PBA Bowling Tour: 2009–10 season
| PBA Bowling Tour: 2009–10 Season | |
|---|---|
| League | Professional Bowlers Association |
| Sport | Ten-pin bowling |
| Duration | August 2, 2009 – April 25, 2010 |
| PBA Tour | |
| Season MVP | Walter Ray Williams, Jr. |
This is a recap of the 2009–10 season for the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) tour. It was the Tour's 51st season and consisted of 19 title events.
In a cost-cutting move, the PBA held the first half of the 2009–10 season in Allen Park, Michigan (just outside Detroit) under the name PBA World Series of Bowling. Preliminary rounds of the televised tournaments were held in August, with television tapings on Labor Day weekend (September 5–7). Qualifying for the first of the PBA's four majors, the PBA World Championship, was part of the World Series. The television finals for this event took place live in Wichita, Kansas, three months after the preliminary rounds.
With one exception, the singles events of the 2009 PBA Women's Series were all contested at the World Series.
The second half of the season followed a traditional touring format, and included a total of 14 telecasts (11 title events and 3 special non-title events). The three remaining major tournaments (PBA Block Tournament of Champions, USBC Masters and 67th U.S. Open) were all contested in the second half. The 2010 Japan Cup, contested April 22–25, was also a PBA title event. The final eight for this tournament competed live on Japanese television, but no U.S. TV broadcast was aired.
Below is a summary of the 2009–10 season. Career titles for tournament winners are shown in parenthesis. (Titles shown for women are for PBA Women's Series events only.)
During the touring schedule (January – April 2010), 32 exempt bowlers competed in a traveling singles league. All matches were taped for airing on the PBA's Xtra Frame pay-per-view web video service.
The PBA Tour Trials, which determined the eight additional exempt bowlers for the upcoming season, concluded May 31, 2009 in Allen Park, Michigan. The trials consisted of 45 games bowled over nine days on various PBA oil patterns. The eight qualifiers include:
Both Ciccone and Beasley regained exemptions they had lost by not earning enough points during the 2008–09 season. Schaub is now the second two-handed bowler (joining Jason Belmonte) to earn a PBA Tour exemption. Williams becomes the first British ten-pin bowler ever to bowl full-time on the PBA Tour.
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