PGA career money earned by Sun Devils
Updated through July 20, 2022
PGA Tour Career earnings through the 2019-20 season
- Phil Mickelson: $92,107,252
- Paul Casey: $31,750,123
- Pat Perez: $26,557,345
- Jon Rahm: $22,069,889
- Billy Mayfair: $20,303,642
- Chez Reavie: $16,233,567
- Matt Jones: $12,919,263
- Dan Forsman: $8,687,983
- Jim Carter: $4,766,778
- Tom Purtzer: $4,192,268
- Bob Gilder: $3,032.108
- Grayson Murray: $2,895,018
- Howard Twitty: $2,713,551
- Joey Snyder: $1,267,815
- Jin Park: $769,840
- Alejandro Canizares: $477,403
- Chan Kim: $215,868
Phil Mickelson — $94,055,060 Entering the 2020-21 PGA Tour season
Phil Mickelson will go down as one of the all-time PGA Tour greats. He leads former Sun Devils in career earnings at just over $94 million. Mickelson turned pro in 1992 and has over 40 PGA TOUR victories and more than 50 professional wins. He remains the greatest golfer that ASU or the NCAA has ever witnessed. He won individual NCAA titles in 1989, 1990, and 1992, joining Ben Crenshaw as the second person to do that in NCAA history. Mickelson made first-team All-American all four years, winning a school record of 16 tournaments. His 2020 campaign, which included his first season on the Champions Tour, where he won the first tournament that he played, included a tie for second at the WGC – FedEx St. Jude Invitational, third at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, and T-24 at the Travelers Championship.
Paul Casey — $36,584,416
Paul Casey turned pro in 2000, and the ASU Alum was phenomenal during his ASU career in the late 1990s. He was a second-team All-American twice and a first-team All-American in his final year. He led the Sun Devils to three straight Pac-10 titles in only three seasons. He won the English Amateur in 1999 and 2000, and his 69.87 scoring average in his final season broke Phil Mickelson’s record for the best scoring average in ASU history.
Jon Rahm — $34,055,136
Jon Rahm finished second in the 2019-20 FedEx Cup rankings and then won the 2021 U.S. Open. During his college career, he won 11 collegiate tournaments, had the third-lowest NCAA season stroke average ever during his junior year, won the Ben Hogan award twice, and was a two-time First Team All-American.
Pat Perez — $28,830,160
Pat Perez has had a long career that began in 1997. Perez has three PGA victories and four total professional wins. He has also collected more than 60 top-10 finishes. Perez put together a solid 2020 campaign, with over $1 million in earnings and two top-10 finishes. While at ASU, Perez helped lead the Sun Devils to the 1996 NCAA title in Tennessee.
Billy Mayfair — $20,303,642
Billy Mayfair had an illustrious career on the PGA Tour. After turning pro in 1988, he collected five career victories and totaled over $20 million in earnings. At ASU, Mayfair was the first golfer to win both the U.S. Public Links and U.S. Amateur. He was a four-time All-American and the NCAA and Golf Coaches Association of America's Player of the Year 1987. He won the Haskins Award that same year, placed in the top 10 in 12 tournaments, and secured the U.S. Amateur Title and the Pac-Northwest and Pac-Coast Tournaments in 1987-88.
Chez Reavie — $19,160,116
Chez Reavie, a Dobson High School graduate and local product, turned pro in 2004. The ASU alum was successful from a young age. Playing in his first USGA event at the age of 19, Reavie earned a trip to the 2002 Masters with his 2001 Public Links title by beating Danny Green in the 36-hole championship match at the 7,005-yard, par-71 Pecan Valley Golf Club in San Antonio on July 14 with a two-foot par putt on the 38th hole. Reavie was an honorable mention All-American in 2001 and 2003 and a second-team All-American in 2004. He tied for fourth in his freshman year at the 2001 NCAA Individual Championship in Durham, N.C. Reavie’s performance was the second-best by a Sun Devil freshman in school history.
Matt Jones — $17,330,501
Matt Jones has had a solid professional career since 2001. Jones finished 95th in the 2020 FedEx Cup standings after collecting $996,000, including a tie for fifth at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, a T-10 finish at Greenbrier, and a T-14 finish at the Workday Charity Open. At ASU, Jones was a first-team All-American in 2001 and an honorable mention pick in 2000. Jones was a part of two ASU teams that took Pac-10 titles and played in three NCAA championships.
Dan Forsman — $8,687,983
Dan Forsman was a solid player on the PGA and Champions Tours. Forsman earned about $8.7 million in his career that began in 1982. He has posted three wins on the Champions Tour and five on the PGA Tour. While at ASU, he followed a season in which he was a first-team All-Pac-10 and third-team All-American selection in 1980, becoming the Pac-10 Co-Player of the Year in 1981. He was named to the first-team Pac-10 Conference and second-team All-American squads and earned conference medalist honors in his final season. He was inducted into ASU's Hall of Fame in 1992.
