2021 Player of the Year: Kyle Troup
On the strength of winning two Guaranteed Rate PBA Tour titles and setting the all-time single-season earnings record, Kyle Troup was named the 2021 Chris Schenkel PBA Player of the Year.
In 2021, Troup won the season-opening PBA Players Championship for his first major title, banking a PBA record-tying $250,000 first prize for the win. Troup also won the PBA Playoffs for his eighth career title, tying the total his father, Guppy, amassed on the PBA Tour.
Troup competed in 16 events and led all players in competition points (19,922.5) and earnings ($496,900), breaking the previous PBA record of $419,700 set by Walter Ray Williams Jr. during the 2002-2003 season.
Previous Winners
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 2020 | Jason Belmonte |
| 2019 | Jason Belmonte |
| 2018 | Andrew Anderson |
| 2017 | Jason Belmonte |
| 2016 | EJ Tackett |
| 2015 | Jason Belmonte |
| 2014 | Jason Belmonte |
| 2013 | Jason Belmonte |
| 2012 | Sean Rash |
| 2011 | Mika Koivuniemi |
| 2010 | Walter Ray Williams Jr. |
| 2009 | Wes Malott |
| 2008 | Chris Barnes |
| 2007 | Doug Kent |
| 2006 | Tommy Jones |
| 2005 | Patrick Allen |
| 2004 | Mika Koivuniemi |
| 2003 | Walter Ray Williams Jr. |
| 2002 | * Parker Bohn III |
| 2000 | Norm Duke |
| 1999 | Parker Bohn III |
| 1998 | Walter Ray Williams Jr. |
| 1997 | Walter Ray Williams Jr. |
| 1996 | Walter Ray Williams Jr. |
| 1995 | Mike Aulby |
| 1994 | Norm Duke |
| 1993 | Walter Ray Williams Jr. |
| 1992 | David Ferraro |
| 1991 | David Ozio |
| 1990 | Amleto Monacelli |
| 1989 | Amleto Monacelli |
| 1988 | Brian Voss |
| 1987 | Marshall Holman |
| 1986 | Walter Ray Williams Jr. |
| 1985 | Mike Aulby |
| 1984 | Mark Roth |
| 1983 | Earl Anthony |
| 1982 | Earl Anthony |
| 1981 | Earl Anthony |
| 1980 | Wayne Webb |
| 1979 | Mark Roth |
| 1978 | Mark Roth |
| 1977 | Mark Roth |
| 1976 | Earl Anthony |
| 1975 | Earl Anthony |
| 1974 | Earl Anthony |
| 1973 | Don McCune |
| 1972 | Don Johnson |
| 1971 | Don Johnson |
| 1970 | Nelson Burton Jr. |
| 1969 | Billy Hardwick |
| 1968 | Jim Stefanich |
| 1967 | Dave Davis |
| 1966 | Wayne Zahn |
| 1965 | Dick Weber |
| 1964 | Bob Strampe |
| 1963 | Billy Hardwick |