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PBA Returns To Milwaukee
For Multi-Event Summer
Swing In May
Four tournaments to be conducted in three bowling centers
MILWAUKEE, Wis.
– After a five-year absence,
the Professional Bowlers Association will return to
the Milwaukee area with a unique four-tournament,
three bowling center Summer Swing in late May,
PBA Commissioner Tom Clark announced today.
The PBA Summer Swing will include two-day
tournaments at AMF Waukesha just west of Mil-
waukee, AMF West in Milwaukee proper and AMF
Bowlero in suburban Wauwatosa. Each of the
three events will produce a five-player stepladder
final which will be televised on a tape-delayed ba-
sis, and the qualifying rounds of the three prelimi-
nary events will serve as a foundation for a fourth
championship tournament which also will be con-
ducted at Bowlero. Tournament names will be an-
nounced later.
“Milwaukee has been the home to some of the
most important events in bowling history,” Clark
said, “and we hope the PBA Summer Swing will
add to that legacy. It’s a great bowling community
with great bowling fans, and we couldn’t be happier
to be coming back to town.”
The PBA Tour’s last Milwaukee appearance was
in 2007 when qualifying and match play rounds for
the United States Bowling Congress Masters were
held at AMF Bowlero Lanes before the ESPN finals
were conducted on specially-constructed lanes in
Miller Park, the home of the Milwaukee Brewers,
for the second time. That tournament was won by
reigning PBA Player of the Year Sean Rash.
In October of 2004, the USBC and PBA made
history when the Masters finals were conducted in
Miller Park for the first time. That was the first time
a championship bowling event had ever been
staged in a major league baseball stadium. Danny
Wiseman of Baltimore won that edition of the Mas-
ters. In between those historic events, USBC
(which formerly made its home in suburban Green-
dale, Wis.) and the PBA conducted Masters finals
in U.S. Cellular Arena in downtown Milwaukee in
2005 (won by Mike Scroggins) and the Wisconsin
Exposition Center at Wisconsin State Fair Park in
2006 (won by Doug Kent).
Prior to those USBC Masters tournaments, Mil-
waukee had long been an annual stop on the PBA
Tour, beginning in 1966 when USBC Hall of Famer
Bill Lillard won his lone PBA Tour title in the Miller
High Life Open.
The entry fee package for all four tournaments
will be $600 for PBA members and $700 for non-
members. The tournament field will be limited to
192 players. Entries open March 15. PBA Touring I
and Touring II members will have first priority fol-
lowed by non-touring members. Non-members will
be confirmed on a first-come basis.
Tentatively called the Summer Classics I, II and
III, each will offer a $50,000 prize fund. Classic IV
will pay $100,000 in prize money. All four winners
will earn berths in the 2014 PBA Tournament of
Champions.
All four tournaments will be covered by PBA’s
Xtra Frame online bowling channel (for subscrip-
tion information, visit pba.com and look for the Xtra
Frame logo).
