Up Front
TWO FOR THE MONEY
These days, the stepladder position
from which Jason Belmonte enters a tele- vised bowling final doesn’t really matter. Leading the pack or chasing the leader, the 2012-2013 Professional Bowlers Asso- ciation Player of the Year just keeps win- ning. And, in doing so, Belmonte seems to be widening the gap between himself and the rest of the field.
Belmonte opened the year by storm-
ing to the Barbasol PBA Tournament of Champions title, virtually lapping the field in qualifying and “making the show” by an astonishing 855 pins. Faced with a single match to validate his top seed, Belmonte edged Wes Malott in the
USBC Masters just three weeks apart. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
title match. Three weeks later, he need- ed help and a strike just to make the United States Bowling Congress Masters television stepladder, then dodged one landmine after another to win his second major in a month. The victories made Belmonte just
the seventh player in PBA history to win back-to-back majors. (The last was Norm Duke, who won three straight in 2008- 09.) And his successful defense of the USBC Masters crown made Belmonte the first bowler since Billy Welu (1964, ’65), and the third bowler in history, to do so. The two-handed Australian launched the year in style with a dominating per-
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Jason Belmonte had a pretty good year last month, winning the PBA Tournament of Champions and the
EVERYTHING BOWLING, ALL THE TIME
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