It’s almost hard to wrap your head around the fact that just a little over two years ago, Jakob Butturff was a virtual unknown, as I chronicled in this story in early 2017.
Butturff first attracted national attention when he won the New Mexico Open in August 2015, beating Francis Lavoie — another relative unknown at the time who became a PBA Tour champion and household name — in the title match.
Butturff made his first PBA Tour TV show at the World Series of Bowling in...