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11-hit wonder Tom Hess wins 2024 PBA50 Tournament of Champions to cap greatest year not to earn Player of the Year

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Thursday, August 15, 2024 11:00 pm
11-hit wonder Tom Hess wins 2024 PBA50 Tournament of Champions to cap greatest year not to earn Player of the Year
PBA Commissioner Tom Clark, left, with Tom Hess after Hess won the 2024 PBA50 Tournament of Champions. Photo by PBA.
Tom Hess won the 2024 PBA50 Tournament of Champions on Thursday night to cap one of the greatest seasons in PBA50 history: five wins that included a major, a second in another major, and seven championship round appearances and 12 cashes in 15 tournaments. And it wasn’t good enough to give the PBA Hall of Famer his second PBA50 Player of the Year honor. John Janawicz earned that honor by decisively outdistancing Hess in points 41,688-33,303, according to the statistics posted here....