Friday, March 4, 2011

2009 GEICO Plastic Ball Championship Finals

As the PBA Tour bowls the PBA Mark Roth Plastic Ball Championship at the Thruway Lanes in Cheektowaga, N.Y. this week, let's take a look back at the televised finals of the first tournament to restrict bowlers to balls with polyester coverstocks since the advent of urethane, reactive resin, and other modern coverstocks. Let us go back two years to the 2009 GEICO Plastic Ball Championship at the Brunswick Zone Wheat Ridge just outside Denver, CO. Interestingly, none of the TV finalists that day even made the top 16 of match play in this year's tournament.










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