For this month’s BTM Participant Profile, I had the prospect to take a seat down with Mike Wolfe. Mr. Wolfe joined the PBA Tour again in 2001 and has picked up 5 nationwide titles throughout his profession. Though he stepped again from energetic competitors just a few years in the past, he’s nonetheless a serious a part of the bowling trade in a number of methods.

Not solely has he transitioned to being a tour ball rep for the Brunswick household of manufacturers, however he additionally runs a number of profitable professional retailers and is a serious sponsor for a number of bowling tournaments in and round Louisville, Kentucky.

When was your first yr of bowling?

I joined my first bowling league after I was 5 (1981), and 20 years later, I joined the PBA Tour.

When did you determine you wished to dedicate your life to bowling?

I by no means did, truthfully. I grew up watching my dad and mom bowl a pair nights every week and I ended up turning into a superb youth bowler. I then connected with some nice newbie bowlers and traveled the world with them for about 10 years till I started my PBA profession. I loved the primary seven or eight years on tour till the season cutbacks.

I used to be lucky sufficient to get into just a few professional retailers throughout that interval, and people would take my focus away from the PBA. It simply form of labored out that means. The PBA then grew to become a shell of what we knew, so the professional retailers saved me concerned with the trade.

What would you take into account your largest PBA win?

My first title, which was the 2004 Earl Anthony Basic, stays on the prime of my checklist. Not solely did I defeat a …