This is the first year one of the locals has closed the deal. I executed pretty well. I've made some changes for the better, and I'm still fine tuning them.

I go into every tournament expecting to win. It was a little tougher here with the cross country travel, but I try to block all that out and just keep my mind and body at an even keel.

I mainly just wanted to bowl at home. It's fun to bowl at home. Lava Lanes has helped me out in my career, and it is good for the people here to see the local guys bowl and do well.

It's nice to win in front of the home people. I bowled a pretty solid game with only one bad ball in the ninth frame, and I still spared it. It was one of the better tournaments I've bowled here in a while.

A lot of it is upgrading. People who bought a general admission package in the past may buy a (better) package (next year).

It's just so expensive to put on these events it just made it very difficult to continue without a title sponsor. We probably could have run the tournament, but we probably wouldn't have been able to give this kind of money to charity.