John Handegard

John Louis Handegard (1938 to 2025) was an American professional ten-pin bowler who spent time on both the PBA Tour and the PBA Senior Tour, now the PBA50 Tour. For over two decades he ranked as the all-time leader in PBA50 Tour titles with 14, until Walter Ray Williams Jr. passed him in 2021, and he was PBA Senior Player of the Year three times, in 1991, 1995 and 1996. At the 1995 Northwest Classic he beat future Hall of Famers Mike Aulby and Norm Duke and then Mark Williams, 278-247, in the title match, becoming at 57 years and 55 days the oldest player to win a regular PBA Tour event and breaking the 30 year old mark set by Buzz Fazio at 56. The PBA ranked that win 52nd among its 60 most memorable moments. In January 2009 he became the first inductee of the PBA Senior Hall of Fame, and he entered the USBC Hall of Fame in 2010 and the Oregon Bowling Hall of Fame in 2019. He died at age 87.