Ricart Ford in Columbus, Ohio, will be the title sponsor of the Professional Bowlers Association’s Ricart Ford Open presented by Columbia 300, Feb. 17-19 at Sequoia Lanes in Columbus. The tournament will be the third of four PBA Tour Xtra Frame tournaments on the 2011-12 PBA Tour schedule.

The tournament will be webcast live, exclusively on pba.com’s Xtra Frame online bowling channel, from start to finish.

The newly-created Xtra Frame Tour will also include the Cheetah Open presented by Ebonite, Jan. 21-22, in Fountain Valley, Calif.; the Detroit Open presented by Track, March 11-12, in Allen Park, Mich., and the Dick Weber PBA Playoffs presented by Hammer, March 31-April 1, in Indianapolis.

PBA Tour titles and berths in the Round of 36 for the 2012 PBA Tournament of Champions will be awarded in all four events.

The PBA Ricart Ford Open will also offer a $10,000 first prize. The tournament is open to all comers with a $350 entry fee for PBA members and a $400 fee for non-members. It will pay a prize fund of $66,000 based on a field of 130, with one in three players cashing.

Kicking off the tournament weekend on Feb. 16 will be the fourth annual Don Johnson Memorial team fundraising event benefiting juvenile diabetes research and the Nationwide Children’s Hospital of Columbus which has raised over $110,000 in the three previous years.

The tournament will also feature a lineup of pro-ams on Feb. 17. Additional information regarding these special events will be released as further details become available.

Thanks to the extensive live online coverage of Xtra Frame Tour events, PBA fans will be able to witness the pressures and drama of a complete PBA Tour event from qualifying through match play, concluding with the stepladder finals.

Xtra Frame also will provide live coverage of the preliminary rounds of the Tour’s three major championships: the USBC Masters, Jan. 23-29, in Las Vegas; the U.S. Open, Feb. 20-26 in North Brunswick, N.J., and the PBA Tournament of Champions, April 8-15, in Las Vegas.

Xtra Frame is available for a $7.99 monthly or 12-month subscription rate of $64.99 which includes year-round coverage of PBA activities, including PBA Tour, Senior Tour and selected PBA Regional events. The full-year package provides subscribers with hundreds of player and industry leader interviews, new product introductions, coaching tips and human interest features, and access to Xtra Frame’s huge archive of past PBA events plus much more.

 

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2011-12 PBA Tour Schedule

 

2011-12 XTRA Frame Live PBA Tour Schedule

• Jan. 21 - PBA Xtra Frame Tour Cheetah Open presented by Ebonite (qualifying)
• Jan. 22 - PBA Xtra Frame Tour Cheetah Open presented by Ebonite (match play, finals)
• Jan. 24 - USBC Masters (qualifying)
• Jan. 25 - USBC Masters (qualifying)
• Jan. 26 - USBC Masters (cashers Round, match play)
• Jan. 27 - USBC Masters (match play)
• Feb. 17 - PBA Xtra Frame Tour Ricart Ford Open presented by Columbia 300 (qualifying)
• Feb. 18 - PBA Xtra Frame Tour Ricart Ford Open presented by Columbia 300 (match play, finals)
• Feb. 21 - 69th U.S. Open (qualifying)
• Feb. 22 - 69th U.S. Open (qualifying)
• Feb. 23 - 69th U.S. Open (qualifying)
• Feb. 24 - 69th U.S. Open (cashers round, match play)
• Feb. 25 - 69th U.S. Open (match play)
• March 9 - PBA Xtra Frame Tour Detroit Open presented by Hammer (qualifying)
• March 10 - PBA Xtra Frame Tour Detroit Open presented by Hammer (match play, finals)
• March 31 - PBA Xtra Frame Tour PBA Dick Weber Playoffs presented by Track (qualifying)
• April 1 - PBA Xtra Frame Tour Dick Weber Playoffs presented by Track (eliminator rounds, regional finals, conference finals)
• April 9 - PBA Tournament of Champions (Champions rounds)
• April 10 - PBA Tournament of Champions (Elite qualifying)
• April 11 - PBA Tournament of Champions (Elite qualifying, cashers round)
• April 12 - PBA Tournament of Champions (Round of 36)
• April 13 - PBA Tournament of Champions (match play)