The PBA Tour may look very different in 2024 thanks to new rules governing urethane and &ldquo;urethane-like&rdquo; balls that were announced Tuesday in&nbsp;this PBA news release.
If it does look very different, fans who consider watching urethane balls being used on the PBA Tour &ldquo;boring&rdquo; may find a more exciting PBA in 2024.
The key change is hiking the minimum hardness at manufacturing from 73D to 78D, which may make balls like the PURPLE HAMMER and Storm PITCH BLACK not nearly...

USBC has declined to do anything substantive to deal with the problem, and its abdication of its role as the national governing body of the sport eventually caused PBA to begin acting on its own in an attempt to protect the competitive integrity of the highest level of the sport, culminating in the new hardness rule.

PBA explains why it’s drastically hiking minimum hardness for urethane and ‘urethane-like’ balls in 2024