Lucrative new World Bowling Tour event in Tokyo aims to boost Olympics effort

2020 Olympics host Japan is one of the key countries in bowling’s effort to get into the Olympics, as I wrote up in this blog last month. So it should come as no surprise that a lucrative new World Bowling Tour event has been added to the WBT schedule. The new Round 1 World Open is set for July 9-12 with a top prize of about $83,000,  and competition in a bowling center and lanes built into a convention center, World Bowling announced last week. The Round 1 World Open comes in the ...