The USBC Masters typically is a supreme grindout, with barely above a 200 average — and sometimes under 200 — needed to make the cut to match play. The cut scores for 15 games were 3,047 in 2022, 2,949 in 2021, 3,069 in 2019, and 3,054 in 2018. (There was no Masters in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.) In Monday’s first 5-game round of the 2023 USBC Masters at Thunderbowl Lanes in Allen Park, Michigan, the cut score was 1,094 — already more plus than for 15 games in...