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Jakob Butturff again earns dominating top seed at U.S. Open; Kris Prather, E.J. Tackett, Dom Barrett, Marshall Kent will battle in stepladder for right to bowl Butturff for title
JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 11:00 pm
The stepladder finalists for the 2018 U.S. Open, left to right and in order from first to fifth: Jakob Butturff, Kris Prather, E.J. Tackett, Dom Barrett and Marshall Kent. Photo by United States Bowling Congress.
Jakob Butturff has authored one of the most impressive achievements in bowling history in the last two U.S. Opens, yet if he doesn’t win the 2018 title in Wednesday night’s stepladder finals live on CBS Sports Network at 7 p.m. Central time, he will in the purest sense have failed.
There is one goal for most professional athletes — winning — and anything less is a failure, even if everything leading up to the final decision was positive.
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