Bob Glass is a bamboozled bowler.

Glass entered the August portion of the PBA Senior Tour with hopes of earning his third Senior Bowler of the Year title. Now the Lawrence resident, who owns a doctorate in economics, says he is sending out resumes.

“I’ll be looking for a job,” Glass said, “because for the next three years I won’t have a chance to make any money.”

Glass’ woes began on July 30 when a three-year contract between the PBA and Brunswick went into effect. Brunswick now supplies the lane oil for the PBA’s national, regional and senior tournaments.

That new lane oil has Glass well past the exasperation state. He finally threw his hands up in disgust and bypassed this week’s Lake County Open in Hammond, Ind., the last stop on the Senior Tour.

“Since they started using that oil, I’ve bowled in six tournaments and cashed only two checks,” he said. “It was a waste of money, so I came home.”

All bowlers have to learn to adjust to lane oil, and at the age of 56, Glass has been making those subtle changes for years. Now, however, he has hit a brick wall.

“I’m dead lost,” he said. “My ball does not react at all. It kind of hydroplanes. My ball will squirt right, then hook left the next time. It does all kinds of things.”

Glass said he had tried different balls, different approaches and different releases. Nothing works.

“Now I’m just dead meat,” he said. “Certain guys are doing very well with the new oil, but I’m not the only guy who went home. Several regular tour guys had no clue, either. It’s going to have a dramatic effect.”

The PBA also thinned its lane oil in 2002, but Glass was able to adjust to that development.

“This is the thinnest oil I’ve ever seen,” he said. “It pours like water, and it foams. Nobody’s seen anything like it.”

Glass went into the August portion of the PBA Senior Tour as the leading money winner with $27,250, mainly because he won two of the six spring tournaments — the Epicenter Classic in Klamath Falls, Ore., and the Chillicothe (Ohio) Open.

Curiously, he still tops the Senior Tour money list with $28,600, but the $1,350 he has won in August doesn’t leave much left over after expenses.

Glass, who was named Senior Bowler of the Year in 2000 and 2001, didn’t rule out rejoining the Senior Tour in 2005, but the new oil has made him pessimistic.

“If I’m going to keep bowling on the Tour,” he said, “I’ll have to figure out what to do with it.”

During the break in the PBA Senior Tour, Glass rolled on the PBA Senior Midwest Regional circuit, where he was the fourth-leading money leader at $5,100. But the oil has been changed on that tour, too.

After Glass struggled at last week’s Jackson, Mich., Open, he decided to try to bounce back at a Midwest Regional stop in Fort Wayne, Ind. He wishes now he had come directly home instead.

“At Fort Wayne, I wasn’t even close,” he said.