A striking woman.

Kelly Kulick is trading in a job at her father's auto-body shop, where she is the tone woman surrounded by men, for life on the Professional Bowlers Association Tour--where she will also be the lone woman surrounded by men. Kulick, a 29-year-old from Union, N.J., has become the first woman to qualify for the P.B.A. Tour. At the five-day qualifying event in June, she finished sixth out of 140 bowlers and rolled a perfect 300 game. "I do pretty well, against the men, maybe because working at the shop has made me tough," says Kulick, who excelled on the Professional Women's Bowling Association Tour until, it folded in 2003. Some men object to a woman joining the P.B.A. Tour because it has traditionally been all-male. But Tommy Jones, 27, winner of eight P.B.A. titles, is fine with having a woman on the Tour. He thinks Kulick deserves a chance to play against the men. Meanwhile, Kulick has already set her sights even higher: She wants to become the first woman to win a P.B.A. title.