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Tom Hess steals 2025 Bud Moore PBA50 Players Championship title from John Janawicz to complete the PBA50 Grand Slam

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Wednesday, May 21, 2025 9:45 pm
Tom Hess steals 2025 Bud Moore PBA50 Players Championship title from John Janawicz to complete the PBA50 Grand Slam
Tom Hess smiles after winning the 2025 Bud Moore PBA50 Players Championship. Photo by PBA.
After 42 games at the 2025 Bud Moore PBA50 Players Championship, Tom Hess was 699 pins behind dominating top seed John Janawicz and only secured the fifth and final seed for the stepladder finals by three pins over Tom Daugherty. But the tournament moved from Bowl America Woodbridge in Woodbridge, Virginia to the pair of lanes (13-14) in the basement of sponsor Bill Moore’s home for the stepladder Wednesday night. It still was the 2025 Billy Hardwick 44 lane pattern, but with a different...