Heading into the USBC Masters and U.S. Open, top-level bowling has mostly managed to avoid the COVID-19 issues that have had other sports sidelining players and canceling games.
As far as I know, the PBA hasn&rsquo;t done formal COVID-19 testing for its large-scale events and the only known issue has been Bill O&rsquo;Neill getting COVID-19 after the Players Championship qualifying weekend and having to miss the regional stepladder finals TV show he had qualified for, as I detailed in this...

The USBC Masters and U.S. Open are not being conducted in a bubble, and the results were predictable and should tell you why many people — including Tom Daugherty — elected not to take the risk to compete.

Gragos' case illustrates the predictable messiness of bowling acting like other sports in the face of COVID-19