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Parker Bohn III, Lynda Barnes complete huge week for Team USA with Masters gold medals at 2017 World Bowling Senior Championships

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Sunday, August 20, 2017 8:00 pm
Parker Bohn III, Lynda Barnes complete huge week for Team USA with Masters gold medals at 2017 World Bowling Senior Championships
Team USA's Lynda Barnes and Parker Bohn III with their Masters gold medals from the 2017 World Bowling Senior Championships. Photo by United States Bowling Congress.
Based on the plethora of foreign champions on the PBA Tour and PWBA Tour these days, one would expect the World Bowling Senior Championships to look much different 30 years from now. The 2017 World Senior Championships at Dream-Bowl Palace near Munich, Germany, looked a lot like the PBA and PWBA did 30 years ago: dominated by Americans. Back then, it was huge news when Mats Karlsson became the first foreigner to win a PBA Tour title in 1986 and Amleto Monacelli was emerging as a superstar,...