Should PBA Bowlers Earn Longer Exemptions?
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) It doesn’t seem like much–winning a standard PBA Tour title is worth one year of exempt status on Tour. Winning a major title is worth two years (three years for the U.S. Open). There are other ways to earn exemptions, but aside from winning a major title, there is no way to get an exemption of longer than one year. Is that enough? Should a bowler be rewarded beyond the current system? In major team sports, top athletes can be rewarded with multi-year contracts that pay them gobs and gobs of guaranteed money over a period of time. This is not the case in bowling, although sponsorship deals are similar. However, sponsorship deals for bowlers do not come close to the money pro baseball players make. As far as actually playing the sport professionally, bowlers
