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November
2017.
World’s Top 10 Golfers Earn $781 Per Swing, Study Finds

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Glasgow, United Kingdom, 21st November 2017

 

World's Top 10 Golfers Earn $781 Per Swing, Study Finds

 

The world's top 10 male golfers have earned an average of $781 for every shot in their professional careers, a new study finds.

 

Sports and fitness site Noob Norm analysed 20 years of tour data to arrive at the figure, which includes all shots played in PGA tour events.

 

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World number 2 Jordan Spieth topped the rich list, banking a cool $1,104 for every shot he has played since turning pro in 2012, while Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy also broke the $1K barrier, earning an average of $1,073 per shot.

 

Noob Norm co-founder David McSweeney explains how they calculated each player's average earnings per shot:

 

"The PGA website lists all of a player's scores over the course of their professional career, alongside their earnings. By collecting all the score data into a spreadsheet, we were able to calculate the average earnings per shot for each player in the top 10."

 

Current world number 1, the USA's Dustin Johnson, has a career average of $859 per shot, however, in 2017 he banked $1,696 for every swing of the club.

 

While the current top 10's earnings per shot are impressive, there is one golfer, currently without an official world ranking, who has earned more than any of them.

 

David explains "It's probably no surprise that the golfer with the highest average earnings per shot over the course of his career is Tiger Woods. Tiger's average earnings per shot of $1,282 puts him way ahead of the current top 10. His best year was 2008, when he earned a crazy $4,191 per shot."

 

Tiger Woods is set to return to competitive golf at the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas, which begins on November 30th.

 

The full study, along with detailed stats for each player, can be foundhere.

 

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For more information contact David McSweeney by email hello@noobnorm.com