A U.S. Open should be a grind. It should be the toughest test in a sport. You should have to suffer in order to win it.
For that reason, I always was a huge fan of the U.S. Open when the PBA Tour ran it and put down a flat lane pattern for the first decade-plus of this century.
Scores were absurdly low by modern standards, but the competition invariably was compelling and produced some of the most memorable tournaments in PBA history, including Pete Weber’s “Who do you think you...