PWBA Bowling Tour: 2024 season

While some locations have changed, the 2024 Professional Women's Bowling Association (PWBA) Tour season matched the 2023 season with 12 title events scheduled in eight cities.[1] These include eight standard singles title events, three major title events, and one mixed doubles event. Final rounds of the season's three majors (USBC Queens, U.S. Women's Open and PWBA Tour Championship) are broadcast nationally on CBS Sports Network. All other events are broadcast on BowlTV, the USBC’s YouTube channel.

PWBA Bowling Tour: 2024 season
LeagueProfessional Women's Bowlers Association
SportTen-pin bowling
DurationMay 2 – August 13, 2024
PWBA Tour seasons
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Two of the Tour stops featured three events each. The PWBA Classic Series – Nashville had two open events, with a third event that started with only the top 24 in qualifying from the previous two events.[2] The PWBA Tour Championship Week also began with two standard, open events. The third event, the PWBA Tour Championship major, had a 24-player starting field composed of all the season’s title winners, plus the top season points-earners among non-winners.[3]

The 2024 season also saw the first-ever mixed trios event, held July 31-August 2 in Jonesboro, Arkansas. The event featured trio teams pairing PBA, PBA50 and PWBA players.[4]

Tournament summary

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Below is a list of events for the 2024 PWBA Tour season.[1] Major tournaments are in bold. Career PWBA titles for winners are in parentheses. All winnings are shown in US dollars ($).

Event Airdate City Preliminary rounds Final round Winner Notes
PWBA GoBowling! Twin Cities Open May 4 BowlTV Eagan, MN May 3–4 Live Shannon Pluhowsky, USA (3)[5] Open event. Top prize $20,000.
PWBA Bowlers Journal Rockford Open May 11 BowlTV Rockford, IL May 10–11 (PTQ: May 8) Live Sin Li Jane, Malaysia (2)[6] Open event. Top prize $20,000.
USBC Queens May 21 CBS Sports Green Bay, WI May 15–20 Live Jillian Martin, USA (a)[7] Open event. PWBA major. Top prize $60,000.
PWBA Classic Series – Greater Nashville Classic May 30 BowlTV Smyrna, TN May 29–30 Live Sin Li Jane, Malaysia (3)[8] Open event. Top prize $10,000.
PWBA Classic Series – BowlTV Classic Jun 1 BowlTV Smyrna, TN May 31–Jun 1 Live Cherie Tan Singapore (5)[9] Open event. Top prize $10,000.
PWBA Classic Series – Music City Classic Jun 3 BowlTV Smyrna, TN Jun 2–3 Live Shannon Pluhowsky, USA (4)[10] Top 24 from Greater Nashville Classic and BowlTV Classic qualifying. Top prize $12,000.
PWBA Southern Indiana Open Jun 8 BowlTV Clarksville, IN Jun 7–8 Live Lauren Russo, USA (1)[11] Open event. Top prize $20,000.
U.S. Women's Open Jun 18 CBS Sports Indianapolis, IN Jun 11–17 Live Sin Li Jane, Malaysia (4)[12] Open event. PWBA major. Top prize $60,000.
PBA-PWBA Striking Against Breast Cancer Mixed Doubles Jul 28 BowlTV Houston, TX Jul 25–27 Live Danielle McEwan, USA (9) & Anthony Simonsen, USA[13] Open PBA and PWBA title event. Top prize $25,000 (team).
PBA/PBA50/PWBA Jonesboro Trios Aug 2 BowlTV
Jonesboro, AR Jul 31–Aug 1 Live Breanna Clemmer, USA (2)
François Lavoie, Canada (PBA)
Tom Hess, USA (PBA50)[14]
Open event. Top prize $30,000 (team). Bowlers will bowl two five-game qualifying rounds within their respective tours, cutting to the top 16 players for match play. Qualifying pinfall will be dropped entering round-robin match play. Seeding entering match play will determine the PBA/PBA50/PWBA trios teams. All three top seeds will be paired together, as will the No. 2 seeds and so on. The top five teams will advance to a Baker format stepladder final.
PWBA Greater Detroit Open Aug 8 BowlTV Allen Park, MI Aug 7–8 Live New Hui Fen, Singapore (2)[15] Open event. Top prize $10,000.
PWBA Pepsi Open Aug 10 BowlTV Allen Park, MI Aug 9–10 Live Jillian Martin, USA (a)[16] Open event. Top prize $10,000.
PWBA Tour Championship Aug 13 CBS Sports Allen Park, MI Aug 11–12 Live Sin Li Jane, Malaysia (5)[17] 24-player starting field includes all 2024 titlists (PWBA members only) plus highest points earners among non-winners. PWBA major. Top prize $50,000.

