Anyone looking at Rob Gotchall’s nine games at the 2015 United States Bowling Congress Open Championships probably is going to say his clutch finish of 248 and 258 is what allowed him to pass Chad Maas’ 2,152 for the all-event lead with 2,181.
And while that is indisputably true, I would argue that the key game happened more than an hour earlier when he opened doubles with 269.
According to the doubles leaderboard, among the current top 73 duos there have been only three...