2016 U.S. Women’s Open to take place in Chicago area

21 April, 2016

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The 2016 U.S. Women’s Open, a major event on the Professional Women’s Bowling Association Tour, will take place Aug. 1-7 in suburban Chicago.

The stepladder finals will be televised live on Sunday, Aug. 7, at noon Eastern on CBS Sports Network. The third major of the season, the U.S. Women’s Open is one of 13 PWBA events that will be televised on CBS Sports Network this year.

The Stardust Bowl, an 82-lane center in Addison, Illinois, will be the host center for the tournament, the final open event of the 2016 PWBA Tour season.

For this year’s event, competitors will bowl 24 qualifying games over three days before the field is cut to the top one-third. Following another eight qualifying games, the field will be reduced to the top 24 for match play. The top five competitors, based on their 56-game totals at the end of match play, will advance to the stepladder finals.

At the 2015 event, Liz Johnson (pictured) of Cheektowaga, New York, became the first bowler to successfully defend her title since 1969, when hall of famer Dorothy Fothergill accomplished the feat. It was Johnson’s fourth career U.S. Women’s Open title as she joined Kelly Kulick (2010) as the only bowlers to win the United States Bowling Congress Queens and U.S. Women’s Open in the same year.

The U.S. Women’s Open and the PWBA Tour are collaboratively funded by the Bowling Proprietors’ Association of America and United States Bowling Congress. Click here for more information about the event or visit PWBA.com for more information about the PWBA Tour.

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