PARMA HEIGHTS, Ohio – Singapore’s Shayna Ng won the 2026 Professional Women’s Bowling Association Cleveland Open Thursday evening at Yorktown Lanes in Parma Heights, Ohio, defeating Jordan Snodgrass of Adrian, Michigan, 195-186. The victory secured Ng a spot in the season-ending PWBA Tour Championship after she entered the week on the bubble in the points race.
Ng earned the No. 1 seed after going 8-4 during two six-game rounds of match play earlier in the day, earning 240 bonus pins while averaging more than 216. Snodgrass was the No. 2 seed and faced No. 5 seed Felicia Wong of Canada in the semifinal. Wong had won two straight matches over No. 4 Maria Jose Bohr of Colombia, 217-177, and No. 3 New Hui Fen of Singapore, 208-202, to reach the semifinals and was the only left-hander in the match-play field. Bohr earned $3,000 for her fifth-place finish while New’s fourth-place finished earned her $3,500.
The semifinal match between Wong and Snodgrass was a back-and-forth affair as Snodgrass opened with a double before an open in the third thanks to the big four split, but picked up the 2-4-6-10 split the following frame to stay in striking distance. Wong had four straight single pin spares before her first strike in the fifth and both players fired off another two strikes.
Snodgrass fired two more strikes to put the pressure on Wong and the left-handed Canadian responded with a great shot in the eighth that was a touch high in the pocket, leaving the 4 pin. The following frame, Wong left a wrap 10 pin and just missed it, allowing Snodgrass to mark out for 228 while Wong finished with 204 and a third-place finish, earning $4,000.
The title match was much like the semifinal as neither Ng nor Snodgrass could pull ahead, and both had one open through eight frames. Ng left the 3-10 split in the sixth and managed to knock down only the 3 pin, while Snodgrass uncharacteristically missed the 2 pin in the eighth, leaving her with 146 and a maximum score of 206.
Ng struck in the eighth before converting the 10 pin one frame later, also leaving herself a chance at 206 and opening the possibility of a tie. Snodgrass struck in the ninth frame before a pocket 9 pin stood to start the final frame, which she converted, then struck in the fill ball for 186.
All Ng needed was a mark and she got just what she needed with a 10 pin, spare, strike to close out the event with 195, earning her fourth PWBA title and the $10,000 top prize. Snodgrass earned $5,000 for her runner-up finish.
It was quite the turnaround for Ng, who opened qualifying Wednesday with a 144.
“During the practice session, I thought the outside line was the right way to start,” said Ng. “So, I started there and everybody else went left, and boom, 144. The next game I moved left and shot 216 and then 259, the rest is history.”
Ng was focused on playing the lanes correctly and not who her opponent might be, whether it was Wong or Snodgrass.
“Felicia was running the ladder and I was prepared for her, but at the end of the day, it’s just me and the lanes,” said Ng. “I was just trying to make good shots, and the left lane was starting to get tricky, which is why I chose to end on the right lane. I stayed alert and ahead of the moves, kept it in the pocket and hoped that it struck.”
Heading into the week, Ng brought some much-needed momentum from the U.S. Women’s Open to Cleveland after a slow start to the season, and a 12th place finish there helped her regain some confidence.
“(After the U.S. Women’s Open) I had more confidence as all four patterns there were really tough, so I thought ‘OK, let’s see where this goes because I still have to bowl well during Tour Championship Week,’” Ng said. “I knew that I had to keep going and keep doing things that give me confidence.”
Ng hopes to keep that confidence level up during the next event of Tour Championship Week, the PWBA Pepsi Open, which starts Friday with two six-game qualifying blocks at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Eastern. The top 16 after qualifying will advance to the single-elimination bracket Saturday beginning at 10 a.m. Eastern, where the bracket will be used to determine the Pepsi Open champion.
Following that, this season’s winners will have an automatic berth into the Tour Championship event on Sunday, with the other spots being filled by the top 24 in points. Those players will bowl three eight-game blocks of round-robin match play over the course of Sunday and Monday, with the top five based on pinfall, including bonus pins, heading to the stepladder finals Tuesday evening at 6:30 p.m. Eastern.
All rounds of competition at the Pepsi Open and Tour Championship will be streamed live on BowlTV, with the stepladder finals of the Tour Championship being simulcast on Bowling TV. PWBA Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year honors will also be determined during the Tour Championship event.
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