Tiger's POP Quiz
Gary Van Sickle
November 08, 1999
With seven victories and $5.6 million in earnings, Tiger Woods has left no doubt as to who's the man on the PGA Tour in 1999. The question is, how does his year stack up against the best seasons ever? One way to find out is to rank the leading money winners according to their percentage of purse (POP) number. To determine POP, we took each year's top earner and divided his winnings by the prize money available in the events he entered. Here are the top 10 seasons, based on POP, since 1960. (P.S. If Woods wins this week, he will move up to seventh, with a POP of 11.24.)
With seven victories and $5.6 million in earnings, Tiger Woods has left no doubt as to who's the man on the PGA Tour in 1999. The question is, how does his year stack up against the best seasons ever? One way to find out is to rank the leading money winners according to their percentage of purse (POP) number. To determine POP, we took each year's top earner and divided his winnings by the prize money available in the events he entered. Here are the top 10 seasons, based on POP, since 1960. (P.S. If Woods wins this week, he will move up to seventh, with a POP of 11.24.)
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