Troup participated in 10 of 35 matches, going 0–4 in singles, 2–0 in doubles, and 0–3 in team. At the 2021 Weber Cup, the USA was defeated by Team Europe, 18–17.
Overall in the 2020 event, Troup participated in 14 of 41 matches, going 3–3 in singles, 2–4 in doubles, and 1–1 in team. In the 2020 Weber Cup, Troup and Team USA again defeated Team Europe, 23–18. Troup bowled in ten matches over the 32-match event, going 5–0 in singles, 0–3 in doubles, and 1–1 in team. Troup and his Team USA teammates won the 2019 Weber Cup over Team Europe. At the 2018 World Bowling Tour Men's Championships in Hong Kong (held November 24–December 5), he won a gold medal in trios with teammates Andrew Anderson and E. On January 7, 2018, Troup finished as the top qualifier at the United States Bowling Congress Team USA Trials, making the team for the first time in his career.
Troup is a member of the Storm and Vise Grips pro staffs.Īs a teenager, Troup was one of the youngest-ever members of the North Carolina All Stars team, bowling in events across South Carolina and Georgia in addition to his home state. At the PBA Tour Finals on June 5, 2022, Troup bowled the 33rd televised 300 game in PBA Tour history. Troup would finish the 2021 season with $496,900 in earnings. With his $100,000 win at the PBA Playoffs on May 16, 2021, Troup set the PBA's single-season earnings record with $469,200, surpassing the $419,700 earned by Walter Ray Williams Jr. Since 2018, Troup also competes internationally as a member of Team USA. He won his first national PBA Tour title at the 2015 PBA Wolf Open and has nine PBA Tour titles to date, including one major championship and two wins in the PBA Playoffs.
Troup has been a member of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) since 2008, and began completing full-time on the PBA Tour in 2015. Troup says he needed two hands when learning to throw the ball as a young child, calling himself self-taught in that regard. He uses the two-handed shovel-style delivery with a dominant right hand. We’ll keep the body in shape, keep bowling a little over the summer, and be ready for next season.Kyle Troup (born June 11, 1991) is an American professional ten-pin bowler residing in Taylorsville, North Carolina. “Obviously, it gives me some momentum going forward. In addition to numerous achievements in his 22-year career in the PBA, the Hall-of-Famer’s second place finish in the PBA playoff was his best to date – an accomplishment that will no doubt serve to propel him into next season. I still love to do it and absolutely love to compete, especially in these arenas.” “It was definitely a boost of confidence to get everything done and bowl the way I did this year,” he said. Though it was Jones’ only win in the finals, the 43-year-old can look back on a career that has found its second wind after a brief hiatus from the sport.
PBA bowler Tommy Jones winds up for his throw down the lane in the fourth game of the PBA Playoff finals as opponent Kyle Troup looks on May 15, 2022.īack against the wall, Jones bowled a near-flawless 279 score in the third game to hand Troup his only game loss in the playoffs. “We’ve had a great string of moments through the years where one of us has one hundred percent lost it, meaning we are in tears, we are laughing, our head is down, and our hand is on the mute button so that none of it goes over the air,” Stone said. Stone laughed, and when it comes to comedy, it’s certainly a two-way street.
The two have learned to expect the unexpected from each other, like when Pedersen called the outside of the lane “slicker than an otter’s pocket” at one point in the semifinals. “You never know what him and I are going to come up with and I think that’s what makes it so fun.” “It’s not even work when you cover an event with him,” Pedersen said about his work with Stone. Comedic gestures, expressions and professional knowledge are peppered in between strikes and spares to form an entertaining connection for fans new and old. Sitting behind the booth is to witness the foundation of the two broadcasters’ working relationship. FOX broadcasters Rob Stone (left) and Randy Pedersen (right) called the finals match between Kyle Troup and Tommy Jones on Sunday.įOX broadcasters Rob Stone and Randy Pedersen are tasked with giving viewers a positive experience back home.