Table 2. Correlations between a country’s total number of players (PL-n) and: (a) total number of professional tournaments (TRN-n) and (b) average annual prize money in tournaments (PM-avg).
Period PL-n / TRN-n PL-n / PM-avg
P1 .93** .95**
P2 .95** .93**
P3 .92** .82**
P4 .80** .77**
P5 .67** .65**
P6 .61** .57*
P7 .64** .60**
Significant Pearson’s correlation:
* p < 0.05
** p < 0.01.