Most games played in a day or most consecutive days bowled?

[NewToBowling]

Just wondering the most games or longest anyone here has bowled in one day? Or how many consecutive days someone has bowled?

I usually bowl on Sundays as they have great deals ($6 for two hours after 6pm). Will pick up some games during the weeknights. I avoid Friday and Saturday nights altogether due to cost and cosmic bowling.

This last Sunday I played 6 games in the morning and 4 more in the evening for a total of 10 games.

I'm sure we have some people on here who have bowled 20-30 straight games?

[Aslan]

Most games in a day? When I was practicing for sweeps in Laughlin, NV I bowled 20 games...10 in the morning and 10 later that night. I routinely bowl 10-12 games when I practice so 20 wasn't the end of the world. But I WAS noticeably more tired.

As to most days in a row that I bowled...that would be 8. From 1/20 through 1/27 I bowled my Tuesday league, then 3 days of lunchtime practice to get ready for a tournament that weekend...then 2 days of tournament play, my usual Monday evening practice, then Tuesday league night again the following week.

[RobLV1]

At the height of my youth and stupidity, I once bowled 29 straight games. Now, at 65 years old, I can bowl six comfortably, and will occasionally bowl a ten-gamer, but the last couple of games are a stretch. Since I often bowl the Senior U.S. Open, I dread to think what would happen if I ever make the cut and have to bowl match play! LOL

[NewToBowling]

Most games in a day? When I was practicing for sweeps in Laughlin, NV I bowled 20 games...10 in the morning and 10 later that night. I routinely bowl 10-12 games when I practice so 20 wasn't the end of the world. But I WAS noticeably more tired.

As to most days in a row that I bowled...that would be 8. From 1/20 through 1/27 I bowled my Tuesday league, then 3 days of lunchtime practice to get ready for a tournament that weekend...then 2 days of tournament play, my usual Monday evening practice, then Tuesday league night again the following week.

So you take lunchtime off of work to bowl? How many games do you get in?

I've been considering this since my workplace is real relaxed and there is a bowling center near my work


At the height of my youth and stupidity, I once bowled 29 straight games. Now, at 65 years old, I can bowl six comfortably, and will occasionally bowl a ten-gamer, but the last couple of games are a stretch. Since I often bowl the Senior U.S. Open, I dread to think what would happen if I ever make the cut and have to bowl match play! LOL

Wow, 29 games. That's pretty rough but definitely doable.

With the ball fitting my hand pretty good (no pitch or span issues) my hand or arms don't hurt at all even after 10 games. Not sure about 29 though :)

[Aslan]

So you take lunchtime off of work to bowl? How many games do you get in?

I've been considering this since my workplace is real relaxed and there is a bowling center near my work


3 games or so. By the time I drive there, get my equipment on/out, bowl, put my equipment away, then drive back it's about an hour and a half to 2 hours.

[NewToBowling]

Most games in a day? When I was practicing for sweeps in Laughlin, NV I bowled 20 games...10 in the morning and 10 later that night. I routinely bowl 10-12 games when I practice so 20 wasn't the end of the world. But I WAS noticeably more tired.

As to most days in a row that I bowled...that would be 8. From 1/20 through 1/27 I bowled my Tuesday league, then 3 days of lunchtime practice to get ready for a tournament that weekend...then 2 days of tournament play, my usual Monday evening practice, then Tuesday league night again the following week.


At the height of my youth and stupidity, I once bowled 29 straight games. Now, at 65 years old, I can bowl six comfortably, and will occasionally bowl a ten-gamer, but the last couple of games are a stretch. Since I often bowl the Senior U.S. Open, I dread to think what would happen if I ever make the cut and have to bowl match play! LOL


3 games or so. By the time I drive there, get my equipment on/out, bowl, put my equipment away, then drive back it's about an hour and a half to 2 hours.

Thats a long lunch

[Newbie Dan]

I just bowled 10 games of practice on Saturday. It was a lot but I have only been bowling since January

[white_rabbitt]

9 is my most in a day/row. If my fingers didn't start blistering up, I would go till my arm fell off.

25 games was my most in a week.

I also bowl 3-4 games during my lunch break once or twice a week. Takes about an hour.

