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The United States Bowling Congress (USBC) is a sports membership organization dedicated to ten-pin bowling in the United States.It was formed in 2005 by a merger of the American Bowling Congress—the original codifier of all tenpin bowling standards, rules, and regulations from 1895 onwards; the Women's International Bowling Congress—founded in 1916, as the female bowlers' counterpart to ...
The Masters is open to PBA members and any USBC member that meets average requirements. It is a part of the World Bowling Tour. After the Masters in January 2004, the tournament was moved to the fall, resulting in two Masters events during calendar year 2004.
English: Chart showing numbers of bowling centers, million USBC league members, and bowling lanes in the United States since 1997 Data source: Data is copied from Wayback Machine's archives on archive.org of the USBC's bowl.com website for each individual year.
This business decline is often attributed to waning league participation: USBC membership—indicative of league participation that was the main source of revenue—declined by two-thirds in those two decades, [85] and the portion of alley revenue attributable to leagues is estimated to have dropped from 70% to 40%.
The handicap is the difference of the sum of averages between the two teams that are facing each other (sometimes then multiplied by a percentage, such as 90%), or an amount calculated from a score that is above the highest team average in the league so that each team gets a handicap amount.
Starting in October 2004, the PBA adopted an all-exempt national tour format. In this format, only 64 bowlers competed in most weekly events. Bowlers earned exemptions by winning a tournament during the previous season, winning one of the four major tournaments (thus gaining a multi-year exemption), placing among the top finishers in points, leading a region on the PBA Regional Tour (2005 ...
The Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) is the major sanctioning body for the sport of professional ten-pin bowling in the United States.Headquartered in Mechanicsville, Virginia, [1] and currently owned by Bowlero Corporation since 2019, [2] the PBA's membership consists of over 3,000 members worldwide. [3]
Both Burton and his father are members of the United States Bowling Congress (USBC) Hall of Fame. Burton Jr. is also a member of the PBA Hall of Fame, elected in 1979. His 18th and final PBA tour title came in 1984 at the AMF Angle Open held just outside his hometown of St. Louis. In that tournament, Burton set a record for a televised four ...