(a) Competed as an amateur. No PWBA title awarded and does not qualify for PWBA Tour Championship.

Season awards

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2024 player awards[18]

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  • PWBA Player of the Year: Sin Li Jane
  • PWBA Rookie of the Year: Crystal Elliott

2024 points leaders[19]

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1. Sin Li Jane (109,425)
2. Cherie Tan (90,850)
3. Shannon Pluhowsky (89,362.5)

2024 average leaders (minimum 7 events)

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1. Cherie Tan (218.27)
2. Shannon Pluhowsky (217.83)
3. Jordan Richard (215.59)

2024 cashes

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T1. Cherie Tan (11)
T1. New Hui Fen (11)
T1. Dasha Kovalova (11)
T1. Crystal Elliott (11)

2024 earnings

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1. Sin Li Jane ($154,570)
2. Jordan Richard ($61,755)
3. Shannon Pluhowsky ($58,478)

References

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  1. ^ a b "2024 National Schedule". pwba.com. Retrieved November 30, 2023.
  2. ^ "PWBA Classic Series - Nashville". pwba.com. Retrieved November 30, 2023.
  3. ^ "PWBA Tour Championship Week". pwba.com. Retrieved November 30, 2023.
  4. ^ "PBA/PBA50/PWBA JONESBORO TRIOS - PBA TOUR DIVISION". pba.com. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  5. ^ Grubaugh, Donovan (May 5, 2024). "PLUHOWSKY WINS 2024 PWBA GOBOWLING! TWIN CITIES OPEN". pwba.com. Retrieved May 7, 2024.
  6. ^ Grubaugh, Donovan (May 12, 2024). "Malaysia's Sin wins second career title at the PWBA Bowlers Journal Rockford Open". pwba.com. Retrieved May 13, 2024.
  7. ^ Grubaugh, Donovan (May 21, 2024). "Martin wins 2024 USBC Queens, becomes the youngest to win the event". pwba.com. Retrieved May 22, 2024.
  8. ^ Grubaugh, Donovan (May 31, 2024). "Sin Li Jane wins PWBA Greater Nashville Classic for second PWBA title of season". pwba.com. Retrieved June 3, 2024.
  9. ^ Grubaugh, Donovan (June 2, 2024). "Cherie Tan wins PWBA BowlTV Classic for fifth career title". pwba.com. Retrieved June 3, 2024.
  10. ^ Grubaugh, Donovan (June 4, 2024). "Pluhowsky takes home Music City Classic title to conclude week in Smyrna". pwba.com. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  11. ^ Grubaugh, Donovan (June 9, 2024). "Russo wins 2024 PWBA Southern Indiana Open for first career title". pwba.com. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  12. ^ Grubaugh, Donovan (June 18, 2024). "Sin Li Jane wins 2024 U.S. Women's Open for first career major title". pwba.com. Retrieved June 19, 2024.
  13. ^ Hughes, Nolan (July 28, 2024). "ANTHONY SIMONSEN AND DANIELLE MCEWAN REPEAT IN HOUSTON". pwba.com. Retrieved July 29, 2024.
  14. ^ Hughes, Nolan (August 3, 2024). "Lavoie, Hess, Clemmer Win Inaugural Jonesboro Trios Title". pba.com. Retrieved August 5, 2024.
  15. ^ Grubaugh, Donovan (August 9, 2024). "New Hui Fen wins 2024 PWBA Greater Detroit Open for second career title". pwba.com. Retrieved August 13, 2024.
  16. ^ Grubaugh, Donovan (August 11, 2024). "Martin wins PWBA Pepsi Open for third career PWBA win". pwba.com. Retrieved August 13, 2024.
  17. ^ Grubaugh, Donovan (August 14, 2024). "Sin Li Jane ends breakout season with Tour Championship title". pwba.com. Retrieved August 15, 2024.
  18. ^ "2024 PWBA AWARD WINNERS". pwba.com. Retrieved 21 August 2024.
  19. ^ "2024 PWBA TOUR STATISTICS". pwba.com. Retrieved 21 August 2024.
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