The biggest money-winner in the history of the LPGA Tour is Swedish star Annika Sorenstam, who earned a massive $22.5 million in a career spanning 15 years from 1993 to 2008, when she retired.

With 72 tournament victories and a record eight Player of the Year awards, Sorenstam is widely accepted as the best woman to have picked up a club and her bank balance appears to back that up as well.

More than $8 million behind Sorenstam is Australian competitor Karrie Webb, who had earned $14.3 million in her career up to the start of 2009. Webb has won just over $1 million more than third-placed Lorena Ochoa, who has been Player of the Year for each of the last three years.

Surprisingly, the highest-earning American does not make the top three. Juli Inkster has amassed a total of $12.45 million in a 25-year career that has seen her win an impressive 31 LPGA Tour events, the most recent coming in 2006.

She is followed in the all-time money list by Korea's Se Ri Pak, whose relatively short career (starting in 2007) has delivered over $10 million in prize money.

There is a much greater American influence in the second half of the top 10, though, with the next three spots being taken by Stateside stars Meg Mallon ($9 million), Cristie Kerr ($8.9 million) and Beth Daniel ($8.75 million).

England's star of women's golf, Laura Davies, is still in the top 10 despite not winning an event since 2001. She has made $8.5 million on the LPGA Tour between 1986 and 2008.

America's Rosie Jones completes the list of highest earners with a total of $8.35 million before her retirement in 2006.