January 24, 2021 6:18 pm
Thirteen-time Professional Bowlers Association Tour champion Bill O Neill is no stranger to big pay days, and he had hoped another one was in store as he prepared to head to Bowlero Jupiter to bowl the PBA Players Championship East Region finals in Florida. I was supposed to fly out at 7:30 this morning, O Neill told Bowlers Journal Sunday afternoon. I woke up at 4 o clock, and just decided that there is no way I can get on a plane without taking a [COVID] test. I went and got a rapid test, and it came back positive.
The news forces O Neill, who won the $100,000 top prize in the 2020 PBA Playoffs, to quarantine at home for what he expects to be about two weeks, and dashes his hopes of ultimately having a shot at the $250,000 prize going to the winner of the PBA Players Championship finals on Feb. 21.