Par on the PGA Tour

Ever wonder how well you would do if you shot par every week on the PGA Tour? I looked at a few tournaments from this season and crunched the numbers. On average, when the winning score is between 15-20 under par, those who shot even made around $12,500 (in some tournaments shooting par was much more of an accomplishment due to the higher winning score, so I threw those results out.) So if your average player--let's call him Troy Atkinson--participated in 30 events, excepting the Majors and the elite invitationals (Mercedes, TPC, etc.), shooting par would net him $375,000 at season's end. In 2006, this would have put him in 168th place on the money list, which is not good enough to garner playing privileges for the next year, though it does offer Troy some provisional status. Of course, the pattern for most players is one of hot/cold: one week they miss the cut, then the next week they make a cut and place high enough to earn $50,000. Hopefully, they can do this enough times to total the $495,314 needed to place 150th or better on the tour money list (in 2006) and have full playing privileges. Wow--these guys really are good.

(Stats from PGATour.com)

PGA TOUR

2006 Money Leaders
Complete Through THE TOUR Championship - November 05, 2006

RANK	NAME	EARNINGS	EVENTS	WINS
1	Tiger Woods	$9,941,563	15	8
2	Jim Furyk	$7,213,316	24	2
3	Adam Scott	$4,978,858	19	1
4	Vijay Singh	$4,602,417	27	1
5	Geoff Ogilvy	$4,354,970	20	2
6	Phil Mickelson	$4,256,506	19	2
7	Trevor Immelman	$3,844,190	24	1
8	Stuart Appleby	$3,470,459	23	2
9	Luke Donald	$3,177,410	18	1
10	Brett Wetterich	$3,023,185	25	1
11	David Toms	$2,911,187	22	1
12	Rory Sabbatini	$2,861,750	24	1
13	Joe Durant	$2,811,139	28	1
14	Chad Campbell	$2,811,066	25	1
15	Stewart Cink	$2,755,910	26	0
16	Davis Love III	$2,747,207	23	1
17	Rod Pampling	$2,664,674	24	1
18	Carl Pettersson	$2,647,983	28	1
19	Retief Goosen	$2,617,453	18	0
20	Brett Quigley	$2,617,420	33	0
21	Lucas Glover	$2,587,983	31	0
22	Dean Wilson	$2,509,859	34	1
23	Arron Oberholser	$2,467,771	23	1
24	Zach Johnson	$2,452,252	27	0
25	Tom Pernice, Jr.	$2,396,548	33	0
26	Stephen Ames	$2,395,155	21	1
27	K.J. Choi	$2,376,549	26	1
28	Ernie Els	$2,326,220	18	0
29	J.J. Henry	$2,301,480	28	1
30	Ben Curtis	$2,256,327	26	2
31	Jose Maria Olazabal	$2,120,423	18	0
32	Tim Clark	$1,974,933	22	0
33	Mike Weir	$1,883,725	24	0
34	Steve Stricker	$1,811,812	17	0
35	Vaughn Taylor	$1,783,946	26	0
36	Troy Matteson	$1,778,597	32	1
37	Tim Herron	$1,776,143	27	1
38	Camilo Villegas	$1,742,112	29	0
39	Jerry Kelly	$1,737,800	31	0
40	Scott Verplank	$1,729,319	25	0
41	Nathan Green	$1,700,802	30	0
42	Tom Lehman	$1,692,083	20	0
43	Jason Bohn	$1,676,892	29	0
44	Frank Lickliter	$1,655,679	29	0
45	John Senden	$1,650,674	28	1
46	Shaun Micheel	$1,632,842	29	0
47	Justin Rose	$1,629,288	28	0
48	Fred Funk	$1,579,839	29	0
49	Sergio Garcia	$1,560,734	17	0
50	Richard S. Johnson	$1,555,376	29	0
51	Ian Poulter	$1,553,906	15	0
52	Charles Howell III	$1,553,104	30	0
53	Chris DiMarco	$1,537,925	26	0
54	Daniel Chopra	$1,530,454	33	0
55	Aaron Baddeley	$1,516,513	25	1
56	Robert Allenby	$1,503,581	22	0
57	John Rollins	$1,498,829	28	1
58	Ben Crane	$1,489,093	26	0
