In 2000, a 24-year-old Tiger Woods dominated the PGA Tour with nine wins, three major championships and 17 top-10 finishes in 20 starts. The golf legend banked $10.7 million in on-course earnings that season, setting a then-PGA record.
Jamie Kennedy of Golf Digest recently calculated what Woods’ impressive 2000 season would have earned him in 2024, and the results are shocking.
According to Kennedy, who cross-matched Woods’ 20 starts with the most similar events in 2024, Woods would have earned a staggering $92,333,970 if his 2000 season happened today. For reference, Scottie Scheffler set the record for the most prize money earned in a season with $21,014,032 last year. Woods’ hypothetical season would’ve demolished that record by more than $70 million.
This exercise serves as a good lesson for those comparing Scheffler to prime Tiger.
Scheffler has been the best player in the world for two years, but he has never accomplished anything close to what Woods did in 2000.
In 2000, Woods finished outside the top 11 only twice in 20 starts. He won the U.S. Open by 15 shots, the Open Championship by eight, the WGC-NEC Invitational by 11 and the Memorial Tournament by five.
Scheffler has nine wins in his entire five-year career, and he has never won a tournament by more than five strokes. That level of dominance Woods displayed in 2000 will likely never be replicated on the PGA Tour again.
It’s just too bad Woods couldn’t save it for 2024.
