Palermaa wins first international PBA title under WTBA alliance
JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: 3/20/2012, 4:00 AM
Osku Palermaa, center, earned $25,000 and his third career PBA title in winning the Kuwait Open. Picture by Pro Bowlers Association.
Osku Palermaa earned $25,000 and his third career PBA title in winning the Kuwait Open on Monday, and I would wager he doesn’t care what anyone thinks of it.
The event is the first international tournament to award a PBA title under a new alliance between the PBA and the World Tenpin Bowling Association.
Some posters on the PBA message board were questioning the propriety of awarding a PBA Tour title in an event that featured only about a dozen regular PBA Tour members.
That, to me, is ...