Dominic Simon Barrett is one of England's leading ten-pin bowlers. He competes in world events and the PBA Tour, on which he has won eight titles. He has been the ranking winner on the European Bowling Tour in three seasons. In 2013, he won the prestigious PBA World Championship, and he won the U.S. Open in 2018. He is nicknamed "The Dominator".
Perfect Games
To date, Barrett has bowled 65 perfect 300 games in professional competition, including 18 on the PBA Tour.
Achievements
Barrett has 13 European Bowling Tour titles to his name as of the end of the 2019 season, plus eight PBA titles through the 2019 season.
While unable to win a PBA title, Barrett was Ranking Winner on the EBT for the 2012 season.
2013
Barrett won the with Team Europe teammates Mika Koivuniemi, Martin Larsen and Stuart Williams. He captured the 2013 PBA World Championship for his second PBA Tour title and first PBA major. He then won the 2013 Qatar Open in Doha, Qatar, which qualified as his third PBA title in addition to a World Bowling Tour title. On the EBT, Barrett was Ranking Winner for the third time in his career in 2013.
2014
Barrett successfully defended his 2013 Qatar Open championship by winning the event again on 27 November 2014. He defeated Stuart Williams 395–388 over the two-game final in an all-England title match. This was his fourth PBA title.
2015
Barrett finished runner-up at the 2015 Bowlmor AMF U.S. Open, defeating three opponents in the stepladder final before losing to Ryan Ciminelli in the final match, 236–223. In December, 2015, Barrett was the #1 seed for the PBA World Bowling Tour Men's Finals, held in Reno, NV, and defeated Mike Fagan in the final match. The three finalists for this non-title event were chosen and seeded based on a rolling points list of PBA International-World Bowling Tour tournaments held over the previous two years. Barrett made a career-high nine championship round appearances during the.
2016
Despite not winning a PBA Tour event in 2016, Barrett still had PBA earnings of almost $117,000, thanks to a third-place finish in the PBA World Championship and a second-place finish in DHC PBA Japan Invitational.
2017
Barrett topped a 345-player field at the Brunswick Euro Challenge on 26 March 2017, defeating Thailand's Jojoe Yannaphon in the final match to win the €12,500 first prize and his fifth PBA title. As one of the top eight PBA Tour money leaders from the start of the 2015 season through the 2017 USBC Masters, Barrett was invited to participate in the inaugural in May, 2017. He placed seventh in the event.
2018
On January 28, 2018, Barrett won his sixth PBA title at the in Tokyo, topping American Kyle Troup in the final match. On October 31, Barrett won his seventh PBA title and second PBA major at the U.S. Open, defeating top seed Jakob Butturff in the final match by a single pin, 207–206. Barrett was announced as a finalist for the 2018 PBA Player of the Year award, but the award was given to Andrew Anderson.
2019
Barrett qualified as the #14 seed for the inaugural PBA Tour Playoffs in 2019. He made it to the Round of 8 before being defeated by #6 seed Sean Rash. Barrett won his eighth PBA Tour title at the PBA-WBT Kuwait Open on November 8, 2019. Per tournament rules, Barrett had to beat the #1 qualifier, Iceland's Arnar Jonsson, twice to earn the title, which he did by scores of 289–235 and 278–277. Barrett also won the non-title World Bowling Tour Men's Finals during this same stop.
PBA career statistics
Statistics are through the last complete PBA season.
Season
Events
Cashes
Match Play
CRA+
PBA Titles
Average
Earnings
2010-11
6
2
1
0
0
217.20
4,080
2011-12
12
9
3
3
1
219.63
34,255
2012-13
26
21
7
2
2
222.70
155,302
2014
19
17
5
2
1
222.47
132,454
2015
21
15
12
9
0
222.62
94,602
2016
24
16
9
3
0
222.80
116,890
2017
21
16
10
2
1
222.39
84,300
2018
15
12
7
3
2
218.36
108,970
2019
26
18
10
4
1
217.32
119,268
+CRA = Championship Round Appearances
Personal
Dominic's wife Cassie gave birth to the couple's first child, a son named Colby Henry Barrett, on August 18, 2018.
