Dominic Simon Barrett (often called Dom Barrett) (born 30 July 1985 in

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) is one of England's leading

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bowlers. He competes in world events and on the

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, where he has won ten titles. This total includes three PBA major titles: the

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(2013), the U.S. Open (2018) and the Tournament of Champions (2022), which makes him the eighth triple crown winner in PBA history and the first European player to accomplish the feat. He has been the ranking winner on the

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(EBT) in three seasons (2010, 2012 and 2013) and is also the only player to have been named as ‘World Bowling Writers’ bowler of the year three consecutive times. He is nicknamed "The Dominator". For much of his PBA career, Barrett was sponsored by the

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division of

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. He is now a member of the Brunswick pro staff after Brunswick purchased Ebonite in late 2019. He is also sponsored by Turbo 2n1 grips and Dexter shoes.

Perfect Games

To date, Barrett has bowled 65 perfect 300 games in professional competition, including 18 on the

Achievements

Barrett has 13

(EBT) titles to his name as of the end of the 2019 season, plus eight PBA titles through the 2019 season.

2008

Barrett was the EBT ranking runner-up in 2008.

2009

In the first stage of the World Tenpin Masters, Barrett won 2–0 against Guy Caminsky from South Africa. In the second stage of the tournament, Barrett won 2–0 against Paeng Nepomuceno from the Philippines. In the third stage, he defeated Finnish bowler

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2–0. He then beat Chris Barnes in the semifinals with a two-game score of 490. In the end, Barrett won th
World Tenpin Masters
at the

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with a 505 over two games, beating his opponent

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. Barrett would also win the

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with Team Europe this year.

2010

Barrett was Ranking Winner on the EBT for the 2010 season.

2011

On November 19, 2011, in his American television debut (broadcast February 19, 2012), Barrett defeated American Sean Rash of Montgomery, IL, 247–204, to win the

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Scorpion Open at the South Point Casino and Hotel in

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. This was his first PBA Tour title.

2012

While unable to win a PBA title, Barrett was Ranking Winner on the EBT for the 2012 season.

2013

Barrett won th
Weber Cup XIV
with Team Europe teammates

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, Martin Larsen and Stuart Williams. He captured the 2013

for his second PBA Tour title and first PBA major. He then won the 2013

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Open in Doha, Qatar, which qualified as his third PBA title in addition to a World Bowling Tour title. On the EBT, Barrett was Ranking Winner for the third time in his career in 2013.

2014

Barrett successfully defended his 2013 Qatar Open championship by winning the event again on 27 November 2014. He defeated Stuart Williams 395–388 over the two-game final in an all-England title match. This was his fourth PBA title.

2015

Barrett finished runner-up at the 2015 Bowlmor AMF U.S. Open, defeating three opponents in the stepladder final before losing to

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in the final match, 236–223. In December, 2015, Barrett was the #1 seed for the PBA World Bowling Tour Men's Finals, held in

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, and defeated

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in the final match. The three finalists for this non-title event were chosen and seeded based on a rolling points list of PBA International-World Bowling Tour tournaments held over the previous two years. Barrett made a career-high nine championship round appearances during the 2015 PBA season.

2016

Despite not winning a PBA Tour event in 2016, Barrett still had PBA earnings of almost $117,000 (USD), thanks to a third-place finish in the PBA World Championship and a second-place finish in DHC PBA Japan Invitational.

2017

Barrett topped a 345-player field at the Brunswick Euro Challenge on 26 March 2017, defeating

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's Jojoe Yannaphon in the final match to win the

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12,500 first prize and his fifth PBA title. As one of the top eight PBA Tour money leaders from the start of the 2015 season through the 2017

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, Barrett was invited to participate in the inaugural Main Event PBA Tour Finals in May, 2017. He placed seventh in the event.

2018

On January 28, 2018, Barrett won his sixth PBA title at the DHC PBA Japan Invitational in

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, topping American

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in the final match. On October 31, Barrett won his seventh PBA title and second PBA major at the U.S. Open, defeating top seed

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in the final match by a single pin, 207–206. Following this win, Barrett is now title-eligible for the PBA Hall of Fame (having two major championships with at least five total titles). Barrett was announced as a finalist for the 2018 PBA Player of the Year award, but the award was given to Andrew Anderson.

2019

Barrett qualified as the #14 seed for the inaugural

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in 2019. He made it to the Round of 8 before being defeated by #6 seed Sean Rash. Barrett won his eighth PBA Tour title at the PBA-WBT Kuwait Open on November 8, 2019. Per tournament rules, Barrett had to beat the #1 qualifier,

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's Arnar Jonsson, twice to earn the title, which he did by scores of 289–235 and 278–277. Barrett also won the non-title World Bowling Tour Men's Finals during this same stop.

2022

After going through the COVID-shortened 2020 PBA Tour season and the 2021 season without winning, Barrett returned to the winner's circle on February 27, 2022, winning the

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. After a convincing 279–201 semifinal match win over

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, Barrett defeated top seed

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210–189 in the final match. Barrett's ninth PBA title gave him a win in all three of the PBA Tour's original major championships, making him the eighth triple crown winner in PBA history. Barrett won his tenth PBA Tour title at the Storm Cup: Colorado Springs Open on March 24, 2022. As the No. 1 seed, he defeated Finland's Santtu Tahvanainen 244–234 in the final match. Barrett also earned a $5,000 (USD) bonus for finishing second in points over the four-event Storm Cup series. On July 3, Barrett won the Brunswick Euro Challenge in

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for his 14th EBT title. (The event was not counted a PBA Tour stop this season.) He defeated Sweden's Kim Bolleby in the final stepladder match, 236–235, to earn the title and

11,000 top prize. Barrett cashed a career-high $201,595 (USD) in PBA earnings during the 2022 season.

PBA career statistics

Statistics are through the last complete PBA season. +CRA = Championship Round Appearances

PBA titles

Major championships in bold type. # 2011 WSOB III Scorpion Open (

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) # 2013 PBA World Championship (Las Vegas, Nevada) # 2013 PBA-WBT Qatar Open (

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) # 2014 PBA-WBT Qatar Open (Doha, Qatar) # 2017 PBA-WBT Brunswick Euro Challenge (

) # 2018 DHC PBA Japan Invitational (

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) # 2018 74th U.S. Open (

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) # 2019 PBA-WBT Kuwait Open (

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) # 2022 PBA Tournament of Champions (

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) # 2022 Storm Cup: Colorado Springs Open (

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)

Personal

Barrett now resides in

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, England. His wife Cassie gave birth to the couple's first child, a son named Colby Henry Barrett, on August 18, 2018.

References

External links

Industry profile of Dominic Barrett

Dominic Barrett's web site

TalkTenpin.net news report
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