbert, Mark McCumber, Gil Morgan, Calvin Peete, Hal Sutton, Lanny Wadkins, Fuzzy Zoeller # Players with 3 wins in 1969: Billy Casper, Raymond Floyd, Dave Hill, Jack Nicklaus

Multiple money list titles

The following players have won more than one money list title through 2008:

• 8: Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods
• 5: Ben Hogan, Tom Watson
• 4: Arnold Palmer
• 3: Sam Snead, Curtis Strange, Greg Norman, Vijay Singh
• 2: Byron Nelson, Julius Boros, Billy Casper, Tom Kite, Nick Price

Player and rookie of the year awards

PGA Tour players compete for two player of the year awards. The PGA Player of the Year award dates back to 1948 and is awarded by the PGA of America. Since 1982 the winner has been selected using a points system with marks awarded for wins, money list position and scoring average. The PGA Tour Player of the Year award, also known as the Jack Nicklaus Trophy , is administered by the PGA Tour and was introduced in 1990; the recipient is selected by the tour players by ballot, although the results are not released other than to say who has won. More often than not the same player wins both awards; in fact, as seen in the table below, the PGA and PGA Tour Players of the Year have been the same every year from 1992 through 2008. The Rookie of the Year award was also introduced in 1990. Players are eligible in their first season of PGA Tour membership; several of the winners had a good deal of international success before their PGA Tour rookie season, and some have been in their thirties when they won the award.

Year	PGA Player of the Year	PGA Tour Player of the Year	PGA Tour Rookie of the Year	Comeback Player of the Year
2008	Pádraig Harrington	Pádraig Harrington	Andrés Romero	Dudley Hart
2007	Tiger Woods	Tiger Woods	Brandt Snedeker	Steve Stricker
2006	Tiger Woods	Tiger Woods	Trevor Immelman	Steve Stricker
2005	Tiger Woods	Tiger Woods	Sean O'Hair	Jay Haas
2004	Vijay Singh	Vijay Singh	Todd Hamilton	John Daly
2003	Tiger Woods	Tiger Woods	Ben Curtis	Peter Jacobsen
2002	Tiger Woods	Tiger Woods	Jonathan Byrd	Gene Sauers
2001	Tiger Woods	Tiger Woods	Charles Howell III	Joe Durant
2000	Tiger Woods	Tiger Woods	Michael Clark II	Paul Azinger
1999	Tiger Woods	Tiger Woods	Carlos Franco	Steve Pate
1998	Mark O'Meara	Mark O'Meara	Steve Flesch	Scott Verplank
1997	Tiger Woods	Tiger Woods	Stewart Cink	Bill Glasson
1996	Tom Lehman	Tom Lehman	Tiger Woods	Steve Jones
1995	Greg Norman	Greg Norman	Woody Austin	Bob Tway
1994	Nick Price	Nick Price	Ernie Els	Hal Sutton
1993	Nick Price	Nick Price	Vijay Singh	Howard Twitty
1992	Fred Couples	Fred Couples	Mark Carnevale	John Cook
1991	Corey Pavin	Fred Couples	John Daly	Bruce Fleisher, D. A. Weibring
1990	Nick Faldo	Wayne Levi	Robert Gamez

Year	PGA Player of the Year
1989	Tom Kite
1988	Curtis Strange
1987	Paul Azinger
1986	Bob Tway
1985	Lanny Wadkins
1984	Tom Watson
1983	Hal Sutton
1982	Tom Watson
1981	Bill Rogers
1980	Tom Watson
1979	Tom Watson
1978	Tom Watson
1977	Tom Watson
1976	Jack Nicklaus
1975	Jack Nicklaus
1974	Johnny Miller
1973	Jack Nicklaus
1972	Jack Nicklaus
1971	Lee Trevino
1970	Billy Casper
1969	Orville Moody
1968	No award
1967	Jack Nicklaus
1966	Billy Casper
1965	Dave Marr
1964	Ken Venturi
1963	Julius Boros
1962	Arnold Palmer
1961	Jerry Barber
1960	Arnold Palmer
1959	Art Wall, Jr.
1958	Dow Finsterwald
1957	Dick Mayer
1956	Jack Burke, Jr.
1955	Doug Ford
1954	Ed Furgol
1953	Ben Hogan
1952	Julius Boros
1951	Ben Hogan
1950	Ben Hogan
1949	Sam Snead
1948	Ben Hogan

Multiple Player of the Year Awards

The following players have won more than one PGA Player of the Year Award through 2008:

• 9: Tiger Woods
• 6: Tom Watson
• 5: Jack Nicklaus
• 4: Ben Hogan
• 2: Julius Boros, Billy Casper, Arnold Palmer, Nick Price

The following players have won more than one PGA Tour Player of the Year Award through 2008:

• 9: Tiger Woods
• 2: Fred Couples, Nick Price

Career money leaders

The table shows the top ten career money leaders on the PGA Tour as of August 16, 2009. Due to increases in prize funds over the years, this list consists entirely of current players. The figures are not the players' complete career prize money as they do not include FedEx Cup bonuses, winnings from unofficial money events, or earnings on other tours such as the European Tour. In addition, elite golfers often earn several times as much from endorsements and golf-related business interests as they do from prize money.

Rank	Player	Country	Prize money ($)
1	Tiger Woods		90,042,539
2	Vijay Singh		61,969,102
3	Phil Mickelson		54,391,412
4	Jim Furyk		41,326,541
5	Davis Love III		38,779,710
6	Ernie Els		35,059,808
7	David Toms		31,370,344
8	Kenny Perry		30,250,179
9	Justin Leonard		28,697,399
10	Stewart Cink		27,614,899

There is a full list on the PGA Tour's website .

Notes and references

1. PGA.com - history - 1960-69
2. PGA.com - history - 1970-79
3. Pro Golf Tour Changes Name
4. Tour Changes Its Name Again
5. PGA Tour reaches television agreements
6. Broadcaster is seeking £200m for TV soccer. ''The Sunday Times'', 1 July 2006.
7. Eurosport to show remainder of 2009 Tour events in UK
8. PGA Tour to conduct official-money event in Mexico
9. PGA Tour Policy Board makes immediate changes to cut policy
10. Each tournament is allocated a certain number of Official World Golf Rankings points for its champion, and points for lower finishes are based on a sliding scale. The major championships and the Players Championship have fixed allocations, but the points of the other tournaments depend on the strength of the field so they are not available in advance.

See also

• Professional golf tours
• Golfers with most PGA Tour wins
• Most PGA Tour wins in a year
• Most wins in one PGA Tour event
• 2009 in golf
• Vardon Trophy