Out of curiosity, not wanting to HI-JACK this thread, what did people bowl for before there were big prize funds or the P.B.A.?
Why was bowling so popular that it NEEDED a sanctioning body in the first place? The A.B.C. was formed in 1895 to govern bowling and to create the playing rules so that everyone, everywhere would be playing the same game/sport. Something about bowlig made it attractive to many participants, even back then. What was it? Sure wasn't big prize funds.
I, myself, enjoy the sport and the competitive nature of it. I enjoy the personal challenge to always improve my knowledge AND my skills. Tiger Woods made a comment about golf recently. He was asked a question about playing the game and mastering it when he replied that " You never MASTER the game, that if you want to be the best, you are constantly learning everything about it you can and ALWAYS trying everything you can to improve your skills, knowledge, and abilities". That is how I feel about bowling.
If winning brings me money, great, I can use it. If it doesn't, that's fine too, because I'm not in it to get rich, I am in it because I love doing it and want to be the best bowler I possibly can. Tiger Woods probably feels the same way about golf, just got lucky and was great at a sport that pays tons of cash, but I believe he would play for nothing, if that's the way golf was. I think he loves the game, money or not.
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