2013 Open Championship Oil Patterns

[vdubtx]

Do you use a plastic ball for those? I'm asking because my first thought was, why?

I do use plastic, but for some reason I had to change my angle quite a bit and go much straighter up the lane to get my 3,6,9 or 10's that I left. Not sure what it was but angling across the lane like I typically do did not work for me there.

[billf]

Ok, good to know. I had a tournament about two months ago that the same thing happened to me. I thought I was doing something wrong that weekend with my spare shooting but seeing as you ran into the same thing I'm beginning to wonder.
I also noticed Fagan shooting straighter at spares on some patterns more than others. Makes one wonder.

[Greenday]

Ok, good to know. I had a tournament about two months ago that the same thing happened to me. I thought I was doing something wrong that weekend with my spare shooting but seeing as you ran into the same thing I'm beginning to wonder.
I also noticed Fagan shooting straighter at spares on some patterns more than others. Makes one wonder.

Going through this since I'll be bowling on the pattern tonight, I got to this last post and my coach and I were talking about this. You'd think, throwing a straight ball, it'd be the same at every house yet it isn't. When I'm at my practice alley, I stand on 34, throw over 20 for my ten-pin shots. At league, I stand on 35, throw over 19. You'd think it'd be the opposite because the second house is much more oily, but beats me.

If I recall correctly, when my team had the practice lane for Nationals, I personally felt I was getting a much better reaction when I was throwing straighter down around 7-8 then I was 10 board. More hook, better pin action. Two of the guys agreed with me, but since I was the most inexperienced, my opinion didn't get much weight and the team stuck with the 10 board. They did okay, but I felt we were doing better when we went just a hair outside more. Since I'm bowling by myself on the singles/doubles pattern tonight, I'm going to go with what I wanted to try.

[vdubtx]

Going through this since I'll be bowling on the pattern tonight, I got to this last post and my coach and I were talking about this. You'd think, throwing a straight ball, it'd be the same at every house yet it isn't. When I'm at my practice alley, I stand on 34, throw over 20 for my ten-pin shots. At league, I stand on 35, throw over 19. You'd think it'd be the opposite because the second house is much more oily, but beats me.

If I recall correctly, when my team had the practice lane for Nationals, I personally felt I was getting a much better reaction when I was throwing straighter down around 7-8 then I was 10 board. More hook, better pin action. Two of the guys agreed with me, but since I was the most inexperienced, my opinion didn't get much weight and the team stuck with the 10 board. They did okay, but I felt we were doing better when we went just a hair outside more. Since I'm bowling by myself on the singles/doubles pattern tonight, I'm going to go with what I wanted to try.

How did you do Greenday? What did you think about the differences in the Team and S/D pattern? billf are you going to be bowling Nationals at all?

[UBowling]

We leave for Reno on Thursday and bowl Friday. We have been practicing on this oil pattern for quite a while now. Our scratch leagues put this pattern down for the last couple of months to give everyone decent practice.

Our two teams have a game plan going in of breaking everything down outside to give us some room to play. We will all be throwing it up 5 to break down the out of bounds as much as we can and then move in once we have a good look. Most of us will be using a solid coverstock, something with good surface and putting our breakpoint around 7-9 board probably. My Storm Reign of Power has been great when I practice on the pattern so we will see if that holds up. We have a practice session Friday morning so we will see how it plays out.

[Greenday]

How did you do Greenday? What did you think about the differences in the Team and S/D pattern? billf are you going to be bowling Nationals at all?

Well, the tournament I was in used the Masters' pattern instead. The Masters pattern is definitely tougher than the Open patterns IMO. It's tough to compare the S/D pattern to the Team pattern for me because when I did the team, it was ten people total bowling on the two lanes. When I did the S/D pattern, it was a side-tournament and it was three of us. Naturally, the team pattern broke down faster. I felt like I had just the tiniest bit more wiggle room on the S/D pattern though.

We leave for Reno on Thursday and bowl Friday. We have been practicing on this oil pattern for quite a while now. Our scratch leagues put this pattern down for the last couple of months to give everyone decent practice.

Our two teams have a game plan going in of breaking everything down outside to give us some room to play. We will all be throwing it up 5 to break down the out of bounds as much as we can and then move in once we have a good look. Most of us will be using a solid coverstock, something with good surface and putting our breakpoint around 7-9 board probably. My Storm Reign of Power has been great when I practice on the pattern so we will see if that holds up. We have a practice session Friday morning so we will see how it plays out.

I feel like that might be a little too far, as I'd rather break down the 7-8 boards, this way I could move just a little inside towards the ten. But it depends on your teams' style. I saw a lot of teams having trouble that bowled on the outside getting their balls to come back.