If the league is not USBC certified, then it's not under the local USBC Association jurisdiction. It doesn't matter whether or not you capitalize. That is just a fact. In case you wanted to be "totally accurate".

I'm glad you guys got that straightened out because I was getting confused.

I know some people dislike the comparisons to golf. But one here sorta makes sense.

If a bowler has no desire to ever bowl in a tournament, bowls in a house where the house banks the league and has no worries about their money, and doesn't care if their scores are officially recognized, then not sanctioning makes sense.

Here's the golf analogy.  I play golf.  I keep score during my round and play by the rules.  I try to beat the guys I am playing with and have a good time playing.  I never have any desire to enter a golf tournament or have my score officially recorded.  I don't keep track of a handicap, and I don't pay to belong to a golf association.

See where I am going here?

Now here is the question.  Do I know if maybe 5 cents or 25 cents of my green fee was sent to some local, state, or national golf association where my round was "recorded".  They have no idea what I shot, but they know I paid for a round of golf.

Riggs (Jeff Richgels) who is one of our sports best supporters out there, came up with an idea where instead of asking bowlers at the start of the year to pay an extra $20 to sanction their league, instead 15 cents or 20 cents of each game bowled throughout the year in "organized" play (leagues) was deducted and sent to USBC.  If you bowled 3 leagues, you would pay 3 times the sanctioning of a bowler who only bowled 1 league.  The small fee deducted from lineage would add up over the course of a season to equal the typical $20 sanction fee.  In a 36 week league it is around 18 1/2 cents a game.

Yes proprietors would raise fees to adjust for this by probably a quarter a game to cover the cost of fee and collecting/mailing to USBC.

This way the cost of sanctioning is behind the scenes.  And within a couple of years of implementation, I doubt no one would even worry about it any more.

But if presented to the bowler, that the sanctioning is being deducted from your lineage fees that you pay to the house already, and the houses (BPAA) requesting/requiring that all their leagues participate in this program.

I wonder if bowlers would care that less than 20 cents of their lineage is being used to pay sanction fees?

So if I bowl in one league a year and they decide not to sanction and let's say I average 190, what would be my course of action for city tournament? Would I be allowed to use a "non-sanctioned" average that will never be put in a yearbook or would I be required to bowl scratch.

Perfect Pro shop ... I would imagine if the secretary of that league gave a signed letter specifying your average it would be acceptable (no experience only my opinion).

TxBowler .. seems like a workable solution .. maybe more acceptable if it was tied to NO SECRETARY fees!