Are bowling and golf the only two sports where...

[rv driver]

It's one of the things I love about both sports!

They also both require repetition of very intricate motions that inevitably leads to different results/games every time out.

To me, thats the beauty of bowling right there -- the learning of intricate movement, like a dance, the repetition of the same, requiring an almost Zen approach, and the myriad differences that affect the outcome of each game. No matter how perfectly we repeat shots, we can never control the variable of how the pins are going to react each time.

[NewToBowling]

All true but it's an art that is not easily appreciated. So to the uneducated it looks like they are simply tossing the ball down the lane like every other time. Thus the reason it isn't a very popular spectator sport

[rv driver]

All true but it's an art that is not easily appreciated. So to the uneducated it looks like they are simply tossing the ball down the lane like every other time. Thus the reason it isn't a very popular spectator sport

I must be weird, 'cause I've always loved watching bowling. I like watching it better than football or baseball.

[NewToBowling]

I must be weird, 'cause I've always loved watching bowling. I like watching it better than football or baseball.

I definitely enjoy it now. I DVR all the shows on ESPN.

But football is still #1

[swingset]

Lots of sports are you against the course with no one else, many of the olympic sports certainly are that way....skiing, marathons, even shooting.

I shoot competitive 3-gun and IPSC and both are me against the course and shot-timer. Only afterwards are my scores compared.

Nothing unique about golf and bowling, except that they're very popular.