Dramatic recent increases in prize-money mean that the list of all-time money winners on the PGA Tour is predictably dominated by current players.

Top of the pile by an ever-expanding margin is Tiger Woods, without doubt one of the greatest golfers in the history of the sport.

Despite only making his PGA Tour debut in 1996, by the start of the 2009 season he had accumulated total tour earnings of over US $83 million, a figure which does not include his earnings in non-Tour events or outside the United States.

Woods has won a total of 66 PGA Tour events, putting him third on the all-time list behind Sam Snead and Jack Nicklaus, and done much to promote the sport of golf itself, his victories drawing the largest televised audiences in golf history.

Fijian Vijay Singh is next in the money-winners' list, with more than US $60 million, three Major victories and 31 further PGA Tour victories to his name.

Singh was the highest-earning player on Tour in 2003, 2004 and 2008, and has been a member of the Tour since 1993.

Three times top of the money list for an individual year (1985, 1987 and 1988), Curtis Strange was the first man to win more than US $1 million in a year.

Jack Nicklaus accumulated over US $5 million in career earnings despite being at his peak during an era when prize-money was far lower than present levels. Along with Woods, he holds the record for having finished top of the money list on the most occasions (eight) at the start of the 2009 season.