Robert Smith loves to bowl. So much that he would do almost anything to keep bowling, even switching to 2-handed, which is blasphemy to some of his former PBA Tour competitors and champions such as Brian Voss and Mike Machuga.
Stressed by years of his extreme, ultra-powerful style, the 7-time PBA Tour champion’s body simply gave out: The pain in his hip and back became so bad that he was withdrawing from more tournaments than he finished, most recently the 2019 USBC Masters at the...