Steve Neff

Steve Neff, of Homosassa Springs, Florida, is a retired professional ten-pin bowler and a member of the Professional Bowlers Association who bowled on both the PBA Tour and the Senior PBA Tour. On the main tour he collected four victories, one of them a major, with five runner-up finishes and nine more top-five appearances, and on the Senior Tour he won six titles. He was PBA Rookie of the Year in 1973, when he cashed in 21 of the 27 tournaments he bowled, and won his first Tour title in 1974. His major was the 1975 BPAA U.S. Open, where he beat Paul Cowell 279-217 in the title match, and he finished second to Gary Dickinson in the 1983 U.S. Open final and to Cowell in the 1974 ABC Masters. His most significant Senior Tour win was the 1999 Brunswick Senior National Championship, and he later won the Senior Chillicothe Open in 2002 and 2003. He also worked as color analyst for NBC's PBA Tour broadcasts.