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Looking back at annual reports since 2017 is quite interesting. Can anyone add to the 27 names listed. In all fairness some barely had time to sit down so their names may have missed appearing in an annual report. I know I have met 6 of them. Hish Fernando Sid Shekar Graham Pearson Ryan...

No I did not mean Kournikova and I certainly wouldn't categorise anyone in the way you crudely did. I was merely equating the way sponsors & broadcasters treat athletes differently (a person's sporting talent is sadly often not the main driver for sponsorship dollars or airtime). I used Ana...

I want to see the sport of bowling grow and flourish. The Prizemoney isn't worth getting out of bed for at the present time. It is actually embarrassing what these people play for. It isn't a genuine living. The girls all require other sources of income just to survive. Whether you like it or...

I just finished watching the Qubica AMF Masters Promotion tournament on Youtube. This event is a PROMOTIONAL event. It is to PROMOTE the sport of Bowling. A field primarily made up of USA PWBA players and European players from both sexes. Now I was not intending to single out 1 particular...

For a numbers person like myself I love using using statistics to build an argument but the stats below are so compelling and blatantly obvious no-one can question them. Since 2014, no player has been the No. 1 seed at majors more often than Tackett. He’s earned the coveted spot atop the...

So Tackett wins again and again giving him 21 titles. Belmonte has also increased his tally to 31 titles. Both have now won 21 titles since 2015. In the PBA World Championship Tackett was again dominant out averaging Belmonte by 6.62 pins per game. Belmonte ultimately finished 2nd but was only...

Oh well, bowling in Australia is led by the TBA. That is all that needs to be said. The sport has already had many great moments in its 60+ year history in Australia, as to what happens in the immediate future is up to the next generation of bowlers - whether good, bad or indifferent...

I am confused - all I have stated is that the format used in the Tournament of Champions was garbage. Jason Belmonte was nowhere near the best player last week and the ridiculous format gave him the opportunity to pull off the most unlikely victory in PBA history. In any other event from the...

I don’t think many people would even contemplate trying to give me a history lesson but that was incredibly amusing. The facts are that the ridiculous format used in the 2023 Tournament of Champions gave Belmonte the opportunity to win when he clearly wasn’t anywhere near the best bowler last...

Hmmmm, yes the record books will show Woods and Belmonte both have 15 major titles BUT!!!!!!!! Bowling is still predominantly a USA dominated sport. When you win a golf or tennis major there are players from all over the world. These sports are played at a very competitive professional level...

Well Jason Belmonte has just created history in becoming the first bowler to ever win the Tournament of Champions 4 times. This is a tremendous achievement. The 2023 Tournament of Champions also made use of the most ridiculous format in the PBA's 64 year history allowing him to achieve this...

The PBA Tournament of Champions has been playing out this week and it has just reached the Stepladder Finals stage after 42 games of Qualifying & Matchplay. The only problem with this made for TV farce is that the Stepladder Finals will include the top 17 bowlers. Not the traditional 5 or...

Almost everyone would argue that Jason Belmonte has been the most successful PBA player over the last 15 years since winning his first title in 2008. Belmo has now won 30 titles placing him equal 7th place on the PBA all-time titles list. He requires another 4 titles to equal the late great...

When you look at the record of Australia's bowlers on the international stage we initially appear to punch well above our weight. Well, we certainly do at a singles level and I don't believe that anyone is going to win an argument with me on that score as we are unquestionably the second most...

Hello Bert, 1. I will say it one last time. It is not my Trademark as I have very clearly stated. I DO NOT HAVE OWNERSHIP. So how could I proceed with anything? I wrote yesterday's post because I wanted to make it clear that I do not own the Trademark. You only have to look at the IP Australia...

It seems that many people in the bowling community obviously take an interest in the sport which is fantastic but I just want to clear up 1 misconception. As of 31 October 2022 the "Walter Rachuig Trophy" has been officially trademarked. The application has been listed on the official government...

Over the years a number of PBA champions visited our shores and it was always fantastic when they did. Dick Weber was probably the first when he visited Melbourne and Sydney in the 1960's. The Melbourne Cup of the late 70's and early 80's brought out super star bowlers including Dave Davis...

Congratulations to Norm for running second in the PBA 50 Hammond Senior Open in Indiana. Well at least we now know where he was!!! It explains why Norm wasn't down south for that very much hyped little 6 bowler exhibition tournament in Hobart over the weekend where each of the six competitors...

Willey, you got me thinking about Bowlers Journal and closer to home. Back in the 70's and 80's Pin Action was a fantastic magazine covering Australian bowling. I felt privileged to be able to contribute some stories. Bob Cook did an absolutely incredible job on a minimal budget to produce a...

Yes Willey that is my point. What are administrators doing to address the lack of sponsorship? Snooker obviously has it right but bowling certainly doesn't. There shouldn't be such an inequity. I agree that Golf and Bowling had similar levels of prize money in the 1950s & 60s and your reasons...

Jason Belmonte has recently won his 26 & 27th PBA titles - $100,000 & $20,000 USD or $139,330 & $27,866 AUD. Neil Robertson (born in Melbourne) has recently won his 21st & 22nd titles on the World Snooker Tour. His winnings were 250,000 and 125,000 GBP or $473,731 & 236,865 AUD. So Belmonte...

I suppose we have to start from the beginning of the PBA in 1959. Prior to that time there were only a few tournaments of significance held each year. There are only 16 men who have won at least 20 or more titles since the PBA began. Now some players keep bowling long after they have lost their...

Hi Daz, Yes it was great news that a wonderful centre could be saved. It doesn't happen very often. Bowling centres throughout our history have rarely been given a second shot at life but this was one of those very rare pieces of good news in the socialist state of Victoria where countless...

It is always sad when a bowling centre closes for the last time but it is even harder when it is one with so much history attached to it. Keon Park has always been a BOWLERS centre. For more than 40 years it has hosted many of Melbourne's strongest leagues and some of Australia's greatest...

Thanks Steve you are absolutely right, I was just reading over the recent ''News" posts on the TBA website from the last month or so and the community focus is absolutely fantastic. There is a post celebrating NAIDOC Week for our Indigenous people, another for ''Tenpin's Women in Leadership"...