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14-Year-Old Steals Spotlight At U.S. Open


haired 14-year-old from Brentwood, Tenn., became the youngest player ever to cash in a Professional Bowl- ers Association Tour event, fi nish- ing 61st


H at the 69th U.S. Open in North Brunswick, N.J., Feb. 23.


e looks like Justin Beiber, and throws like Pete Weber. Kamron Doyle, a mop-


“The biggest lesson I


learned is you have to make your spares.”


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The 5-foot-5,


105-pound eighth grader averaged 202 over 18 qualifying games to reach the casher’s round in 59th


place out


of a fi eld of 394 amateur and pro bowlers. Af- ter eight more games of qualify- ing, Doyle completed his record-setting journey with a 200.77 average on the sport’s most diffi cult lane conditions. He earned $1,340, which was placed in his USBC SMART scholarship account. Doyle, who took up bowling at


age 7, previously cashed in a PBA Southern Regional event in Can- ton, Ga., in 2010, which was a re- cord for non-national tour events. “This is my fi rst U.S. Open,”


Doyle bowled with Hall of Famer Johnny Petraglia.


Doyle said. “I heard how tough it was from my ball driller, but I didn’t believe him. I do now. You have no idea how tough it is until you do it. It’s brutal. You can’t miss by a centimeter. The heads burn up. The ball hooks at your feet. The lanes are snot-tight in back. “But the biggest lesson I learned is you have to make your spares.”


8 USBOWLER MARCH 2012


Doyle bowled his fi rst


three qualifying rounds with PBA Hall of Famer Johnny Pe- traglia, a 14-time PBA Tour cham- pion and one of only six players to complete the PBA Triple Crown. “I think [Kam-


Kamron Doyle


ron] is going to be terrifi c,” said Pe-


traglia. “I remember bowling with Pete We-


ber in a pro-am in St. Louis


when he was maybe 15, and I see the same kind of swing, the same fi ery attitude, the same attributes Pete had when he was a teenager. “His horizon is high.” Doyle, whose father is an


orthodondist, has already packed nearly $22,000 into his SMART account (which allows bowlers under the age of 18 to compete in professional events without forfeit- ing their amateur status). He’s not sure where he’ll attend college, or what his plans are for the future. “I don’t know what I want to do


yet,” Doyle admitted. “My dad’s an orthodontist, so maybe I’ll follow him. But if I’m good enough I may want to be a professional bowler.”


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