When E.J. Tackett soared to a 271-pin lead during Friday’s cashers round of the 2022 U.S. Open I wrote that “Lane pattern 4 is used from the cashers round on, which appears to make Tackett a lock to be the top seed. However, as any serious bowler or bowling fan knows, every time a lane pattern is put down, it turns out different, and gets made different as bowlers compete.”
Friday night’s first round of match play at Woodland Bowl in Indianapolis came on a fresh...