Leading Career Money Winners
The table below shows the top 10 career money leaders on the European Tour after the 2011 season. Due to increases in prize money over the years, it is dominated by current players. The figures are not the players' complete career earnings as most of them have earned millions more on other tours (especially the PGA Tour) or from non-tour events. In addition, elite golfers often earn several times as much from endorsements and golf-related business interests as they do from prize money.
| Rank | Player | Country | Prize money (€) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ernie Els | South Africa | 28,300,444 |
| 2 | Lee Westwood | England | 28,018,135 |
| 3 | Colin Montgomerie | Scotland | 24,496,592 |
| 4 | Pádraig Harrington | Ireland | 23,336,794 |
| 5 | Retief Goosen | South Africa | 21,795,334 |
| 6 | Darren Clarke | Northern Ireland | 19,917,932 |
| 7 | Miguel Ángel Jiménez | Spain | 19,980,336 |
| 8 | Ian Poulter | England | 18,009,583 |
| 9 | Sergio García | Spain | 17,153,107 |
| 10 | Thomas Bjørn | Denmark | 16,366,534 |
As of 25 November 2012
There is a list of the top 100 on the European Tour's website here .
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