59	J.B. Holmes	$1,487,603	26	1
60	Jeff Maggert	$1,430,375	26	1
61	Steve Flesch	$1,417,617	33	0
62	Sean O'Hair	$1,411,388	30	0
63	Jonathan Byrd	$1,408,339	20	0
64	Bo Van Pelt	$1,389,928	28	0
65	Billy Mayfair	$1,367,999	29	0
66	Chris Couch	$1,356,732	27	1
67	Bob Estes	$1,340,244	25	0
68	Padraig Harrington	$1,339,676	15	0
69	Greg Owen	$1,316,684	24	0
70	Bart Bryant	$1,316,132	26	0
71	Jesper Parnevik	$1,308,309	24	0
72	Corey Pavin	$1,308,084	23	1
73	Eric Axley	$1,274,581	29	1
74	Jeff Sluman	$1,252,024	29	0
75	Nick Watney	$1,243,816	29	0
76	Ted Purdy	$1,216,429	33	0
77	Heath Slocum	$1,180,681	30	0
78	Woody Austin	$1,179,321	31	0
79	Shigeki Maruyama	$1,154,115	30	0
80	Steve Lowery	$1,124,949	31	0
81	Ryan Moore	$1,122,118	22	0
82	Charley Hoffman	$1,115,193	29	0
83	Hunter Mahan	$1,107,457	29	0
84	Ryan Palmer	$1,092,853	30	0
85	Mathew Goggin	$1,076,141	26	0
86	Joe Ogilvie	$1,073,112	29	0
87	Billy Andrade	$1,057,927	24	0
88	Brian Gay	$1,037,601	31	0
89	D.J. Trahan	$1,035,242	33	1
90	Bubba Watson	$1,019,263	27	0
91	Charles Warren	$1,018,840	27	0
92	Ryuji Imada	$1,018,139	31	0
93	Craig Barlow	$1,006,538	22	0
94	Nick O'Hern	$995,236	15	0
95	Daisuke Maruyama	$956,925	25	0
96	David Howell	$912,437	14	0
97	Paul Goydos	$890,392	24	0
98	Harrison Frazar	$889,022	29	0
99	Bill Haas	$887,024	30	0
100	Will Mackenzie	$879,966	29	1
101	Kent Jones	$860,688	32	0
102	Briny Baird	$844,549	25	0
103	Peter Lonard	$837,017	22	0
104	Kenny Perry	$818,698	22	0
105	Joey Sindelar	$802,507	29	0
106	Brandt Jobe	$802,435	28	0
107	Jeff Gove	$793,477	29	0
108	Fredrik Jacobson	$788,764	18	0
109	Justin Leonard	$781,756	26	0
110	Fred Couples	$780,361	17	0
111	Kirk Triplett	$766,594	18	1
112	Dudley Hart	$762,736	29	0
113	Brian Davis	$762,282	28	0
114	Olin Browne	$754,063	30	0
115	Kevin Sutherland	$751,626	29	0
116	Stephen Leaney	$746,747	27	0
117	Pat Perez	$719,507	19	0
118	Jason Gore	$717,003	29	0
119	David Branshaw	$706,346	29	0
120	Mark Calcavecchia	$705,316	27	0
121	Paul Azinger	$702,089	30	0
122	J.P. Hayes	$701,433	19	0
123	Shane Bertsch	$697,060	34	0
124	Mathias Gronberg	$674,003	30	0
125	Darren Clarke	$660,898	10	0
126	Rich Beem	$658,224	27	0
127	Bubba Dickerson	$650,315	32	0
128	Brian Bateman	$645,152	26	0
129	John Cook	$644,505	20	0
130	Lee Westwood	$630,566	14	0
131	Duffy Waldorf	$625,514	28	0
132	Tim Petrovic	$601,928	30	0
133	Brent Geiberger	$590,479	30	0
134	Omar Uresti	$583,704	22	0
135	Jonathan Kaye	$578,714	32	0
136	Jeffrey Overton	$577,131	28	0
137	Jerry Smith	$568,213	29	0
138	Bernhard Langer	$561,512	24	0
139	Jeff Brehaut	$558,595	33	0
140	Arjun Atwal	$550,537	33	0
141	Bob May	$548,631	21	0
142	Marco Dawson	$545,076	27	0
143	Brad Faxon	$543,681	26	0
144	Robert Garrigus	$537,594	28	0
145	Alex Cejka	$525,484	30	0
146	Lee Janzen	$524,198	28	0
147	Jose Coceres	$522,592	13	0
148	Kris Cox	$517,836	28	0
149	Tag Ridings	$498,242	33	0
150	Chris Riley	$495,314	27	0
151	Robert Gamez	$493,640	30	0
152	Henrik Bjornstad	$490,963	31	0
153	Michael Allen	$470,945	25	0
154	Carlos Franco	$454,385	29	0
155	Robert Damron	$451,300	31	0
156	Mark Wilson	$444,317	24	0
157	Skip Kendall	$439,934	22	0
158	J.L. Lewis	$438,669	17	0
159	John Huston	$431,024	27	0
