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.

The original Philippine Bowling Congress (PBC) Inc. 1975 registration has been revoked by the Securities Exchanged Commission (SEC) when it allowed its 25-year corporate term to expire without complying with the requirements provided by law for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.

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