Eugene McCune

Eugene McCune, born in 1968 and living in Munster, Indiana, is a right-handed American professional ten-pin bowler known for winning three PBA titles between 2002 and 2012. His late father is PBA and USBC Hall of Famer Don McCune and his son Kevin won the 2023 PBA Players Championship, which makes the McCunes the only three-generation family of PBA Tour title holders. He was known on tour as the Human Rocket Launcher for ball speed above 22 miles per hour, and he holds two scoring records on the short Cheetah oil pattern: 3,647 pins in a 14 game qualifying block in 2005, a 260.5 average, and 2,468 pins in a nine game block in 2010, a 274.2 average with two 300 games. Two of his three PBA Tour titles came at the Cheetah Open or Cheetah Championship, and in 2010 he beat Norm Duke by one pin, 238-237. He also holds three PBA50 Tour titles, 24 PBA Regional Tour titles and seven PBA50 Regional Tour titles.