2017 USBC Open Championships anti-sandbagging rules explained

There is nothing more plain and simple than your basic scratch tournament: You show up, bowl the format and the guy with the most pins is the winner. And there are few things more complex than trying to run a “fair” average division or handicap tournament: Fighting sandbaggers is a never-ending and too-often losing struggle for tournament operators. The American Bowling Congress Tournament/United States Bowling Congress Open Championships had no such problems for decades as it was ...