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Rob Gotchall sets the Open Championships all-events bar higher with 2,181

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 4:00 am
Rob Gotchall sets the Open Championships all-events bar higher with 2,181
Rob Gotchall totaled 2,181 to take the all-events lead at the Open Championships. Photo by United States Bowling Congress.
Anyone looking at Rob Gotchall’s nine games at the 2015 United States Bowling Congress Open Championships probably is going to say his clutch finish of 248 and 258 is what allowed him to pass Chad Maas’ 2,152 for the all-event lead with 2,181.   And while that is indisputably true, I would argue that the key game happened more than an hour earlier when he opened doubles with 269. According to the doubles leaderboard, among the current top 73 duos there have been only three...