Brooks Koepka Has Won More In 2018 Than Nicklaus Did In Career

The 28-year-old has had a very rich year on the PGA Tour

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The 28-year-old has had a very rich year on the PGA Tour

Brooks Koepka Has Won More In 2018 Than Nicklaus Did In Career

Brooks Koepka has had the year of his life, winning two out of the three majors he has played in, picking up a bucket-load of cash and world ranking points in the process.

Cash will be the main focus of this article, as the American has earned more in 2018 on the PGA Tour than Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer did in their careers!

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Koepka has won $6,412,792 on the PGA Tour this season, $2.16m of that coming at the US Open and $1.98m for his USPGA Championship win.

That is around $700,000 more than Jack Nicklaus won in his entire career on the PGA Tour.

The Golden Bear won 73 PGA Tour titles as well as 18 majors to pick up a grand total of $5,734,031.

Koepka has earned almost $3m more than Arnold Palmer did on the PGA Tour too.

Palmer, victorious 62 times on the PGA Tour in his career, won a total of €3.6m.

Although he does ultimately trump Brooks Koepka, as according to Forbes, Palmer earned 240 times that from appearances, endorsements, licensing and golf course design to take his career earnings to a whopping $875m.

That is third in the all-time sports list, only behind Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan.

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Palmer's earnings have been bumped up to $1.3bn due to inflation - good luck beating that Brooks!

Brooks Koepka's PGA Tour earnings are currently $200,000 short of $20m to take him to 74th in the PGA Tour's All-Time Money List.

Woods is top of that table with $113m, Mickelson is second with $88m, Vijay Singh third with $71m, Jim Furyk fourth with $68m and Dustin Johnson is in fifth with $55m.

His $6.4m earnings put him in third position in the PGA Tour's Official Money chart for the 2017-18 season - Justin Thomas is 1st with $7.9m and Dustin Johnson is 2nd with $7.3m.

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Elliott Heath
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Elliott Heath is our News Editor and has been with Golf Monthly since early 2016 after graduating with a degree in Sports Journalism. He manages the Golf Monthly news team as well as our large Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. He covered the 2022 Masters from Augusta National as well as five Open Championships on-site including the 150th at St Andrews. His first Open was in 2017 at Royal Birkdale, when he walked inside the ropes with Jordan Spieth during the Texan's memorable Claret Jug triumph. He has played 35 of our Top 100 golf courses, with his favourites being both Sunningdales, Woodhall Spa, Western Gailes, Old Head and Turnberry. He has been obsessed with the sport since the age of 8 and currently plays off of a six handicap. His golfing highlights are making albatross on the 9th hole on the Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa, shooting an under-par round, playing in the Aramco Team Series on the Ladies European Tour and making his one and only hole-in-one at the age of 15 - a long time ago now!


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Putter: Odyssey White Hot OG #5

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