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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 USBC Masters is a championship ten-pin bowling event conducted by the United States Bowling Congress. The Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) began recognizing it as a title event in 1998, and it was designated one of the four majors in 2000. A PBA rule change in 2008 retroactively awarded a PBA title (and a major) to any Masters winners ...
Carter holds the USBC record for the highest sanctioned league average, when he averaged 261.74 in 2000-2001. This record still stands today. [2] Carter was using Ebonite Vortex bowling balls for that league. Carter has also bowled 112 sanctioned 300 games. In PBA events, he has recorded 24 perfect games through the 2009–10 season.
He also has 31 USBC 300 games for a total of 75 perfect games. Wiseman was an exempt player for the 2010-11 PBA season. He bowled in only six events of the 2009-10 season, but was granted a hardship exemption deferment due to him having to care for his ailing mother.
Delmas Perry "Del" Ballard Jr. (born July 1, 1963) is a professional ten-pin bowler and member of the Professional Bowlers Association. He was a 2009 inductee into the PBA Hall of Fame, and a 2011 inductee into the USBC Hall of Fame. [4] Ballard is the husband of top female bowler Carolyn Dorin-Ballard with whom he has one daughter.
Tom Hess (born December 13, 1969) is a right-handed American professional bowler from Urbandale, Iowa, [1] and is a member of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA). He now bowls out of Granger, Iowa. [2] Hess is a member of the PBA Hall of Fame in the Veterans/Senior category.
He is a member of the USBC and PBA Halls of Fame, [36] [37] a member of the World Horseshoe Pitching Hall of Fame, [4] and was a two-time past president of the Professional Bowlers Association. [ 4 ] In the 2008–09 season, the PBA's 50th, the PBA commissioned a panel of bowling experts to recognize the "50 Greatest Players of the Last 50 Years."
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]