
Nearly 36,000 bowlers will get a share of the $5.5 million prize fund from the 2008 United States Bowling Congress Open Championships, and the first of the checks are in the mail. The tournament was the second largest held outside of the National Bowling Stadium in Reno, Nev., and brought 12,615 teams to the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, N.M., between Feb. 16 and July 6. Approximately 11,000 of those teams will get at least one prize check, with 35,888 individual bowlers earning a share of the multi-million dollar prize fund.