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The PBA Women's Series was a mini-tour for female professional bowlers. It was started in 2007 as a way to bring women's bowling back to television after the Professional Women's Bowling Association (PWBA) disbanded in 2003. Sponsored by the United States Bowling Congress (USBC) and its website bowl.com, it ran concurrently with several stops on the Professional Bowlers Association's men's tour. After the PWBA folded, female bowlers have had very few national venues in which to bowl, other than the USBC Queens event. A few female bowlers, including Carolyn Dorin-Ballard, Liz Johnson and Kelly Kulick, began competing on the "men's" PBA Tour with limited success. The U.S. Women's Open was resurrected by the USBC in 2007, and it also spawned the creation of the women's series. The trial series featured four events in the early weeks of the 2007-08 PBA season. The 2007 winners were: * Carolyn Dorin-Ballard - ''Motor City Classic'' * Shannon Pluhowsky - ''Etonic Championship'' * Joy Esterson - ''Lake County Indiana Classic'' * Diandra Asbaty - ''Great Lakes Classic'' The series was expanded to eight events in each of the 2008-09 and 2009-10 seasons, but was not continued into the 2010-11 season. ==2008-09 Women's Series== The PBA Women's Series continued in the 2008-09 season with seven events. The 2008-09 format was similar to that used in 2007-08, with two televised finalists advancing from a field of sixteen qualifiers in five of the events. One event featured a qualifying round of 32, with the top two advancing. The final televised event was a mixed doubles tournament, where 16 Women's Series bowlers were paired with 16 male PBA bowlers following separate qualifying rounds for each. The top five doubles teams competed in a "Baker style" stepladder final (male and female bowlers alternate frames during each game). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「PBA Women's Series」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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