World Champion vying for home title
Ang's 265 in the second and 279 in the fifth game saw the 19-year-old youngster securing pole at the end of the block with 1846. UAE's Hussain Al-Suwaidi did well to finish second, 93 pins behind the Malaysian on 1753.
Ong settled for third with 1728 with another Singaporean, Paiman Bin Dali in fourth with 1715. Early leader, Lee Yu-Wen took up seventh spot with 1683 just one pin behind defending champion, Mika Koivuniemi of Finland in sixth spot with 1684.
Other Singaporeans in the finals were Jack Wong (10th-1668), Carl de Vries (21st-1578), Ong Qizong (24th-1544), Jason Yeong-Nathan (29th-1527), Eugene Low (30th-1526), David Wong (32nd-1524), Andrew Lee (33rd-1509), Sandrasageran (34th-1500), Rohezan Abd Manaf (39th-1477), Chiam Yew Beng (40th-1473) and Shaun Ng (42nd-1426).
The men will continue their second block at 9.00am on Saturday, May 31 where the top 6 would advance to the stepladder finals.