Kyle Troup

Kyle Troup (born June 11, 1991) is an American professional ten-pin bowler from Taylorsville, North Carolina, now residing in Mt. Washington, Kentucky.

He uses the two-handed shovel-style delivery with a dominant right hand.

Troup says he needed two hands when learning to throw the ball as a young child, calling himself self-taught in that regard.

Troup has been a member of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) since 2008, and began competing full-time on the PBA Tour in 2015.

He won his first Regional title at age 19 in the 2010 Fort Jackson (SC) Non-Champion Regional.

He was named PBA Southern Region Player of the Year in both 2013 and 2014.

He won his first national PBA Tour title at the 2015 PBA Wolf Open and has twelve PBA Tour titles to date, including two major championships and two wins in the PBA Playoffs.

In 2015, Troup decided to bowl more events on the national PBA Tour, and made it to the championship round (the final stage of a PBA tournament) four times.

He won the 2015 PBA Wolf Open in Shawnee, Oklahoma for his first PBA Tour title.

He finished eighth in the South Shore PBA/PBA50 doubles with PBA50 player Jerry Brunette Jr.

In 2016, Troup finished second in the Downums Waste Services Xtra Frame Open, and fourth in the Gene Carter's Pro Shop Classic.

Troup's second PBA Tour title came on April 16, 2017 in the Mark Roth-Marshall Holman PBA Doubles Championship, where he teamed with left-handed two-hander Jesper Svensson for the title.

His only other TV finals appearance in 2017 was at the PBA World Championship major, where he finished fourth.

This was the second Roth-Holman doubles title for the Troup-Svensson duo, who also won this event in 2017.

Since 2018, Troup also competes internationally as a member of Team USA.

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. in the 2002–03 season.

Troup would finish the 2021 season with $496,900 in earnings.

At the PBA Tour Finals on June 5, 2022, Troup bowled the 33rd televised 300 game in PBA Tour history.

Troup is a member of the Storm and Vise Grips pro staffs.

As 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.

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.

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. J. Tackett.

On January 28, 2018, Troup made it to the final match of the DHC PBA Japan Invitational, but finished runner-up to top seed Dominic Barrett.

Troup won his third PBA title on September 9, 2018 at the Storm Lucky Larsen Masters in Malmö, Sweden, defeating reigning PBA Player of the Year Jason Belmonte in the final match.

Troup and his Team USA teammates won the 2019 Weber Cup over Team Europe.

Troup bowled in ten matches over the 32-match event, going 5–0 in singles, 0–3 in doubles, and 1–1 in team.

Kyle was a member of the Portland Lumberjacks team, winners of the 2019 PBA League competition.

He made a then-career high five championship round appearances in 2019, but did not win an individual title.

In the 2020 Weber Cup, Troup and Team USA again defeated Team Europe, 23–18.

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.

At the 2021 Weber Cup, the USA was defeated by Team Europe, 18–17.

Troup participated in 10 of 35 matches, going 0–4 in singles, 2–0 in doubles, and 0–3 in team.

Said to be one of the PBA's premier two-handed bowlers, Troup sometimes uses an older-technology urethane bowling ball on shorter oil patterns.

Troup has made 27 PBA championship round appearances through the 2021 season, and owns ten PBA Regional titles.

He has rolled 16 career 300 games in PBA competition through July 2020.

Troup spent his first five years as a PBA member bowling mostly in PBA Regional Tour events close to home, while he worked his regular job managing a Wendy's restaurant.

Troup won his fourth PBA Tour title at the 2020 PBA Jonesboro Open on February 1.

As the #1 seed for the stepladder finals, he defeated Chris Barnes in his sole championship match appearance, 290–269.

Troup won his fifth PBA Tour title at the 2020 Mark Roth-Marshall Holman PBA Doubles Championship on February 29.

As the #1 seeds for the final round, Troup and partner Jesper Svensson defeated E. J. Tackett and Marshall Kent, 234–205.