160	David McKenzie	$425,229	28	0
161	Wes Short	$422,506	33	0
162	D.A. Points	$405,984	28	0
163	Todd Fischer	$395,819	35	0
164	Doug Barron	$388,226	28	0
165	Patrick Sheehan	$386,718	34	0
166	Danny Ellis	$382,501	23	0
167	Scott Gutschewski	$379,488	19	0
168	Ian Leggatt	$377,904	29	0
169	Graeme McDowell	$357,902	15	0
170	Tommy Armour III	$352,446	25	0
171	Paul Stankowski	$319,597	22	0
172	David Duval	$318,276	24	0
173	Steve Jones	$308,360	27	0
174	Ron Whittaker	$300,033	28	0
175	Bob Tway	$299,725	25	0
176	Cameron Beckman	$288,427	16	0
177	Craig Parry	$283,282	15	0
178	Jay Delsing	$276,447	14	0
179	Greg Kraft	$273,735	26	0
180	Nicholas Thompson	$264,717	32	0
181	Steve Elkington	$255,196	17	0
182	B.J. Staten	$253,089	18	0
183	Mark Hensby	$251,883	16	0
184	Gabriel Hjertstedt	$251,235	16	0
185	Tjaart van der Walt	$234,918	21	0
186	John Riegger	$230,765	20	0
187	James Driscoll	$219,904	29	0
188	Larry Mize	$217,971	18	0
189	Nick Price	$208,938	16	0
190	Mark Brooks	$207,958	36	0
191	Vance Veazey	$207,077	20	0
192	Mark O'Meara	$203,668	18	0
193	John Daly	$192,134	21	0
194	Matt Hansen	$187,253	25	0
195	Chris Smith	$183,411	21	0
196	Scott McCarron	$175,727	15	0
197	Dicky Pride	$174,674	9	0
198	Todd Hamilton	$165,072	27	0
199	Jay Haas	$163,399	7	0
200	Thomas Levet	$163,110	19	0
201	Darron Stiles	$157,558	15	0
202	Jimmy Walker	$153,950	21	0
203	Greg Chalmers	$151,266	28	0
204	Jason Schultz	$147,424	28	0
205	Kevin Na	$146,099	11	0
206	Rocco Mediate	$145,820	18	0
207	Glen Day	$134,580	12	0
208	Loren Roberts	$134,571	4	0
209	Mike Sposa	$132,131	25	0
210	Bill Glasson	$127,932	17	0
211	Dan Forsman	$117,126	15	0
212	Roger Tambellini	$116,685	25	0
213	Notah Begay III	$116,034	12	0
214	Matt Gogel	$108,230	14	0
215	Tom Byrum	$101,094	11	0
216	Michael Connell	$97,771	22	0
217	Grant Waite	$96,950	8	0
218	Brian Henninger	$96,453	12	0
219	Alex Aragon	$94,504	26	0
220	Ryan Hietala	$87,772	23	0
221	Jay Williamson	$86,150	18	0
222	John Engler, Jr.	$72,694	27	0
223	Scott Gump	$72,248	10	0
224	Hidemichi Tanaka	$69,435	31	0
225	Brendan Jones	$68,760	9	0
226	Len Mattiace	$66,540	22	0
227	Jon Mills	$65,493	27	0
228	Garrett Willis	$60,541	10	0
229	David Frost	$56,960	7	0
230	Phil Tataurangi	$55,792	20	0
231	Neal Lancaster	$54,680	19	0
232	Andrew Magee	$52,711	19	0
233	Donnie Hammond	$52,693	11	0
234	Bob Burns	$49,170	9	0
235	Peter Jacobsen	$46,256	4	0
236	Michael Bradley	$41,790	6	0
237	Gary Hallberg	$35,693	4	0
238	Gavin Coles	$34,674	5	0
239	Blaine McCallister	$32,190	10	0
240	Ben Crenshaw	$32,060	2	0
241	Matt Kuchar	$30,297	8	0
242	Willie Wood	$27,774	11	0
243	Jim McGovern	$26,070	8	0
244	Hank Kuehne	$24,677	9	0
245	Tom Watson	$21,578	2	0
246	Boyd Summerhays	$20,794	13	0
247	Spike McRoy	$18,225	9	0
248	James H. McLean	$16,760	4	0
249	David Edwards	$16,364	3	0
250	Craig Stadler	$16,258	4	0
251	David Peoples	$13,988	4	0
252	Guy Boros	$13,750	5	0
253	Joey Snyder III	$13,432	6	0
254	Craig Perks	$11,880	18	0
255	Joel Edwards	$11,760	3	0
256	Steven Bowditch	$11,160	22	0
257	David Gossett	$7,480	7	0
258	Mike Hulbert	$6,540	6	0
259	Jim Gallagher, Jr.	$6,390	4	0
259	Wayne Levi	$6,390	1	0
259	Michael Clark II	$6,390	4	0
262	Chip Beck	$6,180	1	0
263	David Berganio, Jr.	$6,060	2	0