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Norm Duke puts on shotmaking clinic at 2017 U.S. Open in what Chad Murphy says may have been the tournament’s last with this format

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Sunday, October 29, 2017 11:00 pm
Norm Duke puts on shotmaking clinic at 2017 U.S. Open in what Chad Murphy says may have been the tournament’s last with this format
Shotmaker supreme Norm Duke took the lead in the 2017 U.S. Open after Sunday's third round of qualifying. Photo by United States Bowling Congress.
If you gathered a group of bowling “experts” in a room and asked them to list the 10 greatest shotmakers of the last 50 years, the odds would be overwhelming that Norm Duke would be on every list — and probably up high. There is nothing he hasn’t done with a bowling ball, winning on the PBA Tour from one gutter to the other, with a sweeping hook and nearly a straight ball, on high- and low-scoring conditions, and with almost every type of bowling ball. Even at 53, Duke...