2018 FloBowling PBA Fall Swing

BREAKING: Sudden Back Injury Forces Weber Out Of Fall Swing

BREAKING: Sudden Back Injury Forces Weber Out Of Fall Swing

PBA Hall of Famer Pete Weber is the latest big name to withdraw from the FloBowling PBA Fall Swing after he suffered a back injury Saturday morning.

Oct 13, 2018 by Lucas Wiseman
BREAKING: Sudden Back Injury Forces Weber Out Of Fall Swing

PBA Hall of Famer Pete Weber is the latest big name to withdraw from the FloBowling PBA Fall Swing after he suffered a back injury Saturday morning.

Weber, 56, tells FloBowling he was preparing to hit the road for the Tulsa, Oklahoma, area when he injured his back loading his car. Fellow PBA Hall of Famer Norm Duke also withdrew Thursday with an elbow injury. The event begins Monday live on FloBowling.

“I was out this morning doing my packing,” said Weber, a 37-time PBA champion. “I was lifting my stuff into the car like my bowling bag, and I guess I lifted it the wrong way. My back just pulled, and I’m just in a lot of pain right now.”

Weber has been struggling with pain in his hips recently and has thrown his back out in the past but the timing could not be worse for one of the game’s greats.

“This is my life,” Weber said. “If I’m not bowling, I’m not making money and I need to be out there bowling.”

With visits to his chiropractor already scheduled for Monday, Wednesday and Friday next week, Weber is hopeful he will be ready to go for the season-ending U.S. Open in Wichita, Kansas, starting Oct. 26.

“I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to bowl,” Weber said. “My chiropractor gets me going within four or five days usually, so we will see. The U.S. Open is still another 10 days away so that’s a good thing.”

The U.S. Open is always a special event for Weber as he has won it five times, the first coming in 1988 and the most recent in the 2011-12 season.