Jason Belmonte on what his COVID-19 pandemic layoff taught him after a winless 2021, his singular goal for 2022, and his innovative idea for the PBA League
JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: 12/13/2021, 8:00 AM
Jason Belmonte after winning the 2020 PBA World Championship in March 2020. He has not won a PBA Tour title since. Photo by PBA.
Fans, pundits and players thinking Jason Belmonte is washed up, or even just no longer the best after a winless 2021, should consider that the last time the powerful 2-hander went winless was 2016 and he followed that year with a 4-title, 3-major-win Player of the Year campaign in 2017.
It’s been about 21 months since Belmonte won the 2020 PBA World Championship as the COVID-19 pandemic was shutting down the world, but it seems a lot longer.
Relative to most of his fellow PBA competitors...