How much did Rory McIlroy earn on the 2024 PGA Tour season? Winnings explored

Rory McIlroy once again had a solid season on the PGA Tour. He fell short of breaking his Major drought, but he did still have one of the better seasons. He is currently ranked third in the world, more than two points ahead of fourth place, and virtually assured of finishing the season ranked that way.

McIlroy took home $10,893,790 in total winnings from all his events this year. That's good for fifth among all golfers, coming in behind Wyndham Clark, Hideki Matsuyama, Xander Schauffele and Scottie Scheffler.

With so much money being poured into the Tour now, it's not hard to have a financially successful year. McIlroy won two tournaments, which is good but far from the best year a golfer had. Despite that, he did well financially.

He made more than Ludvig Aberg, Collin Morikawa, Keegan Bradley, Patrick Cantlay, and many others in what was perhaps a disappointing results year but an encouraging one financially.

McIlroy's greatest heartbreak, perhaps ever, came in the 2024 US Open, where he lost the tournament to Bryson DeChambeau after bogeying two of the final three holes. Despite that, he was paid well for the tournament and overall this season.

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Rory McIlroy, other golfers may have predicted PGA Tour changes

The PGA Tour is mulling changes for 2026, reportedly looking at shrinking the field size for all tournaments and limiting the number of available membership cards every season. This is something Rory McIlroy and Wyndham Clark, among others, have talked about before.

Rory McIlroy may have predicted changes to the Tour (Getty)

Per Golf Monthly, McIlroy said in March:

"I'm all for making it more cutthroat, more competitive. Probably won't be very popular for saying this, but I'm all for less players and less Tour cards, and the best of the best."

More cutthroat and more competitive seems to be the angle the Tour is going for by restricting available space for members. Clark echoed that sentiment, saying he's "probably with" Rory McIlroy on that.

He said:

"I think it would be amazing if our Tour was a hundred guys. I kind of said this a few times, a hundred guys and we have 20 guys that get relegated every time, every year, doesn't matter who you are. It would be exciting. Because you come down to the end of the year, people are looking who is going to win the FedEx Cup, and then you're looking at who is not going to be here next year."

Clark said he wasn't sure what the number should really be, but the ideal situation is "where the best players are playing on TV more often and against each other." That seems to be exactly what the PGA Tour has in mind.