PBA US Open Predict.

S.Samek

Tonight, five men lace up the shoes and roll the bags into the alley. This time for a major championship, The United States Open.

The opening match of the step ladder is five seed Norm Duke and fourth seed Graham Fach. Duke is looking to secure his third U.S Open win and major win number eight in addition to title number 39 for his career. Fach has one once on tour, but it was the 2016 Barbasol PBA players championship, a major title.

  The winner gets three seed Wes Malott. Malot is a 10-time winner, including winning this event before. He looks to become the 12th multi-winner of this event all time. Sitting in the two seed is Rhino Page. Page used a win over Fach in the position round to jump into second position. He is looking for his first major title and sixth overall.

  The top competitor for the Tournament is Jakob Butturff. He led qualifying with 13,101 total pins after match play bonus were included after 56 games. This was 617 pins better than Page. He is looking for his first major title win as well. The step ladder looks wide open. While Duke, Malott and Page haven’t been as competitive as they used to be they are major threats. Duke and Malott both know what it is like to win majors, especially the U.S Open. It should be a confidence builder. Fach does have a major to build on as well.

  Page and Butturff are both going to come out hungry for that first major title. Though hopefully they can control the excitement and not make mistakes that would cost them. I could see this being a problem with Butturff, as he is a younger player with no major title wins. Though he isn’t a total stranger to TV with two standard titles won.

  I would say that Butturff is coming in hot though. He easily led this tournament by a large margin. He only has to win one match to take it all. Should inspire some confidence in him.

  I think he takes it all. He faces off against Norm Duke in the finals and beats him is my prediction.

  See it tonight at 7:30.