2011 Johannesburg, South Africa

Tommy Jones of the USA shot the tournament’s second perfect game this morning at the Let’s Go Bowling lanes in Johannesburg, venue for the 47th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup.

The 300 helped Tommy to the high five game set for the day – 1273 – to give him a total pinfall of 2455, but he is still not head of the leader board as Jason Belmonte of Australia remains on top with 2535.

Kimmo Lehtonen from Finland is in third on 2395 with local player Francois Louw now up in 4th place on 2370. Francois just missed out on a place in the top eight last year in Toulon, France, and is looking to make amends for that this year.

The men are now half way through the qualifying block and the cut for the top 24 looks like being around a 214 average. On the cut at the moment is Mansour Al-Hajri of Qatar while in 25th is Michael Schmidt of Canada, the defending champion.

Michael commented afterwards: “I only have myself to blame for my poor bowling today. I’m actually embarrassed about the way I played. I threw the ball well for just one game and it showed – a 269. But we are only halfway through and there is plenty of opportunity to get up into the qualifying positions. After all, I only qualified in 7th last year but went on to win the title!”

The tournament is taking place at the Let’s Go Bowling South Africa centre in Northcliff, Johannesburg. The finals will take place on Tuesday 7th December.