PROFILE
Athlete, Golf
$38M
2024 The World's Highest-Paid Golfers Earnings
as of 6/12/24
Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images
From the Editor
- Mickelson won the PGA Championship in 2021, becoming the oldest major winner in golf history at 50 and giving him six major titles in all. In 2023, at 52, he posted a surprise runner-up finish at the Masters.
- He went on a hiatus from competition after stirring up controversy with the February 2022 publication of his comments that he was willing to ignore alleged human rights violations in Saudi Arabia as he looked to join a forthcoming golf league.
- Sponsors including Workday and KPMG dropped him, but the loss in endorsem*nts was offset by $6 million he won from the PGA Tour's Player Impact Program and the August 2021 sale of six golf courses.
- He began playing on the LIV Golf tour in 2022, serving as captain of the Hy Flyers GC team.
- His PGA prize money total (over $96 million) leaves him behind only Tiger Woods in tour history. But his biggest paydays have been off the course, with more than $800 million across his career.
Forbes Lists
#7
The World's Highest-Paid Athletes (2023)Dropped off in 2024
Personal Stats
- Age
- 54
- Source of Wealth
- Golf
- Salary/Winnings
- $36 M
- Endorsem*nts
- $2 M
- Residence
- Rancho Santa Fe, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Agent
- Steve Loy
- Agency
- SportFive
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Arizona State University
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