DESERT BOWLER Vol. 35, No. 10
Tournament Schedule Local and national tournament schedule on page 12
Agent Ong Open
Oct 19-22: Bowlero Kyrene, $10,000 first place guaranteed. For details on the tournament, www.agentongopen.com
TNBA Western Regional
Nov 3-5: The Orleans and Gold Coast, Las Vegas. See ad on page 10
Arizona State USBC
Oct 14-15, 21-22: State Senior Open, Let It Roll Bowl Oct 28: State Senior Masters & Queens, AMF Tempe Village
Cotton Bowl Tournaments
Oct 28: 6 Gamer Nov 4: 9-Pin No-Tap Doubles, fundraiser Nov 11: Jackpot Saturday
MPUSBC Tournaments
Nov 11: BVL, AMF Union Hills
Nov 19: Senior Masters & Queens, Location TBD Dec 9-10: Military & Guest, AMF Union Hills
DIGITAL ISSUE
October 15, 2023
Brett Wolfe Triumphs in Inaugural TAT Cliff Castle Classic With his legendary 2002 with people traveling from ABC Masters championship New Mexico, Utah, California, as an amateur now more and as far away as Oregon, than 20 years in the past, Iowa, Minnesota, and Illinois Brett Wolfe leveraged his to challenge themselves on newfound eligibility into TAT the lanes as well as enjoy the Desert Southwest events by beautiful early fall weather in securing victory in the inauthe Verde Valley. gural TAT Cliff Castle Classic The Sunday afternoon fion October 8, 2023, earning a nals started with 36 qualifiers well-deserved $5,035 for his across five divisions. Qualifiefforts. ers bowled single-game elimIn this TAT Desert Southinator matches against one to west tournament, the firstfive other bowlers within their ever independently-run TAT respective divisions, narrowregional, 141 bowlers arrived ing down the field until only at Shake, Rattle, and Bowl one bowler remained in each within the beautiful Cliff Castle Champion Brett Wolfe and TAT Desert Southwest Direc- division. Throughout the fiCasino in Camp Verde. They tor John Verbil nals, low scores continued faced a very challenging 41to be the theme of the event, foot lane pattern built specifically and spare making was at a premisurprisingly, nine of the 24 cuts for this event. Regional director um because strings of strikes were were at or below 600. TAT Desert John Verbil and his dedicated staff rare. Southwest paid out over $20,000 managed 223 entries from Friday Each division winner was guarin cash and prizes in the 2½-day through Sunday, October 6th to anteed a minimum of $1,000 and event. 8th, in this inaugural event as bowla shot at the $5,000 first prize in Qualifying commenced on Friers tried to navigate the flat and dethe Grand Final match between all day night with nearly half of the manding high-volume pattern that of the division winners. The Grand entrants hailing from central or saw exceptionally low scores. The Finals featured bowlers spanning northern Arizona. However, as average cut score across all divia wide range of experience levSaturday dawned, bowlers flocked sions was 613 with handicap, and (continued on page 3) from all corners of the state along
Strike Force Tour Tournaments
Oct 29: Bowlero Mesa
MMA Tournament
Nov 12: Turkey Trot, Rim Country Bowl (Payson) Dec 2: Super Sr. Masters/Sr Masters/Sr. Queens, AMF Chandler
TAT Desert Southwest
Nov 24-26: Mesa East Bowl
PBA & PBA50 Virtue Bowling Supply Open champions Michael Haugen, Jr and Cortez Schenck pictured with CEO and owner of Virtue Bowling Supply Craig Spencer and Bowlero Mesa manager, Jodi Bach. Article and results are on page 8
Bowlero Kyrene Tournaments
Oct 28: 9-Pin No-Tap
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Strike Force was at AMF Chandler, September 24th. with 105 total entries (79 qualifying and 26 parlays) paying out over $6,000 in main and side event prize funds. Ryan Griggs would come out on top to win his very first title and $1,000 first place prize. Congrats to Joshua Williams on 2nd place for $600 and also congrats to Myles Hamilton on 3rd place for $300! See page 13 for tournament schedule and information.