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Matt McNiel leads as 5 lefties among 16 players advancing to match play at 2020 Go Bowling PBA Cheetah Championship

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Sunday, March 8, 2020 11:00 pm
Matt McNiel leads as 5 lefties among 16 players advancing to match play at 2020 Go Bowling PBA Cheetah Championship
Matt McNiel led Sunday's qualifying of the Go Bowling PBA Cheetah Championship. Photo by Pro Bowlers Association.
The life of a lefty on the PBA Tour mostly is a feast or famine existence, and that’s pretty much how it always has been and likely always will be, unless and until someone invents an oil-less lane that doesn’t wear, making both sides play the same. Short of that oil-less lane, you have one small group of players and one large group of players competing on what inarguably are different conditions — even when oiled the same, topographical and wear differences make the two...