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Less travel, less expenses: 2022 PWBA Tour to feature fewer tournaments for about same total prize money

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Tuesday, December 21, 2021 3:00 pm
Less travel, less expenses: 2022 PWBA Tour to feature fewer tournaments for about same total prize money
Bryanna Coté after winning the PWBA ITRC Classic during her 2021 PWBA Player of the Year season. Photo by PWBA.
When the 2021 PWBA Tour schedule was announced back in October 2020, the big news was an expansion to 20 tournaments and $1.3 million in prize money from 14 and $900,000 in 2019, which was roughly $65,000 per tournament in both seasons, as I detailed in this story. Then in August, PWBA owners USBC and BPAA announced boosts to the prize funds for their tournaments that hiked first in the U.S. Women’s Open to $100,000 and first in the PWBA Tour Championship to $50,000, as I detailed in...