Jim Carter — $4,766,778
ASU's first NCAA champion, Jim Carter, collected nearly $4.8 million in earnings and earned one PGA Tour win. A 1995 ASU Hall of Fame inductee, Jim Carter became ASU's first NCAA men's golf champion in 1983. He also captured medalist honors at the Southwest Amateur that year and was a first-team All-American. In 1984, he earned All-America honors again and was a medalist at the Arizona Intercollegiate and the Sun Devil-Phoenix Thunderbird Invitational.
Tom Purtzer — $4,192,268
Tom Purtzer had a solid career on the PGA Tour and an even better one on the Champions Tour. Purtzer turned pro in 1973 and won five PGA tournaments, four Champions tournaments, and an international tournament. He collected $4.2 million in earnings on the PGA Tour when golfers got paid a lot less than they do now, and he earned nearly $8.1 million on the Champions Tour. Purtzer also totaled 70 top-10 finishes on the PGA Tour compared to 59 top-10 finishes on the Champions Tour. Purtzer earned his PGA membership in 1975 and won the 1971 and 1973 Arizona Collegiate. A member of Arizona State’s golf teams from 1970-73, he was inducted into the ASU Hall of Fame in 1989 and was a second-team All-American in 1973. Purtzer still lives in Scottsdale, AZ, and started Purtzer Performance Golf School & Academy in Phoenix.
Grayson Murray — $3,352,477
Grayson Murray turned pro in 2015 and won the 2017 Barbasol Championship. He had a great season in 2017 when he won the Barbasol, tied for eighth at the Sanderson Farms Championship, tied for 11th at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, and finished 66th in the FedEx Cup rankings, collecting $1.47 million. Murray transferred to ASU from Wake Forest in 2014, where he shot his season-low 71 in his first tournament as a Sun Devil. Murray left the Sun Devils to go pro after one season.
Bob Gilder — $3,032,108
Gilder turned pro in 1973 and won six PGA Tour tournaments and a whopping ten Champions Tour tournaments. Gilder collected just over $3 million on the PGA Tour but a whopping $11.5 million in earnings on the Champions Tour. He totaled 67 top-10 finishes on the PGA Tour and 67 top-10 finishes on the Champions Tour. The Western Athletic Conference champion in 1973, Gilder was selected three times to the All-WAC teams before ASU joined the Pac-10 and once to the All-America squad.
Howard Twitty — $2,713,551
Howard Twitty saw success on the PGA Tour as he won three PGA Tour tournaments, along with 53 top-10 finishes and collected $2.7 million. Twitty last appeared on the Champions Tour in 2007. At ASU, Twitty was an All-American first team in 1970 and 1972, and second team in 1971. He was a runner-up in the 1972 NCAA Championship Tournament. He was rated the number three amateur in the country in 1970. He was All-Western Athletic Conference for three years. Twitty was the Porter Cup Champion in 1970 and finished second in the Tucson Open in 1976. He was the winner of the Thailand Open in 1975. Twitty joined the Sun Devil Men’s Golf staff as a volunteer assistant in 2018, bringing more than 35 years of PGA Tour experience to the program.
Joey Snyder III -— $1,267,815
Joey Snyder, a 1996 Sun Devil NCAA title team member, turned pro in 1996 and made $1.26 million in his 18-year career with four top-10 finishes. He last appeared on tour in the 2014 Waste Management Open, and his final cut was at the Reno-Tahoe Open in 2013, where he tied for 63rd place. At ASU, Snyder was a two-time third-team All-American and won the 1996 Porter Cup.
Jin Park — $769,840
Jin Park earned $382,000 on the PGA Tour and was a key part of three Pac-10 Championships.
Alejandro Canizares — $477,403
Alejandro Canizares saw some success internationally after turning pro after a historic collegiate career with the Sun Devils. Canizares has two wins internationally, with a total collection of $477,000 in prize earnings. He has not appeared on the PGA Tour since 2012. He became the sixth freshman to win the NCAA Individual Golf Championship in June 2003 with a 1-under 298 at the Karsten Creek Course in Stillwater, Oklahoma. By the end of his Sun Devil career, Canizares had earned back-to-back Pac-10 Player of the Year honors and four All-American selections, the fourth Sun Devil to earn four All-American honors. He also earned the Arnold Palmer Award in 2003.
Chan Kim — $631,090
Chan Kim doesn't play in the United States much, as his PGA Tour career is second on his to-do list. Kim turned pro in 2010 but did not appear in a PGA tournament until the 2017 Open Championship. It was a great debut for Kim, who finished tied for 11th. That check for $175,000 is the most of Kim’s $209K career earnings. In 2020, he had a couple of decent performances -- T-41 and T-46 at the ZOZO Championship and WGC/HBCS Champions Tournament. Chan had a solid freshman season in 2008-09 before turning pro. He finished tied for 16th at the ASU Thunderbird Invitational, tied for 13th at the U.S. Intercollegiate, Tied for 21st at Pac-10 Championships, tied for third at the NCAA West Regional, and tied for 23rd at the NCAA Championships. He finished his freshman year with the fifth-lowest freshman stroke average in school history.
