WPH Press
The WPH has proudly presented the Race 4 Eight Sunday Stats since the start of the pandemic, highlighting the Race 4 Eight’s greatest champions, longest winning streaks, greatest accomplishments, tournament directors, nicknames, obscure stats, handball’s origins and history, and so much more. This Sunday we’ll focus on the number of total players entering Race 4 Eight events, the qualifiers, the percentage of competitors entering events that earn prize money compared to golf, and the success rate of qualifiers hoisting Race 4 Eight crystal.
- Of the 1,916 combined players that have entered the 63 Men’s Pro R48 events since 2011, 842 earned prize money (44%)
In comparison, 9,882 players entered the 2015 Men’s U.S. Open (golf) qualifying with 49 exempt into the actual U.S. Open for a total of 9,932 players, 75 of whom were paid (0.7%) Information retrieved from here
- In the 46 events that have featured qualifier brackets, 1,020 qualifiers entered: *The six R48 Simple Green U.S. Opens and Plummer ’17 were open tournaments, the first three WPH Player’s Championships included only the top eight, and R48LTE events are open draws
- In the 46 official R48 events that featured a qualifier bracket, eight qualifiers out of 1,020 advanced to a final (.8%), with two of the eight winning the title (Brady, ’17 NYAC, Mulkerrins ’19 Memorial). In comparison, five Monday qualifiers since 1980 have won on the PGA Tour (5 in 1,833 tournaments: 0.3%)
- Ortiz: R48 III Plummer 2013
- Nash: R48 III Houston 2014
- McCarthy: R48 III NYAC 2014, R48 VII Tucson
- Nett: NYAC R48 IV 2015
- Carroll: New Orleans R48 V 2016
- Brady (win): NYAC 6 2017
- Mulkerrins (win): Tucson Memorial R48 IX 2019
David Fink
Race 4 Eight Historian