by Jerry Schneider

The PBA Tour returns to the CBS Sports Network Tuesday, June 3, at 7 p.m. ET with the finals of the Oklahoma’s Grand Casino Resort PBA Summer Swing Wolf Open from the Grand Event Center inside the Grand Casino Hotel and Resort complex.

Chris Barnes of Double Oak, Texas, a 17-time PBA Tour winner and 2007-08 PBA Player of the Year, will lead five players into the finals of the first of five events conducted as part of this season’s Summer Swing.

Qualifying for the Wolf Open was conducted on the 32-foot Wolf lane condition at the FireLake Bowling Center in Shawnee, Okla.

In the opening match, seven-time Tour winner Sean Rash of Montgomery, Ill., will meet No. 5 qualifier and Wolf Open defending champion Chris Loschetter of Avon, Ohio, who is trying for his second PBA Tour title.

Rash, the 2011-12 Player of the Year, will be trying for his first title since the World Bowling Tour Thailand Open last October.

The winner of the opening match advances to face Sweden’s Martin Larsen in the semifinal. Larsen is trying for his first Tour title. His previous best finish was third in the 2012 Dick Weber PBA Playoffs.

The match three winner will face No. 2 qualifier Mike Fagan of Fort Worth, Texas, a four-time Tour winner. Fagan’s last title was the 2012 Brunswick Euro Challenge.

The semifinal match winner will take on Barnes, who averaged 249 to qualify for the top rung in the stepladder finals. Barnes finished 17th in last year’s Wolf Open, the worst of his five 2013 Summer Swing events, but he went on to win the Milwaukee Open – last year’s version of this year’s Oklahoma Open – with a 246-237 decision over Norm Duke in the title match.

The winner of the Wolf Open automatically earns a berth in the end-of-series King of the Swing special event. All five two-hour shows will be telecast by the CBS Sports Network on consecutive Tuesday nights at 7 p.m. ET. Following the Wolf Open will be the Bear Open (June 10), the Badger Open (June 17), the Oklahoma Open (June 24) and Oklahoma’s Grand Casino Resort King of the Swing on July 1.