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Tiger Woods has won $8m (£5.99m) for generating more media interest than any other golfer in 2021 – even though he played just one tournament all year.
Woods is the first winner of the PGA Tour’s Player Impact Programme (PIP).
The scheme was introduced to reward competitors for generating positive interest in the American circuit.
The former world number one has career earnings on the tour in excess of $120m (£89.96m), despite not having played an official tour event for over a year.
An exhibition parent-child tournament last December was his only competitive action in 2021.
Tour officials originally stated that they would not make PIP results public, but the 10 players who profited have been revealed in a memo to PGA Tour members.
In December, Phil Mickelson mistakenly claimed that he had won the biggest share of the $40m prize fund. He actually finished second to Woods and…
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