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Is Jason Belmonte a day and a game from ending 2019 Player of the Year race? Holding big lead at PBA World Championship on Saturday would make him top seed for third straight major

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Friday, March 15, 2019 11:00 pm
Is Jason Belmonte a day and a game from ending 2019 Player of the Year race? Holding big lead at PBA World Championship on Saturday would make him top seed for third straight major
Jason Belmonte holds a commanding lead heading into the final pre-TV day of the 2019 PBA World Championship. Photo by Pro Bowlers Association.
Hall of Famer Chris Barnes isn’t known for making hyperbolic statements on social media, but he made one Friday night that stunned me a bit when I saw it early Saturday morning. After Jason Belmonte opened a 259-lead heading into Saturday’s 16 games of match play before the top five are set for the televised stepladder finals of the 2019 PBA World Championship, Flo Bowling posted a tweet asking if anyone would catch Belmonte. Barnes went beyond that question about the World...