[Hampe]

Most games I'll ever do in one sitting is 12, and that's usually only for tournaments. I usually don't practice more than 7-8 games at a time (and it's normally less than that).

[vdubtx]

When I was younger I regularly did 20 games a day. Just don't have time for that now. Although I would love to do more, I only have time for 2 leagues a week with the occasional tournament or practice on the weekends.

[Perrin]

I used to bowl 2 leagues in one night so warm-ups 3 games warm-ups 4 games.

was a great time :)

[Ryan1700]

Somewhere over/around 40 one afternoon/night. Crazy I know. 2 people, non-stop from about 1-2ish in the afternoon until 11pm close. $200+ with league discount and some knocked off by the front desk...bar tab...also not good.

[fortheloveofbowling]

Most games in a day was 22 at a tournament that felt like 50. When i was younger i went through a stretch of roughly 2 months bowling everyday. I read once that Marion Ladewig who is considered by many to be the greatest woman bowler of all time bowled everyday for something like 22-23 years. I guess that is how you become the GOAT. A Buddy of mine that is very good and has a had a couple of top 10 finishes in the senior masters used to like to say 100 games a week is what it takes to achieve real success. I don't necessarily agree with that especially if you are out there just speed bowling. Smart practice focusing on different things is a must.

[Ryan1700]

^Agreed. After a certain point, usually for me around 15-20 games depending on circumstances, the actual practice suffers due to fatigue. May not even feel it per say but your body starts breaking down and compensating. Hard to get real feedback from it beyond that point.

[NewToBowling]

I honestly wouldn't mind trying out a marathon session.

[Aslan]

^Agreed. After a certain point, usually for me around 15-20 games depending on circumstances, the actual practice suffers due to fatigue. May not even feel it per say but your body starts breaking down and compensating. Hard to get real feedback from it beyond that point.

Agreed. As an older guy…once I've bowled about 9-14 games consecutively…the body starts to fatigue. After that I'm just on cruise control. An Im fortunate…because even though I'm older and have had knee issues and ankle issues…my knee has never really given out even during the marathon sessions. Early on when I was putting a lot more "muscling" into it I had pain in my shoulders…but the knee has remarkably held up fine. And I'm a realist…knowing that won't alwaays be true so I should take advantage of it while I can.

[NYMIKE]

Put up 13 games last week for $15 all you can bowl 2 hour special, tomorrow going bowling again will limit myself to 10 games, unless game 10 is a good game lol. This is the first time I'm bowling 4 times in one week.

[Aslan]

Just bowled 10 practice tonight. Gotta love 24-hour bowling.

I was physically fine…but the knee started getting sore by the 10th game. But mentally I was definitely done after 9. The 10th game was just an exercise in frustration and futility.

[NewToBowling]

Just bowled 11 games this morning with 2 hour bowling. Was pretty tired by 9th game

[foreverincamo]

I've done 30 for a tournament, but that was decades ago. These days no more than 10 over three hours. Proper pace keeps the fatigue down. Love to bowl!

[Aslan]

I look at my recent trip to Vegas and I view it as maybe 10 games Thursday, then about 12 games on Friday, then 3 on Saturday.

But if you make it 24-hour periods, the 10 games were bowled around 12-1AM Friday, then about 5 games for my lesson later that morning for 15 in a 12-hour period. Then those Friday night games were actually at about 2:30AM Saturday…and then sweeps was < 12 hours later…so that was another 10 over 12 hours.

It seems like a lot…but it didn't feel like a lot because I slept between sessions…gave the body time to relax and reset.

Laughlin was much harder on my body because although I did take a 2-3 hour nap during the day between sessions…

1) The weather was brutally hot. Essentially 108 degrees in the middle of the desert.
2) The casino the league stayed at was 'next to' the casino we bowled at…so I had to lug 6 balls (4-ball roller 2-ball shoulder bag) back and forth….easily a quarter mile each trip.

[ralphs007]

This is insane, there was a guy at the bowling center two weeks ago, who was bowling on his birthday. He just turned 55, and he was bowling one game for every years old he was. He ended up bowling 55 games! He started at ten in the morning and finished around eight o'clock that night.
I still don't know how he did it !