Despite not playing in any official events in 2021, Tiger Woods topped the PGA Tour's inaugural Player Impact Program, an honor that Phil Mickelson said in December he had earned.
Nevertheless, no one moves the needle quite like Tiger. In this competition, that’s what counts the most.
Rather than adding up the strokes taken over four days of a tournament, the PIP measures a Tour member’s year-long accumulation of positive public interest by using five metrics: Internet searches of his name ; unique news articles that mention his name ; social media reach and engagement ; exposure of sponsors in tournament telecasts on Saturdays and Sundays ; and a Q-score rating of the awareness of a player among the general U.S. population.
For topping the 2021 PIP list, Woods got an $8 million payout, followed by Mickelson at $6 million. The rest of the top 10 players, who split a pool of $40 million, went as follows (via
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