It’s almost incomprehensible to think that any player could out-average the best players in the world by 14 pins a game through two rounds of any tournament, much less the U.S. Open.
But that’s what Kris Prather has done at the 2018 U.S. Open at Northrock Lanes in Wichita, Kansas.
Prather, a 26-year-old right-hander with a beautiful fundamental game, rolled games of 226, 195, 256, 200, 238, 202, 248 and 258 in Friday’s first of three rounds of qualifying on a 37-foot flat...