Tiger Woods winning a golf competition in 2022 would have been an afterthought earlier this year, but he’ll have to settle for a big win of course. Woods finished first on the PGA Tour’s Player Impact Program for the second year in a row, this time ahead of his friend and business partner, Rory McIlroy, according to the Associated Press.
Woods finished first last year even though he didn’t play a round of golf on the PGA Tour. First place is worth 10 million dollars; However, the number is significantly more, as the overall purse for PIP has grown from $40 million in 2021 to $100 million in 2022, according to PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan earlier in the year. now at the Tour Championship. Woods only played a total of nine rounds in 2022, but each of them has received significant interest from everyone in the golf world, which is how one of them ranks highly in the annual PIP. He played four times mastersthree at the PGA Championship and two at the Open Championship in St. Andrews.
The Tour increased its prize pool this year and into 2023. Not only did it bring the PIP fund from $40 million to $100 million, but it also expanded the pool of recipients from 10 to 20, lifting several PGA Tour wallets. to $20 million and continues to invest in the FedEx Cup prize fund (it went from $15 million a year ago to $18 million this year).
Woods is the most likely person to win the award again since he mocked Phil Mickelson on Twitter after Mickelson boasted he had won the 2021 award when in fact he didn’t.
According to the AP, McIlroy received $12 million in second place, putting his annual PGA Tour earnings around $40 million. This number is important because it is almost twice the amount he has ever earned before. His earlier career highs came back in 2019 when he won the FedEx Cup and $15 million in first place and another $8 million in the regular season.
As pointed out in the AP, there are two evaluation criteria used this year to determine PIP.
Two listings are in the works – the initial PIP plan uses metrics like social engagement, brand exposure, Q-rank, Internet searches and awareness, and The new criteria are based more on media mentions and ad impressions than on social media.
The PIP was also expanded to 20 players instead of 10, and using both lists for 2022, around 23 players are expected to receive $100 million in prize money.
This cash flow was created against LIV Golf and players who left the PGA Tour to get substantial returns from the Tour to LIV move. Interestingly, one of the LIV participants actually had one of the best Tiger and PIP things I’ve seen. Pat Perez spoke about it at the Genesis Invitational back in February while he was still on the PGA Tour.
“It was a joke, but like I said, the PIP program is a joke,” Perez said. “Give Tiger No. 40 [million] and say we owe you another zero. They easily owe Tiger 400, 500 million. There should be no program. Here’s yours, here’s 50, thanks for it’s unbelievable, this is how much we owe you for giving us hundreds of millions of dollars. Guys like me, you know, to be able to make a few million dollars a year is unthinkable and it’s only because of him. It’s just him, you know. So like I said, I’m a good fit for Tiger. But if Phil is pushing for more money for our tour and fighting for it, that’s great, but he seems to be on the side of Saudi Arabia to the point that it’s hard to believe he’s actually doing it. fight for it. “
Mickelson finished second behind Tiger in last year’s PIP.
The top 20 players in this year’s PIP are expected to play the Tour’s new enhanced schedule in 2023, including 13 amateurs with big prize pools and ostensibly all the top players in the world. gender. McIlroy and Woods played a key role in forging this consensus during a meeting in Delaware during the FedEx Cup Playoffs earlier this year.
