DeeRonn Booker
DeeRonn Booker is an American professional ten-pin bowler. On March 31, 2024, Booker became the third African American bowler to win a major title on the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) Tour.[2] BackgroundOriginally from Pomona, California,[3] Booker lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico[2] where he is the pro shop manager of the Starlight Bowling Center located inside the Santa Ana Star Casino Hotel.[3] In 2009, Booker appeared on The Price Is Right television show, winning the showcase showdown.[2] Career
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March 2024[4] Booker won the doubles Eagle at the July 2023 USBC Open Championships, and during January 2023's Team USA Trials Booker led the first round of qualifying.[4] From 2018 through 2023, Booker cashed in 13 of 36 PBA events.[1] On March 31, 2024, in his second year as a full-time professional bowler[3] and in his PBA Tour television debut,[4] Booker won the 2024 USBC Masters tournament held at Suncoast Bowling Center in Las Vegas.[2] This, his first tour title, was in a major PBA national tournament.[2] He qualified 58th out of 465 players in the 64-player double-elimination phase,[3] but won six consecutive three-game total pinfall matches to earn the No. 1 seed position for the stepladder final.[5] He won the championship game and received the $100,000 first prize.[2] Booker thus became the third African American man to win a title and major on the PBA Tour, joining George Branham III (1993) and Gary Faulkner Jr. (2015).[3] Booker's "strike song" during the televised March 2024 Masters broadcast was the Price is Right theme song, a reference to his 2009 appearance on that TV show.[2] See alsoReferences
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