2024 PBA Tour season

The 2024 PBA Tour season, the 65th season of play for the U.S. Professional Bowlers Association's ten-pin bowling tour, began on January 9 with the pre-tournament qualifier of the PBA Players Championship. The season included 15 singles title events, two doubles title events, a mixed trios title event, and a non-title team event.
On November 1, 2023, the PBA and Fox announced that the 2024 season will have over 60 hours of live coverage on Fox and FS1 networks. Multiple standard title events move to FS1 from previous streaming-only broadcasts, and Fox terrestrial stations will have eight broadcasts, the most since Fox acquired PBA broadcast rights in 2019.

Season overview

As in 2023, the final rounds of all five major events were broadcast live on over-the-air network television. This included the finals of the PBA Players Championship on January 15, the U.S. Open on February 4, the USBC Masters on March 31, the PBA World Championship on April 21, and the PBA Tournament of Champions on April 28. All five majors paid out a $100,000 top prize. Also scheduled for the Fox network was a PBA All-Star event with Fox NASCAR at the Shriners Children's 500 in Avondale, Arizona.
From February 5 to March 3, there were four “classic series” events which each awarded a standard title. The final round of these events were broadcast on FS1. The 2024 season also saw the return of the PBA Playoffs, which was last hosted in 2022.
The PBA League Elias Cup team competition returned with a revised format, and the new moniker "PBA Elite League". While the quarterfinals, semifinals and finals broadcasts on FS1 remain in September, as in 2023, there were season-long qualifying events at the first 14 PBA Tour stops. The league was reduced to eight teams of six players, and head-to-head Baker matches throughout the season further reduced the field to six teams prior to the September 15 quarterfinals.
On July 31-August 2, the PBA hosted its first-ever mixed trios event in Jonesboro, Arkansas. The event featured trio teams pairing PBA, PBA50 and PWBA players.

Season awards

Chris Schenkel PBA Player of the Year: E. J. Tackett Harry Golden PBA Rookie of the Year: Nate Purches Steve Nagy PBA Sportsmanship Award: Richie Teece Tony Reyes PBA Community Service Award: Kyle TroupHarry Smith PBA Points Leader Award: E. J. Tackett George Young PBA High Average Award: E. J. Tackett

Tournament summary

The events currently scheduled for the 2024 PBA season are shown below. Major tournaments are in bold. Career PBA title numbers for winners are shown in parentheses. Winner's share prize money is shown in US dollars, except where indicated.
Tour points are awarded for most events. Besides the season-ending Harry Smith PBA Points Winner award, points are one consideration for Player of the Year voting and also affect eligibility and seeding for the PBA Playoffs and PBA Tour Finals.

Tier 3: PBA short format or limited field tournaments
Tier 2: PBA standard tournaments with a fully open field
Tier 1: PBA major tournaments

