If you want to know why the PWBA Tour is about to wrap up a second successful season since USBC and BPAA resurrected it last year, you need only look to the format and schedule.
While the old PWBA Tour had perhaps two to three dozen full-time competitors when it ended its run in 2003, the new PWBA has at least twice as many who compete regularly.
And the key difference is that the new PWBA&rsquo;s format and schedule of weekend tournaments enables players to have lives that include...

Accommodating bosses and co-workers, flexible schedules, vacation time, and even governmental support enable them to keep a schedule that typically features travel on Thursdays and Sundays and competition on Fridays and Saturdays for regular PWBA Tour events.  

Format, schedule enable players to fit the PWBA Tour into their 'real' lives