I was looking in the paper this morning at yesterday’s gold results, and the “box score” lists each golfers scores followed by their earnings for that tournament. This is the same for the men’s, women’s and senior’s tours. And periodically the paper will list the golfers’ season’s totals. I get a weekly magazine that lists every golfer’s earnings even for the “minor league” tours.
Is there any reason golf does this but so few other individual sports do?
Today’s paper also had the results of the weekend’s triathalon, but nowhere did it report the check earned by the winner. I remember being unsuccessful a while back in my attempt to find what world cup skiers earned. Tennis, auto racing, marathon, cross country skiing, speedskating - why is success in golf represented in terms of money won, and not in any other sports I am aware of?
Yeah - I guess I remember hearing that about rodeo. I was just surprised more sports do not do so.
Looked at those NASCAR and tennis results. Tennis it looked like the points leaders and money winners were the same - at least at the top. But not so in auto racing.
It is the way they rank golfers on tour, since their pay is directly tied to their performance. It is also used as a method for determining who makes the invite list for certain tournaments. That isn’t the case with most other sports.
The PGA reports its money list because the money list is the de facto world ranking. The money list determines most exemptions (to qualifying for majors for example) and such.
The reason it works that way is pretty simple- golf has multiple tours, while tennis (for example) is one big one.
Yeah - but why is it done differently in golf than other sports? In tennis isn’t pay based on performance? I presume the winner of Wimbledon makes significantly more than the person he/she beats…
In golf money also determines whether you get to keep your tour card for next year - top 125 retain their cards. And the top winners (10?25?) on the Nationwide tour get to move up to the bigs.
And in golf there is an award for the top money winner, as well as the low average score. But neither of those is determinative of who is named golfer of the year.
Why do winter sports simply tell you who are the “point leaders” without telling you how much they have won - or even how much a win at an individual event is worth. And why would points be different than winnings, with more points/dollars won at the more prestigious events?
It just seems to me odd - like the organizers of the marathon or pro volleyball tourneys for some reason don’t want to disclose the moneys paid to the top finishers. Is golf overly focused on the money earned, or are other sports trying to downplay the significance of earnings? Anyone have any idea how long golf has been focusing on earnings.
Please show me where to find results for skiing - or luge. I tried quite a bit, but was unable to find it.
I found stats for golf from here. Why are so few other individual sports as up front about earnings?
Well, not really, because like in tennis, I believe golf rankings track performance over quite a long time period. If you look right now, PGA money leaders are:
1.Tiger
2.Veej
3.Mick
4.Kenny Perry
5.Paddy
World money list is
1 Tiger
2.Mick
3.Perry
4.Paddy
5.Veej
But the world rankings are:
1.Tiger
2.Mick
3.Paddy
4.Serg
5.Veej
with Kenny Perry 17th.
And my money is behind the Irishman and his 2 majors winning golfer-of-the-year.
Hell, those numbers make things even more confusing.
Mick is listed as having won right around $4.6 mill on both the world and PGA money charts.
Veej is listed as having own $5.1 mill on the PGA, but only $3.9 in all of the world!
I would have thought that all of the PGA was included in the world!
Thanks. I must have been stupid in my googling before. But is that clear to you? The 1st site mention CHF. I guess I could solve that through googling, but what does it mean to you that the all time highest winning skier earned “CHF 561.646”, and the leeading mens x-country skier earned “CHF 312.250”?
And as far as listing the seasonal standings on the pro tour, it certainly is not as upfront as golf/rodeo.
Well yeah, that’s pretty obvious. But what I was wondering was why golf and rodeo choose to list earnings so prominently, while the majority of other sports don’t seem to.
Most of the Golf rankings are determined by earnings. The exception for the the PGA are the new FedEx cup race and the World Golf Rankings. For most of the professional golf associations the money rank will determine if you get to retain your tour card for the next season. I believe the PGA is top 125 are fully exempt; 126 to 150 are partially exempt and the rest are left to fend for themselves in Q school or on the nationwide tour.
Some tournaments count towards both the European PGA and the US PGA - typically the majors and the World Golf Championships.
Why other sports don’t do this is unclear but I suppose if A-ROD makes $25million and play in 150 games he is making some 160k per game. If he gets up 4 times that is 40k per at bat…
