Tore Torgersen

Tore Torgersen, born in 1968 in Stavanger, Norway, and living in Sweden, was one of the world's leading ten-pin bowlers. He started bowling in 1980, has bowled in the Weber Cup three times and won two of those events, and is a member of the teams BK Skrufscha of Sweden and Trondheim BK of Norway. He has said the highlight of his career was becoming world champion in the United Arab Emirates, and he also won the Bowling World Cup in Hermosillo, Mexico, in 1994. In 2002 he became the first double champion of the World Tenpin Masters, and in 2006 he became a three time champion of that event. He was earlier a member of the Professional Bowlers Association but now runs a pro shop and rarely plays outside Scandinavia unless there is a major championship. At 50 he won the 2019 Suncoast PBA Senior U.S. Open, a PBA50 Tour major, beating top qualifier Mika Koivuniemi of Finland in an all-Scandinavian final, though as a non-member he was not credited with a PBA50 title.