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Lane patterns look a bit more forgiving for 2024 Team USA Trials at Gold Coast

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Monday, January 1, 2024 3:00 pm
Lane patterns look a bit more forgiving for 2024 Team USA Trials at Gold Coast
Brandon Bohn, far left, and Jillian Martin, second from left, won the U.S. Amateur, and Breanna Clemmer, second from right, and Jakob Butturff, far right, won the 2023 Team USA Trials. Photo by USBC.
As I detailed in this story, the lane patterns for the 2024 U.S. Open and 2024 Team USA Trials were released by USBC due to Rob Gotchall, USBC’s Director of Short-Duration Tournaments, leaving to take a job with a ball company later identified as Storm Products. That story included details on the always difficult U.S. Open patterns, while this year's patterns are at the Team USA Trials results page, and they are are a little less difficult than 2023, according to the pattern ratios. At...