Membership may return to 1 million this season, 2022 Open Championships entries projected at 9,250, ominous words for Women’s Championships in USBC Executive Director Chad Murphy’s '2021 Recap, 2022 Preview''

While the delta and omicron COVID-19 variants have prevented a quick and relatively smooth transition from pandemic to endemic, much of the U.S. by 2022 has offered a collective middle finger to SARS-CoV-2, with people returning to how they lived their lives before 2020. For that reason, the issue for USBC membership wasn’t whether it would rebound in 2021-22, but by how much. USBC Executive Director Chad Murphy provided the answer — or at least a projection — in hi...