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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: bamaster on March 28, 2004, 11:46:31 PM

Title: PBA to Open Membership to Women
Post by: bamaster on March 28, 2004, 11:46:31 PM

Uh oh... time to see how many women shoe up!

Sheck it out!
http://www.pba.com/news/default.asp?ID=2466

Of course, I doubt more than a dozen women will join.  But we shall see!

Tony
http://www.allBowling.com

Title: Re: PBA to Open Membership to Women
Post by: bamaster on March 29, 2004, 03:31:46 PM

Wow, not one reply.

Yeah, I guess this is the most boring topic o' the day.

Title: Re: PBA to Open Membership to Women
Post by: Pinbuster on March 29, 2004, 03:36:13 PM

Tony - This has been kick around on the PBA forum most of this afternoon.

Title: Re: PBA to Open Membership to Women
Post by: michelle on March 29, 2004, 04:03:10 PM

Could prove interesting...I know that spots were still available in both Oklahoma City and San Antonio, not sure about regionals in other parts of the country.  I'm wondering if Jim will have any WD's from the inaugural LCT event in Port Arthur by members looking to head up to OKC (PA is a doubles event and was already impacted by something with the college bowlers that same weekend).

The timing pretty much ensures, though, that there will only be a few women (if any) at the Tour Trials since the five regional event requirement exists...

Title: Re: PBA to Open Membership to Women
Post by: mumzie on March 29, 2004, 07:08:58 PM

I've been thinking about this the majority of the afternoon...
Here's my PERSONAL decision...

I'm not going to join the PBA - at least not at this time. And there's only one reason why - the "nearby tournament rule".
If there's a pba regional on a weekend so many hours away (don't remember exactly, but a lot), and another tournament (say a woman's LCT tournament), I'd be prohibited to bowl the other tournament without permission of the tournament director - and the director (at least in this region) doesn't give permission. If I went and bowled the women's tournament instead of the regional, I'd be fined, and forfeit any moneys won.
Not worth it. At least not at this time.

Edited on 3/29/2004 8:14 PM

Title: Re: PBA to Open Membership to Women
Post by: Bjaardker on March 30, 2004, 06:35:18 AM

Mumzie,

Judging by the rules listed above, it looks like the "average" bowler is only obligated to a 50 mile radius to regionals.

And due to it being an exempt tour, I'm not sure how many women will make it into the national tour this year.

Maybe they planned to do this all along? Could that have been another possible reason for the exempt tour?

Title: Re: PBA to Open Membership to Women
Post by: brimar on March 30, 2004, 06:38:30 AM

i think this would be a great thing to watch. MTFD24 might second me on this but i watch a mixed traveling league locally here and not unusual to see the women out bowl the men namely liz johnson and a few others.