2022 U.S. Open lane patterns look as challenging as expected, with flat pattern second

The 2022 U.S. Open that starts Tuesday at Woodland Bowl in Indianapolis should provide a typically formidable challenge, with the toughest challenge coming in the second round of qualifying when a flat pattern is put out. That’s the same round for a flat pattern as 2021, while it was the third round in 2020, and the first round in 2019. (In the first decade-plus of this century when PBA operated the U.S. Open, it was all on a flat pattern.) Much of the chatter I heard and saw online duri...