PWBA Bowling Tour: 2019 season

The 2019 Professional Women's Bowling Association (PWBA) Tour retained a similar schedule to the 2018 season, with ten standard tournaments and four majors.

PWBA Bowling Tour: 2019 season
League	Professional Women's Bowlers Association
Sport	Ten-pin bowling
Duration	April 25 – September 18
Season MVP	Shannon O'Keefe
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Season overview

The first six standard tournaments of the 2019 season, plus the Striking Against Breast Cancer Mixed Doubles event (a crossover event with the PBA Tour), all start with an open field. The final three standard events of the year feature an “Elite Field” of 24 bowlers, based on season-to-date points, that are automatically placed into the top 32 for match play. The remaining players bowl a qualifying round for the other eight spots in match play.^[1]

The final rounds of the first six standard tournaments and the Striking Against Breast Cancer Mixed Doubles event air live on a PBA Xtra Frame Webcast at FloBowling.com. CBS Sports Network airs the final round of the three Elite Field standard tournaments and all major tournaments live.

The USBC Queens and U.S. Women's Open are open to both PWBA members and qualifying USBC members. The PWBA Players Championship major is open to PWBA members only. The season's final event and final major, the PWBA Tour Championship, is an invitational featuring a starting field of only 16 bowlers. Tournament winners from the current season gain automatic entry into the starting field, as long as they are PWBA members. The remaining spots are given to PWBA bowlers with the highest 2019 point totals among non-winners.

Season awards and statistics

Player awards

• PWBA Player of the Year: Shannon O'Keefe^[2]
• PWBA Rookie of the Year: Valerie Bercier^[3]

2019 points leaders

1. Shannon O'Keefe (148,125)^[4]
2. Danielle McEwan (117,085)
3. Dasha Kovalova (109,970)

2019 average leaders (minimum 10 tournaments)

1. Shannon O'Keefe (215.63)
2. Danielle McEwan (211.48)
3. Shannon Pluhowsky (210.90)

2019 championship round appearances

1. Shannon O'Keefe (7)
2. Danielle McEwan (5)
T3. Dasha Kovalova and Maria Jose Rodríguez (4)

Tournament summary

Below is a list of events scheduled for the 2019 PWBA Tour season.^[5] Major tournaments are in bold. Career PWBA title numbers for winners are shown in parentheses (#).

Event	Airdate	City	Preliminary rounds	Final round	Winner	Notes
Nationwide PWBA Greater Cleveland Open	Apr 27 X	Cleveland, OH	Apr 25–26	Live	Josie Barnes, USA (3)	Open event. $10,000 top prize.
PWBA Twin Cities Open	May 4 X	Eagan, MN	May 2–3	Live	Shannon O'Keefe, USA (9)	Open event. $10,000 top prize.
PWBA Lincoln Open	May 11 X	Lincoln, NE	May 9–10	Live	Jordan Richard, USA (2)	Open event. $10,000 top prize.
USBC Queens	May 21 C	Wichita, KS	May 16–20	Live	Dasha Kovalova, Ukraine (1)	Open event, PWBA major. $20,000 top prize.
PWBA Sonoma County Open	Jun 1 X	Rohnert Park, CA	May 30–31	Live	Shayna Ng, Singapore (2)	Open event. $10,000 top prize.
PWBA Tucson Open	Jun 8 X	Tucson, AZ	Jun 6–7	Live	Shannon O'Keefe, USA (10)	Open event. $10,000 top prize.
PWBA Fountain Valley Open	Jun 15 X	Fountain Valley, CA	Jun 13–14	Live	Sandra Andersson, Sweden (1)	Open event. $10,000 top prize.
U.S. Women's Open	Jun 23 C	North Las Vegas, NV	Jun 16–22	Live	Danielle McEwan, USA (5)	Open event, PWBA major. $20,000 top prize.
Storm PBA/PWBA Striking Against Breast Cancer Mixed Doubles	Jul 28 X	Houston, TX	Jul 25–27	Live	Amanda Greene–N, USA and Kyle Sherman, USA	Open PBA and PWBA title event. $20,000 top prize.
PWBA East Hartford Open	Aug 3 C	East Hartford, CT	Aug 1–2	Live	Shannon O'Keefe, USA (11)	Elite field event. $10,000 top prize.
Pepsi PWBA Louisville Open	Aug 10 C	Louisville, KY	Aug 8–9	Live	Dasha Kovalova, Ukraine (2)	Elite field event. $10,000 top prize.+
BowlerX.com PWBA Orlando Open	Aug 17 C	Orlando, FL	Aug 15–16	Live	Shannon O'Keefe, USA (12)	Elite field event. $10,000 top prize.
QubicaAMF PWBA Players Championship	Sep 8 C	Raleigh, NC	Sep 3–7	Live	Cherie Tan, Singapore (2)	Open members-only event, PWBA major. $20,000 top prize.
PWBA Tour Championship	Sept. 18 C	Henrico County, VA	Sept. 15-18	Live	Shannon O'Keefe, USA (13)	Invitational event, PWBA major. $20,000 top prize. At Richmond Raceway Old Dominion Building (former Virginia State Fairgrounds).

• C: broadcast on CBS Sports Network
• X: broadcast on the PBA's Xtra Frame Webcast service at FloBowling.com
• N: non-member at the time of victory, and thus does not qualify for the PWBA Tour Championship
• +: Dasha Kovalova won an additional $10,000 bonus for rolling a 300 game in the title match.^[6]

References

1. "2019 PWBA TOUR TO KICK OFF IN CLEVELAND, FEATURES STOPS IN ARIZONA AND NORTH CAROLINA". PWBA.com. May 17, 2018. Retrieved August 20, 2018.
2. Smith, Aaron (September 10, 2019). "O'KEEFE CAPTURES SECOND CONSECUTIVE PWBA PLAYER OF THE YEAR AWARD". bowl.com. Retrieved October 10, 2019.
3. "BERCIER WINS 2019 PWBA ROOKIE OF THE YEAR AWARD". PWBA.com. September 7, 2019. Retrieved October 10, 2019.
4. "2019 PWBA TOUR STATISTICS". PWBA.com. Retrieved October 10, 2019.
5. "2019 PWBA Tour Schedule" (PDF). USBC. Retrieved August 20, 2018.
6. "KOVALOVA ROLLS 300 GAME TO WIN 2019 PEPSI PWBA LOUISVILLE OPEN". PWBA.com. August 10, 2019. Retrieved August 16, 2019.

External links

PWBA.com, home of the Professional Women' Bowling Association