2011 Johannesburg, South Africa
30th November - 7th December 2011 - 47th Bowling World Cup
Tommy Jones leads the field: Thomas Gross of Austria makes the cut.
The USA’s Tommy Jones leads the field after the qualifying 20 games in the 47th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup with 4903, a 245 average.
He takes over from our previous leader, Jason Belmonte of Australia, who commented;”I did not have a good day today, but that really makes me even more motivated to come out and bowl well tomorrow.” Jason is on 4832, a 241 average.
The field has now cut to the top 24 who will play a further eight games before the cut to the top eight.
The lucky player to make it in 24th place was Thomas Gross of Austria who finished 8th in St Petersburg in 2007. Thomas was just four pins ahead of Tomas Cibinskas of Lithuania who is the unlucky player to miss out.
Thomas said: “I am just relieved to have made it to the next stage of the tournament. I’m a long way off 8th place but you never know and I shall certainly be trying hard tomorrow.”
45 men averaged over 200 and the overall average itself was over 200 at 203.
The women are now going onto the lanes to play their final block of five games.
Tommy Jones from USA.