Do you bowl in the summer?

[johncongdon]

I know that many bowling centers up north close in the summer. Do you bowl summer leagues? If not, is it because your center is closed? If it was open would you bowl?

I got my wife to bowl a league with me once, but only summer. She will not commit to a winter league as they are way too long (36 weeks in the one I bowl now). I think if league commitments were shorter, we may get more people to bowl.

[DanielMareina]

No centers in Oregon close for the summer as far as I know! Where is up north? I usually golf more than bowl during the summer, but last year I bowled a PBA experience league during the summer. I plan on bowling another sport league this summer too.

[Motiv Girl]

I bowl at least one league per summer.It must be a sport league.This summer
I plan on bowling in two leagues.Plus each summer I bowl numerous tournaments
and increase my practice sessions.
Summer is the time for improvement not rest.

[The Mayor]

I actually enjoy summer leagues more than fall leagues for the reason that John said. 12 weeks or so is much more palatable than 36.

[Mellen]

The summer league I roll in starts on the same night as roll-offs of my Thursday Mens league. Looks like I will miss the 1st night this season due to actually having a chance of being in the roll-offs this time.

I have never in my life heard of a house closing for the summer.

[kev3inp]

In the olden days houses would close for the summer to resurface the lanes. The Petersen was closed in the summer, too. The 80 lanes house back then would close half of the center in the summer, but they didn't do summer leagues so you could see it. I guess it made sense.

We bowl summer leagues, and go on a bowling vacation to NC for the Gathering. I wouldn't mind if the fall league season was split into two halves. Sometimes you'd like to stop being with some of the fellow bowlers ;)

[mrbowling300]

I don't bowl league, but plan on practicing at a place called bowling IQ in the Detroit area.

[DanielMareina]

[QUOTE=kev3inp;29643]In the olden days houses would close for the summer to resurface the lanes. The Petersen was closed in the summer, too. The 80 lanes house back then would close half of the center in the summer, but they didn't do summer leagues so you could see it. I guess it made sense.

It is amazing how far bowling has come. I still have wood lanes at my center, and it takes only two days of being closed to get the lanes resurfaced. Three if it is a year we have to get them cut and sanded. I really can't wait to switch to synthetic and not have to deal with it at all though!

[Stormed1]

This summer i will be bowling 3 leagues. A doubles league on Monday nights on sport shots , A 9 week have-a-ball league wednesday mornings a King of the hill series on Wednesday nights on sport shots

[J Anderson]

I bowled the last two summers in a sport league. This summer I plan to take a break from competition.

[Paralipsis]

I'm moving up to my first adult league this summer...so I guess I will. :D

[tracy]

our league bowls year around. gong from a four person mixed to a tree person league but we still have 25 teams all the time. when i bowled up north, they were very limited but in florida, almost evry night,they have leagues ot get into.

[kev3inp]

What area in Florida are you in, tracy? We couldn't find a Sunday night league that wasn't major/minor or pretty much anything on Saturday.

[tracy]

we are in st pete and bowl on a monday morning senior league year around. i bowl on thursday scratch but then they bowl on tues during the summer with another(which i don't bowl) and don't know about week enders.

[johncongdon]

Interesting responses. Just for clarification, I have heard that bowling centers close up north. Not sure where, and if all close or just some.

I may look into a sport league for the summer. Have to check around me for some.

[kev3inp]

The Tampa/St.Pete area is a hotbed of bowling and my wife and I travel there periodically. We have friends in the area that we visit and bowl with. I have to say that of the 3 or 4 centers we've been to in the area we liked Dunedin lanes the best.

[bowl1820]

The house here is open in the summer but I stopped bowling the summer leagues to save money. But I'll sub if I can.

[Stormed1]

I also plan on doing the Fred Borden coaching clinic this summer as i have some bad habits i gained while bowling in the cast i need to correct. We are also working on putting together a "learn and earn" coaching league this summer in which i will be one of the coaches

[csch79]

I plan on bowling a Sunday night league this summer. I don't have a team though so I'm going to just have to sign up and see if someone will take me, lol.

[jaydee]

Interesting responses. Just for clarification, I have heard that bowling centers close up north. Not sure where, and if all close or just some.

I may look into a sport league for the summer. Have to check around me for some.

I live "up north", it's mostly the smaller alley's (12-16 lanes) out in the rural areas that close for the summer (roughly late June to early August). Not enough business to justify staying open, the lanes and the machines need to be reconditioned anyway and the smaller places usually only have one guy (the manager) doing everything.

I'm going to bowl in a sport shot summer league (first times for both) this year.