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Butters is back: Jakob Butturff earns top seed at 2025 PBA Delaware Classic; Nick Pate, Graham Fach, A.J. Johnson, Michael Davidson also make stepladder finals
JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Thursday, January 23, 2025 11:00 pm
The stepladder finalists for the 2025 PBA Delaware Classic, left to right and in order from first to fifth: Jakob Butturff, Nick Pate, Graham Fach, A.J. Johnson, Michael Davidson. Photo by PBA.
By the standards he set for himself, Jakob Butturff’s 2024 season was a disaster.
Consider that he was just 38th in PBA Tour points, 11th among left-handers, and earned just $33,850 on eight cashes in 14 tournaments. The 8-time PBA Tour champion did not win a title.
Since he started bowling full-time in 2017, the powerful lefty with hypermobility (commonly called double-jointed though there actually is no such thing) in his wrist and thumb and an amazing corkscrew release and devastating...