PBA Xtra
TACKETT AND GOMEZ
BYGONES: Tackett (left, with South Planes Lanes proprietor, Jimbo Evans) said his TV woes never registered with him as he bowled Bill O’Neill for a PBA Tour title in Lubbock, while Gomez (right, with New Liberty Lanes proprietor, Scott Oertel) addressed recent struggles by watching video of himself and noticed something that helped him win.
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won his first PBA Tour title the following week at the Xtra Frame Lubbock Southwest Sports Open on June 28, the mind had many things to remember. Those two titles he lost to Jason Belmonte from the top-seed position at the 2014 USBC Masters and Oklahoma Open. The 145 he shot on the latter show. Things he wanted to keep forgotten as he faced another of the tour’s hottest players, Bill O’Neill, for the title at South Planes Lanes in Lubbock, Texas. “You just have to put the bad
moments in the past. You have to use the
positives from those moments, know that you did get close, and that I just haven’t performed my best on that stage yet,” says the 22-year-old. Forgetting is easy when you can
remember making the cut at the U.S. Open at age 18, as Tackett did in 2011, a year before going pro. Or when you make four PBA Tour telecasts before your 23rd birthday.
“Not once through that match with Bill did I think, ‘Oh, I lost to Belmo twice.’ Or, ‘I have been here before and I haven’t done it yet,’” Tackett says. “It could be that I had
been bowling well all week, and the look was good all week, but those are things I never thought about.” Tackett did indeed bowl well all week, qualifying for the stepladder finals as the No. 1 seed and blasting O’Neill with a seven-bagger for a 256-213 rout in the title match. Though lessons learned from failure may have deepened Tackett’s perspective, he prefers to dwell on the surface of things. Literally. “The surface [at South Planes Lanes]
was an older surface,” he says. “At my bowling center at home, we have HPL
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