Philippine Bowling Congress

The Philippine Bowling Congress or PBC was the governing body for the sport of tenpin bowling in the Philippines until it was replaced by the Philippine Bowling Federation "PBF" as the new appointed member of the international bowling federation World Bowling, Asian Bowling Federation and the Philippine Olympic Committee.

Contents

• Governance
• Athletes and their Achievements
• 1988 Summer Olympic Games
• WTBA World Tenpin Bowling Championship
• World Youth Bowling Championships
• SouthEast Asian Games
• References

The original Philippine Bowling Congress (PBC) Inc. 1975 registration has been revoked by the Securities Exchanged Commission (SEC) when it allowed its 25-year corporate term to expire without complying with the requirements provided by law for the extension of its corporate term of existence. In some countries, a company can exist for as long as it can engage in business. But in the Philippines, the term is as stated in company's articles of incorporation. A new organization bearing the same name as Philippine Bowling Congress (PBCI) Inc. was incorporated and registered with SEC in January 2009.

The PBCI organizes and sanctions only handicap tournaments for the past seven years such as the SM Cup and the National Bowling Tour "NBT" as well as other local bowling association member tournaments that run throughout the year. NBT has organized a very successful handicap tournament with member bowling associations from all over the Philippines - Metro City, Cavite, Batangas, Ilolilo, Cebu, Bacolod, Pangasinan and Davao. The handicap system of play however, has displaced high average bowlers such as the national team members who can only score a maximum 300 perfect game by rolling 12 consecutive strikes against a handicap bowler who may score a perfect game score and in some case over a perfect game score without actually bowling a perfect game (A perfect game is achieved by bowling 12 strikes in a row in a single game: one strike in each of the first nine frames, and three more in the tenth frame. Because a strike counts as ten pins plus any pinfall in the next two balls, 30 points are possible in a given frame).

Since its concentration on handicap tournaments, PBCI has failed to present any long term training program for its youth or national team development, these were instead left to member associations. With no exposure to World Tenpin Bowling Association "WTBA" standard format in any national tournament, success in international tournaments started to diminish. Lane condition has also not been to international standards as PBCI was unable to check these on their sanctioned tournaments.

In early 2016, after the resignation of the President and Vice President of PBCI, the Philippine Olympic Committee established a caretaker body that will temporarily handle the affairs of Philippine bowling. The POC appointed secretary general Steve Hontiveros as the president of the body. Mr. Hontiveros was a past president of the international governing body of bowling Fédération Internationale des Quilleurs now World Bowling from 2003-2007.

On March 2016, the POC appointed Paeng Nepomuceno as the head coach of the Philippine national bowling team which will now compete under PBF. PBF was incorporated to save the national bowling team and its grassroots program. PBF is made up of pillars of Philippine bowling, Senator Vicente "Tito" Sotto III himself a world cupper and champion bowler, former World Bowling president and also past PBC president Stephen Hontiveros, three world champions - 2 International Hall of Famer Paeng Nepomuceno and Bong Coo with Biboy Rivera, Asian champion Rene Reyes, original PBC incorporator Cas King, Phil. Senior Bowling president Steve Robles, and premier bowling benefactor Alex Lim. in PBF, athletes, coaches, proprietors, seniors and the youth are well represented.

With Paeng, the only Asian Gold level coach of USBC as head coach, supported by World Champion Biboy Rivera, SEAG Masters Champion Jojo Canare, longtime coach Johnson Cheng and Rey Reyes, PBF boast of a team of 100% Filipino coaches who now conducts regular seminars and quality training.

Since PBF's inception, the 2016 RP Bowling Pool was formed composed of 20 bowlers, mixed with veterans and youth bowlers. Namely:

(Mens) Enzo Hernandez, Kenneth Chua, Raoul Miranda, Jason Tubid, Kevin Cu, Nicco Olaivar, Jay-Ar Tan, Ivan Malig, Merwin Tan, JP Macatula, and Marky Del Carmen.

(Women's) Liza Del Rosario, Liza Clutario, Krizziah Tabora, Lara Posadas, Alexis Sy, Mades Arles, Dyan Coronacion, Bea Hernandez, and Rica Macatula.

For the first time in a long time, the current national pool will compete in Asian Bowling Federation member tournaments such as the Hong Kong Open and the Indonesian Open as preparation for the Asian Championships in Hong Kong later this year.

In May, 2016, PBF coaches Paeng, Biboy Rivera and Jojo Canare were invited to the second World Bowling Coach Conference held at the International Training & Research Center in Arlington, Texas where bowling coaches from around the world participated to synchronize and advance the sport worldwide.

Under the new set-up, PBCI may continue with NBT with its handicap tournaments, while PBF will be in charge of governance, national pool and sports development and tournaments using the World Tenpin Bowling format and to support WTBA's quest for inclusion in the Olympic Games along with the other member federations, as well as the proprietors and bowling manufacturers worldwide. Filipino bowlers may be a member of both organizations, since it has different focus and mindset about the sport.