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16 new PBA lane patterns offer variety of distances, shapes and volumes

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Thursday, September 21, 2017 9:00 pm
16 new PBA lane patterns offer variety of distances, shapes and volumes
Four of the 16 new PBA lane patterns for 2018. Photo by Pro Bowlers Association.
The PBA has completed the revamping of its lane patterns with 16 that offer a wide variety of distances, shapes and volumes, with the distance numbers added to the end of each pattern name in a fan-friendly move CEO and Commissioner Tom Clark had said was coming earlier this summer. Pictures of the 16 patterns — actually four pictures with four patterns each — containing the basics of name, distance, volume and main ratio are at the bottom of this story. (As has been the case for...