Event	Airdate	City	Preliminary rounds	Final round	Oil pattern	Winner	Notes
PBA Players Championship presented by Snickers	Jan 15 Fox	Wichita, KS	Jan 10–13	Live	Wayne Webb 38	Bill O'Neill, USA	Members-only event*. PBA major. $100,000 top prize.
U.S. Open presented by Go Bowling	Feb 4 Fox	Indianapolis, IN	Jan 29–Feb 2	Live	Four custom patterns	Kyle Troup, USA	Open event. PBA major. $100,000 top prize.
PBA Illinois Classic	Feb 10 FS1	Mount Prospect, IL	Feb 6–8	Live	Don Carter 39	Marshall Kent, USA	Open event. $25,000 top prize.
PBA Pete Weber Missouri Classic	Feb 18 FS1	Springfield, MO	Feb 14–16	Live	Dragon 45	Anthony Simonsen, USA	Open event. $25,000 top prize.
Just Bare PBA Indiana Classic	Feb 24 FS1	Anderson, IN	Feb 20–22	Live	Viper 37	Kyle Troup, USA	Open event. $25,000 top prize.
PBA Delaware Classic	Mar 3 FS1	Middletown, DE	Feb 28–Mar 1	Live	Billy Hardwick 44	David Krol, USA	Open event. $25,000 top prize.
PBA All-Star Weekend	Mar 15–16 FS1 Mar 17 Fox	Avondale, AZ	N/A	Mar 6–8	PBA LBC 43	Skills Competition: Team Storm Legacy Cup: Team WRW Battle of the Ages: PBA All-Stars def. PBA Legends NASCAR Invitational: Lindsay Boomershine & A. J. Allmendinger	Non-title events featuring current PBA and PWBA stars, PBA legends, rookies and NASCAR drivers. Events: PBA All-Star Skills Showdown, PBA Legacy Cup, GoBowling! PBA NASCAR Invitational. Event held as part of NASCAR Shriners Children's 500 at Phoenix Raceway. To be broadcast before the NASCAR Bristol round the next week.
USBC Masters	Mar 31 Fox	Las Vegas, NV	Mar 25–29	Live	USBC Custom	DeeRonn Booker, USA	Open event. PBA major. $100,000 top prize.
PBA WSOB XV Roth-Holman Doubles Championship	Apr 14 FS1	Allen Park, MI	Apr 4–5	Apr 6	Mark Roth 42 & Marshall Holman 38	Andrew Anderson, USA Kris Prather, USA	Open event. $30,000 top prize.
PBA WSOB XV Cheetah Championship	Apr 15 FS1	Allen Park, MI	Apr 8–9	Live	Cheetah 36	Deo Benard, USA	Open event. $20,000 top prize.
PBA WSOB XV Scorpion Championship	Apr 16 FS1	Allen Park, MI	Apr 10–11	Live	Scorpion 42	Matt Russo, USA	Open event. $20,000 top prize.
PBA WSOB XV Shark Championship	Apr 17 FS1	Allen Park, MI	Apr 12–13	Live	Shark 48	E. J. Tackett, USA	Open event. $20,000 top prize.
PBA World Championship	Apr 20 FS1 Apr 21 Fox	Allen Park, MI	Apr 8–13, 18	Live	Qualifying: Cheetah 36, Scorpion 42, Shark 48 Match play & finals: Earl Anthony 43	E. J. Tackett, USA	PBA members & qualifying collegiate players via PTQ. PBA major. 16 top qualifiers from animal pattern events advance to match play on April 18. Top four after match play automatically seeded for finals. April 20 stepladder determines fifth seed for finals. $100,000 top prize.
PBA Tournament of Champions	Apr 28 Fox	Fairlawn, OH	Apr 23–25	Live	Don Johnson 40	Marshall Kent, USA	Invitational event. PBA major. $100,000 top prize.
PBA Playoffs	Play-in stepladder: May 4 FS1 Round of 12: May 5 FS1 Quarterfinals: May 12 FS1 Semifinals & Finals: May 19 Fox	Arlington, WA & Kissimmee, FL	May 4–5, 19	Live	Dick Weber 45 & Mike Aulby 39	David Krol, USA	Starting field: top 16 in 2024 Tour points through April 28. $75,000 top prize.
PBA Tour Finals	Jun 7–seeding rounds CBS Sports Jun 8–group stepladders and finals CBS Sports	Bethlehem, PA	Jun 7	Live	Marshall Holman 38 & Johnny Petraglia 46	Anthony Simonsen, USA	Starting field: top eight points earners since start of 2023 season. $30,000 top prize.
PBA-PWBA Striking Against Breast Cancer Mixed Doubles	Jul 28 BowlTV	Houston, TX	Jul 26–28	Live	Custom Kegel pattern	Anthony Simonsen, USA & Danielle McEwan, USA	PBA and PWBA title event. Top prize $25,000.
PBA/PBA50/PWBA Jonesboro Trios	Aug 2 BowlTV	Jonesboro, AR	Jul 31–Aug 1	Live	Amleto Monacelli 40	François Lavoie, Canada Tom Hess, USA Breanna Clemmer, USA	PBA, PBA50, and PWBA title event. Open event. Top prize $30,000. Bowlers will bowl two five-game qualifying rounds within their respective tours, cutting to the top 16 players for match play. Qualifying pinfall will be dropped entering round-robin match play. Seeding entering match play will determine the PBA/PBA50/PWBA trios teams. All three top seeds will be paired together, as will the No. 2 seeds and so on. The top five teams will advance to a Stepladder Baker Format.
PBA-WBT Storm Lucky Larsen Masters	N/A	Helsingborg, Sweden	Aug 23–Aug 31	Sep 1	Not reported	Jesper Svensson, Sweden	PBA and WBT title event. Top prize 160,000 SEK.
PBA Elite League Elias Cup	Quarterfinal play-in : Sep 15 FS1 Semifinals 1 & 2: Sep 16 FS1 Elias Cup Finals: Sep 17 FS1	Portland, ME	Seeding based on Baker matches held concurrently with first 14 events of 2024 PBA season	Live	Mark Roth 42	Las Vegas High Rollers	Non-title team event. Eight-team starting field, reduced to six for Sep 15 play-in round. Top prize: $100,000 to winning team.
Go Bowling PBA Elite League Strike Derby	Oct 27 Fox	Portland, ME	N/A	Sep 17	Mark Roth 42	Jesper Svensson, Sweden	Non-title event. Eight-player field. $30,000 top prize.

*Four non-member players from Wichita State University were granted Commissioner's exemptions for the 2024 PBA Players Championship.