It was revealed that Spain's Yon Lam, who plays at LIV Golf, sponsored by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund (PIF), earned close to 300 billion won in income over the past year.

In the ranking of professional golf players' earnings around the world for the past year published by the American economic magazine Forbes on the 13th, Ram ranked first overall with $218 million (about 299.3 billion won).

Last month, among all athletes, he ranked second after soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal, $260 million), who plays for Al-Nasr (Saudi Arabia).

Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland, $83 million), who ranked second among golfers, was less than half of Rahm.

The reason why Ram rose to first place is because he left the PGA Tour early this year and moved to LIV Golf, sponsored by Saudi PIF.

The exact amount was not disclosed, but it is known that Lam received $450 million (about 618 billion won) as a contract deposit alone. Second place was Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland), who earned $83 million. McIlroy recorded $45 million in non-golf income, but his total income was less than half of Rahm's. The 3rd most profitable golf player is Tiger Woods (USA, $67 million), the ‘Emperor of Golf’. Although Woods was unable to participate in many competitions due to injury, he earned $55 million in extracurricular income alone. America's Scotty Scheffler ($61 million), the world's No. 1 player who became the first PGA Tour player to surpass $20 million in single-season prize money, was ranked 4th. Scheffler has five wins this season, including the Masters, a major tournament. Most of the remaining rankings were occupied by LIV players. Starting with 5th place Cameron Smith (Australia, $47 million), 6th place Bryson DeChambeau ($44 million), 7th place Brooks Koepka ($43 million), 9th place Phil Mickelson ($38 million), and 10th place Dustin Johnson. (37 million dollars, more than US) followed. Six of the ‘Top 10’ belong to LIV Golf, proving the power of so-called oil money. 토토