Wes Malott

Wesley Clint "Big Nasty" Malott (born October 26, 1976 in Austin, Texas) is an American professional ten-pin bowler who resides in Pflugerville, Texas. He has ten titles (one major) in ten-plus seasons on the PBA tour, having won at least one title in four straight seasons (2005–06 through 2008–09). Malott also won the 2006–07 Showplace Lanes Megabucks Shootout, which is not a PBA Tour event. He has finished runner-up in a PBA major tournament five times.

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Malott also owns 17 PBA Regional titles. As of the end of the 2016 season, his career PBA Tour earnings have topped $1.1 million (U.S.). He has rolled 39 perfect 300 games in PBA Tour events through 2016. Wes is a Pro Staff member for Roto Grip bowling balls, Dexter shoes and Vise grips.

In a close race, Malott won the 2008–09 PBA Player of the Year Award over Norm Duke (74 points to Duke's 70). In his finest season to date, Malott made nine TV finals appearances, won three times, and collected a career-high $174,680. He won the PBA's George Young High Average award with a season mark of 222.98. He also won all five of his matches in winning ESPN2's made-for-TV "King of Bowling" event, which was broadcast over five weeks on a tape-delay basis in April–May, 2009. Malott rolled 300 games in two of his five matches.

At the 2009 PBA World Series of Bowling in Allen Park, MI, Malott made the TV finals in two of the seven events: the PBA Shark Championship and PBA World Championship, but failed to win either tournament. In the World Championship, he was denied his first major title when he was upset by newcomer Tom Smallwood, 244-228. Smallwood is originally from Saginaw, Michigan, and had been laid off from his automotive plant job less than a year before defeating Malott for the championship.

Although Malott failed to win a tournament in the 2009–10 season (the first time he had been shut out since 2004–05), he did finish second on the Tour in average (221.33) and fifth in points, while making five TV finals appearances.

Malott won a title in the 2011–12 season in the Mark Roth-Marshall Holman Exempt Doubles Championship with partner Norm Duke.

In the 2012–13 season, he finished runner-up in the USBC Masters to Jason Belmonte. Later in the season, he got his revenge on Belmonte, defeating him in the final match of Bowling's U.S. Open in Columbus, Ohio for Wes' first major championship. He won his ninth PBA title later in the 2012–13 season, in the Cheetah Championship at the 2013 World Series of Bowling, marking the first time since 2008–09 that he won multiple titles in a single season. He also posted a career-high 228.09 average in Tour events.

Malott and partner Norm Duke won their second Mark Roth-Marshall Holman Doubles Championship in 2015. The win gave Malott ten PBA Tour titles, which qualifies him for PBA Hall of Fame consideration.

On April 12, 2017, Malott won the PBA "King of the Hill" competition in Portland, Maine. This was a special, non-title event broadcast live on the PBA's Xtra Frame webcast service, held in conjunction with the PBA League and Mark Roth-Marshall Holman Doubles Championship during the same week in Portland. Malott successfully defended his King of Bowling crown on June 26, 2017 in a special Xtra Frame event, winning the best two-of-three match against Tommy Jones.