PBA World Series of Bowling Kicks off with Doubles Championship
By Tenpin Bowling Australia
The PBA Tour continues this week with the 2022 PBA Mark Roth/Marshall Holman Doubles Championship set to kick-off the 2022 Guaranteed Rate PBA World Series of Bowling XIII from Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.
The PBA World Series of Bowling (WSOB) is an annual multi-tournament event that will see tournaments take place for the next thirteen days.
Five PBA Tour titles will be decided –
- PBA Mark Roth/Marshall Holman PBA Doubles Championship
- PBA Cheetah Championship
- PBA Scorpion Championship
- PBA Shark Championship
- PBA World Championship
USA representatives Andrew Anderson and Kris Prather will be on hand to defend their 2021 title in the Mark Roth/Marshall Holman PBA Doubles Championship that begins tomorrow.
As is the case in previous runnings of the Doubles Championship, Belmonte will pair up with Bill O’Neill after winning the event together in 2018. Sam Cooley will be pairing up with Colombian Andres Gomez.
Bowlers will complete two rounds of qualifying of six games before the top 16 teams will advance to two rounds of Baker match play. Following match play, the top 5 teams will advance to the TV show stepladder final.
For the animal pattern championships, ten games of qualifying on each of the three patterns – Cheetah, Scorpion and Shark – will determine the 16 finalists for each event as well as the 30 players who advance to the PBA World Championship cashers round.
After winning his first PBA title in 2021 at the WSOB, Sam Cooley will enter this year’s Cheetah Championship as defending champion.
We have included the entire World Series of Bowling schedule in AEDT timeframes. Please ensure this is correct closer to the running of each tournament as events may move around for various operational reasons.
As always, Flobowling will be streaming the action for international subscribers. Keep up with all the latest on pba.com and flobowling.com
We wish all the Australians the best of luck and high scoring at all events during the 2022 PBA World Series of Bowling.
Schedule (AEDT)
PBA Mark Roth/Marshall Holman Doubles Championship
Saturday, March 5
- Roth/Holman Doubles Qualifying Round 1: 4 am – 8 am AEDT
(6 games, each team member, Marshall Holman 38)
Reoil
- Roth/Holman Doubles Qualifying Round 2: 10 am – 2 pm AEDT
(6 games, each team member, Mark Roth 42)
(Top 16 teams advance to Baker match play)
Sunday, March 6
- Roth/Holman Baker Doubles Match Play Round 1: 4 am – 8 am AEDT
(8 Baker games, Mark Roth 42 left lane, Marshall Holman 38 right lane)
Re-oil
- Roth/Holman Baker Doubles Match Play Round 2: 10 am – 2pm AEDT
(8 Baker games, Mark Roth 42 left lane, Marshall Holman 38 right lane)
Top 5 teams advance to the Roth/Holman stepladder
Monday, March 7
- Roth/Holman Doubles Stepladder: 4am – 6 am AEDT
Tuesday, March 8
- Cheetah Qualifying Round 1 – five games – 5 am AEDT
- Cheetah Qualifying Round 2 – five games – 11am AEDT
Wednesday, March 9
- Scorpion Qualifying Round 1 – five games – 5 am AEDT
- Scorpion Qualifying Round 2 – five games – 11am AEDT
Thursday, March 10
- Shark Qualifying Round 1 – five games – 5am AEDT
- Shark Qualifying Round 2 – five games – 11am AEDT
Top 16 advance to Best of 5 , Single Elimination Match Play on March 17. All Qualifying games carry over to the PBA World Championship. Top 30 players advance to the PBA World Championship Cashers Rounds based on cumulative qualifying pin-fall of the PBA Cheetah, Scorpion and Shark Championships
Friday, March 11
- World Championship Cashers Qualifying Round – six games, top 24 advance – 5 am AEDT
- World Championship Eliminator Round of 21 – six games, top 16 advance – 11 am AEDT
Saturday, March 12
- World Championship Eliminator Round of 16 – six games, top 8 advance – 5am AEDT
- World Championship Eliminator Round of 8 – six games, top 5 advance to stepladder finals on March 14
Monday, March 14
- PBA World Championship Stepladder Finals – 5 am AEDT
Tuesday, March 15
- Cheetah Round of 16 (best of five) – 3 am AEDT
- Cheetah Round of 8 (best of five) – 6 am AEDT
- Cheetah Championship Round – 12 pm AEDT
Wednesday, March 16
- Scorpion Round of 16 (best of five) – 3 am AEDT
- Scorpion Round of 8 (best of five) – 6 am AEDT
- Scorpion Championship Round – 12 pm AEDT
Thursday, March 17
- Shark Round of 16 (best of five) – 2 am AEDT
- Shark Round of 8 (best of five) – 5 am AEDT
- Shark Championship Round – 12 pm AEDT
Monday, March 21
- WSOB PBA Collegiate Invitational – 6.30 am AEDT
