{"id":1559751,"date":"2023-04-28T16:29:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T20:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1559751"},"modified":"2023-04-28T16:29:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T20:29:20","slug":"liv-golf-players-officially-removed-from-pga-tour-all-time-money-list-not-spite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/liv-golf-players-officially-removed-from-pga-tour-all-time-money-list-not-spite\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf Players Were Officially Removed From the PGA Tour's All-Time Money List But Not Out of Spite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
If one were to go to the official website of the PGA Tour<\/a> looking for the all-time leading money winners, you'd, of course, see Tiger Woods<\/a> at the top — where he's been for quite some time now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Woods is the only player in PGA Tour history to crack the $100 million mark, which he accomplished in September 2012, and he's added more than $20 million since then. He's obviously made far more than that outside the ropes, but we're talking only about official on-course earnings here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, here's where things get confusing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n On the actual<\/em> all-time PGA Tour money list<\/a>, Tiger's longtime rival, Phil Mickelson<\/a>, sits in second place with more than $96 million in on-course earnings, while Dustin Johnson takes the third-place spot with close to $75 million. <\/p>\n\n\n\n At PGATour.com, however, you'll see Rory McIlroy in second place and Jim Furyk in third. So why the discrepancy? Well, it's actually quite simple. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Mickelson and Johnson, of course, left the PGA Tour in 2022 to join LIV Golf<\/a>. And that's why you won't find them or anyone else who defected to the Saudi-backed series on the “official” money list. Now, some might think that was done out of spite. Truth be told, however, the removal was done for a very specific reason. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For those unaware, the PGA Tour allows players to use a one-time exemption for being in the top 50 on the all-time money list and another for being in the top 25. Naturally, these exemptions are used by older players who would otherwise lose their full-time status. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This is why the LIV Golf guys were removed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And that removal paid immediate dividends to six-time PGA Tour winner Rory Sabbatini. At the conclusion of the 2020-21 season, he was set to lose his status but opted to use his top-50 exemption to keep his card, as he ranked 29th on the all-time money list. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And at the end of the 2021-22 campaign, Sabbatini was again set to lose his card as he'd failed to finish in the top 125 of the FedEx Cup<\/a> standings and was 31st on the all-time money list. <\/p>\n\n\n\n However, once the LIV Golf players were removed, he vaulted up to 25th, allowing him to use the top-25 exemption for the 2022-23 PGA Tour season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, again, the move wasn't made out of spite but served a specific purpose. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Those who left for LIV Golf are no longer included on the all-time PGA Tour money list for a specific reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":1559793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95787],"tags":[87013,447292,13907],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nLIV Golf players were removed from the all-time PGA Tour money list for a specific reason<\/h2>\n\n\n\n