How Kelly Kulick became the FIRST woman to win a PBA title | PBA Bowling Rewind

truly a big moment of pba history

Props to Barnes for not making it a gender thing. It was just the 2 best bowlers of that tournament going for the win.

The whole title match makes me emotional every time I watch it. What an amazing moment, not just for bowling history, but for all sports.

After being well down in match play she bowled brilliantly down the stretch to make TV. She could have rested on that and still made history as the first woman bowler to make a major telecast but no, superb bowling showed it was no fluke. She beat two major winners fair and square, fantastic day for bowling.

Chris is a genuine class act.

Great title match. Even though I'm a fan of Barnes I was rooting for Kelly to win

I was just thinking about this match. Cool that you put this together!

Not contrived. Not exploited. No brow-beating or rubbing salt in the wounds. Just good bowling and the best bowler won out (bad breaks come with the sport for men and women alike, and Barnes was a class-act dealing with his with humility), the way sports was meant to be played. Doubtful we'll see those kinds of organic victories ever again in today's hyper-politicized society but I'm happy to have witnessed it while I was alive! Thanks for sharing that memory so tastefully.

how often do women enter men’s PBA tournaments?

Why are they talking about a gender thing? In bowling the athlete is only playing against themselves, it's one of the few sports where it doesn't matter what gender you are.

I miss when the crowd was this loud, now it's like golf when pros bowl

Because she was the BEST BOWLER on those planks that day. Race or sex had nothing to do with anything.

Spoiler alert - She dropped more pins than her opponents.

Cause Bowling is based on ability and skill and a little bit of luck.Not strength,size or speed..She was just the better bowler that day

Amazing. Why hasn’t this been talked about more?

Back when Chris Barnes was blowing wins every week😂😂he was dominant until the cameras turned on

So every year the TOC includes the Womens bowler Tour also??? I didn't know this.

Had she not 7-10ed and it carried. She could’ve shot 300

She won because it was pre ordained she would win for tv.

That's awesome! .. holy crap she bowled well .. wow! .. fantastic!

Nice!!

While it was fantastic that she won, and really deserved to for her bowling that week, I will always consider this win with an *. She earned a spot in the tournament by means that no other male could have - by winning a women's tournament. By bypassing the requirements the rest of the field had to do, she had an advantage. Her track record on the PBA was spotty at best, and likely never could have earned a spot without the gift entry.

Bowling is the only professional sport where being a man or woman doesn’t have any advantage. That’s why you’ll never see any men throwing on a wig and going to the women’s tour.

It’s Important to remember that this isn’t just a title this is a MAJOR title. Also the Tournament of Champions. Which makes this the most prestigious and stacked event of quality bowlers on the planet. That makes this win that much more impressive

When Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs, he was hamstrung by unfair rules....King received a very favorable playing condition, which was in turn unfair for Riggs. It's no different than letting drag men compete against real women....an unfair advantage, again, is at work. In this case I think she was given a favorable condition and Barnes either choked or gave the match away....happens in boxing all the time....and I probably would have used anyone else but Barnes....saw him in 89-90 with e. Anthony , l. Wagner and one other and he stunk the place up.....just saying. And it couldn't have been the Burger King Open?!? It had to be a major?!? Come on, man.

How did she even qualify for the TOC without winning a PBA title?

It would be more impressive if she beat ej

Her ball speed was the key

You should do a video of Liz Johnson she didn't just win the event she rolled more strikes than anyone else that day!

Something I find very impressive about Kulick's sucess on PBA, is that I can't imagine how her game really matches up well against the men.

Against other women, she can move inside most of the field and slow hook it. At least, that's what usually see her do.

Against the men, her rev rate must force her more outside, and then she's rolling ball with less speed, over area the men have broken down. On modern conditions, with how fast lanes break down, I don't see how that can work to advantage. It takes flawless shot execution.

In the videos' I've made about one hand no thumb bowling, I've tried to explain how slow hooking the ball from deep inside won't work well in the modern game. More ball speed doesn't just mean more power,. but prevents the ball from being overly sensitive to small changes in topography from lane to lane or just how the lanes have broken down.

isnt Kulick Barnes ball rep now ?

Bowling is one of those sports that a woman SHOULD be able to compete against a male because their physical make-ups are not pitted against one another. It's all about how they perform on the oil pattern.

Does this mean bowling is not a sport? JK 😜

How could you not become emotional watching this? Amazing!

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I'm confused about how this could be her first win because I always believed to enter the Tournament of Champions you had to already had to have a PBA win?

Barnes is an all time choker. Kulick is a woke liberal POS

It's very simple, she gave herself an opportunity, and ran with it. ANYBODY can win one game!! I won a scratch sweeper years ago, running up the ladder from 5th, beating 4 of the best bowlers in our area including a PBA tour champion. Which shows what I'm talking about, I did it 4 times in one day!!

My favorite PBA moment of all time.

Had the opportunity to attend one of her clinics a few months ago. She was funny and made it even more enjoyable. She even encouraged me to try a PBA50 event which i might do this year.

Seeing a woman win a major title like that is beyond remarkable words can't even begin to express.

The yelling, emotion, and animation during the match are unprofessional in the face of her opponent.

When will we have the first man to win a WPBA tournament? Oh, that''s right. Men aren't allowed to enter. How fair.

I just trained with Kelly Kulick