Mike Dole wins Diamond Jo Regional for 1st PBA title
JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: 9/20/2015, 10:00 PM
Mike Dole, left, with Cherry Lanes General Manager Bob Hochrein after Dole won PBA Budweiser Midwest Open Hosted by Diamond Jo on Sunday. Photo by Midwest PBA.
A lazy observer might look at Mike Dole’s commanding win in Sunday’s PBA Regional at Cherry Lanes in Dubuque, Iowa and say it must have been a pattern that favored left-handers.
A closer look at the standings would cure anyone of that thought, as the only other lefty in the field was Matt McNiel — the man inarguably having the best 2015 of any non-PBA Tour bowler — and he finished 19th in the 35-player field.
Dole, meanwhile, led qualifying with 1,724 for seven games on...