ARLINGTON, Texas – For the fourth consecutive year, Royal Pin Woodland will play host to the U.S. Open, a major championship on the Professional Bowlers Association Tour, as 108 bowlers will be in Indianapolis all week competing for a $100,000 top prize, the coveted green jacket and the opportunity to add their name to the list of athletes who have won bowling’s most prestigious major title.

The 2025 U.S. Open presented by Go Bowling! will begin on Sunday at Royal Pin Woodland with an eight-game pre-tournament qualifier and wrap up with a pair of live stepladder finals broadcasts, the first on Feb. 1 on FS1 and the second on Feb. 2 on FOX.

The U.S. Open is the second event on the 2025 PBA Tour schedule as the PBA Delaware Classic kicked off on Monday and will continue until the season’s first champion is crowned during Saturday’s stepladder finals, which will air at 5 p.m. Eastern on FS1.

U.S. Open action gets underway Sunday morning when nearly 100 bowlers bowl the PTQ, which is scheduled to start at 9:30 a.m. Eastern.

A minimum of five bowlers will advance from the PTQ into the tournament’s main field, which will feature 108 competitors. 

Monday will be the official practice sessions, which will run from 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Eastern and give athletes the opportunity to familiarize themselves with all four oil patterns being utilized at the 2025 U.S. Open.

Tournament competition will officially begin Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. Eastern when the bowlers on A Squad hit the lanes for their first eight-game qualifying block. B Squad and C Squad will follow at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. Eastern, respectively. All qualifying squads will bowl on fresh oil.

All competitors will complete 24 games of qualifying over three days on three different lane conditions before the field is cut from 108 bowlers down to the top 24. 

Those 24 players will earn the right to compete in three rounds of round-robin match play with 48-game totals, including 30 bonus pins for each win during match play, determining the final nine bowlers who will advance to the two stepladder finals broadcasts. 

The first show will feature seeds No. 5-9 battling it out on FS1 on Feb. 1 at 4 p.m. Eastern. The bowler who wins that stepladder will join seeds No. 1-4 for the championship round on Feb. 2 at 4 p.m. Eastern on FOX.

The same two-show stepladder finals format was used at the 2023 U.S. Open, which saw EJ Tackett of Bluffton, Indiana, defeat Kyle Troup of Taylorsville, North Carolina, by a score of 221-208 to capture his first U.S. Open title.

Last year, Troup avenged that loss and added his name to the long and impressive list of U.S. Open champions by defeating 2022 winner Anthony Simonsen of Las Vegas by a score of 223-181.

Now, Troup will look to reach the winner’s circle for the second year in a row at Royal Pin Woodland and become the first bowler to successfully defend a U.S. Open title since Dave Husted accomplished the feat by winning the tournament in 1995 and 1996.

Troup’s bid for a successful title defense will certainly not be easy, however, as the 2025 U.S. Open field features more than a dozen past PBA major champions, competitors representing Team USA, Junior Team USA and multiple international teams from around the world and several of the nation’s top collegiate bowlers as well.

Success at this year’s tournament will likely depend upon each bowler’s ability to understand and successfully navigate each of this year’s four U.S. Open oil patterns, which are usually considered to be among the toughest in the sport of bowling.

The 2025 U.S. Open will be a collaborative effort between the United States Bowling Congress and Bowling Proprietors’ Association of America and will be considered a major on the PBA Tour. The total prize fund for the event will exceed $275,000.

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