YOUR thoughts on the Ease of Bowling 300 Games

[e-tank]

haha yea i got up to a 297 in feb which would be me bowling for about 4 months consistently. Not saying a 300 is easy but im still a noob and i almost got there

[hammerhead300]

Since I've never thrown one, I don't see them as being easy. You still have to throw 12 strikes in a row which means playing the changing lane conditions. And it's complicated even more if it's in a league where there may be as many as 10 or 12 bowlers on a pair. That being said, I was talking with an old-timer at one of the local lanes and he was showing me a lighter he got in the 70's for throwing a 780 series. He said that during that time, there might have only been three 700s thrown in any particular league over an entire season. If I've never had the (dis)pleasure of bowling on those conditions, can I ever really know the difference?

That's how I feel. I've never even seen anybody throw a 300. The house where I currently bowl has been open for 28 years, and it's never been done there.

I'm on the other side of the fence. It still amazes me to watch guys who bowl on a THS every night roll a high game. Most of the leagues where I bowl only produce four or five 200 games (if that) a night out of 60 bowlers.

[MICHAEL]

That's how I feel. I've never even seen anybody throw a 300. The house where I currently bowl has been open for 28 years, and it's never been done there.

I'm on the other side of the fence. It still amazes me to watch guys who bowl on a THS every night roll a high game. Most of the leagues where I bowl only produce four or five 200 games (if that) a night out of 60 bowlers.

I am on a league with some real GOOD bowlers, and I have seen on league only 4 A guy I can't remember his name at the moment, Chad, Larry, Jason, and now me ... Jason has more 300's them most people have teeth, and that's just this last year!! LOL (Not all sanctioned, but some were),,, And that's just this last year,,, I know he did the 800 a few weeks ago, and that, IMHA, is HUGE!!

[sprocket]

Monday night a guy on the team to the left of us bowled 300 and we spent way more time talking to him about the ball he was using and how it was laid out than talking about how skillful he was. During the 300 we were commenting on what a great reaction he was getting. He not only had area, but the ball hit like a truck. Oh, Storm Tour IQ pearl, long oil pattern, very high track, basic layout, pin above ring. I want one.

[billf]

Here's my take.

Our local center has three 300s this season with two of them by the same bowler. He also has the only 800 series this season. In the entire county association there are only eighteen bowlers averaging over 200. We have old wood lanes the transition super fast. I'm talking so fast that you have to adjust during warm ups!

So a few of us go to another house to practice on synthetic lanes with a fresh THS. Holy smokes that was SOOOOO easy. All I had to do was laydown at 20, aiming at the 10 pin, use as little hand as possible, throw as hard as I could with the Diva and STRIKE. If that is what most house's shots are like, then a 300 would be easy for most bowlers.

This isn't the only center we have gone too with an easy shot like that either. Part of me wants to bowl a league in one of these places just to rack of the perfect games. The other part realizes that these conditions are what makes me a better bowler and a big reason why I average 30 pins higher at tournaments away from my home center.

[ghetto24]

ive bowled on both wooden and synthetic lanes. it really does make a difference

[Hammer]

I have to ask where is this ease part of bowling a 300 game? I have been bowling for 30 years on THS patterns and have never bowled a 300 game. I have bowled a 710 scratch series and a 276 game for a high but never a 300 game. I am sure that if you bowl a lot and have an arsenal of balls that maybe a 300 game would be easy. On league night go to every bowler there and ask if they ever bowled a 300 game and I bet there wouldn't be that many that did it. Posts like this that say it is so easy make it sound like 50% of league bowlers have a 300 game under their belt. There are a lot of league bowlers who feel that bowling a 300 game is an impossibility. So I would say that the number of league bowlers that have bowled a 300 game is not a high %. A lot of THS pattern league bowlers are too busy trying to get their first 200 scratch game.

[ghetto24]

I have to ask where is this ease part of bowling a 300 game? I have been bowling for 30 years on THS patterns and have never bowled a 300 game. I have bowled a 710 scratch series and a 276 game for a high but never a 300 game. I am sure that if you bowl a lot and have an arsenal of balls that maybe a 300 game would be easy. On league night go to every bowler there and ask if they ever bowled a 300 game and I bet there wouldn't be that many that did it. Posts like this that say it is so easy make it sound like 50% of league bowlers have a 300 game under their belt. There are a lot of league bowlers who feel that bowling a 300 game is an impossibility. So I would say that the number of league bowlers that have bowled a 300 game is not a high %. A lot of THS pattern league bowlers are too busy trying to get their first 200 scratch game.

please tell me this comment wasn't serious

[swingset]

I keep saying every time this subject comes up, the scores in this game are irrelevant - except if you value the trinkets and trophies of honor scores and believe they represent something tangible and timeless.

You compete against other bowlers, and perfect games are good in that sense but unless everyone is bowling 300's and no one ever misses, then it's not an issue.

You still have to beat the rest of the league, the other tourney players, or the other pros. If 300 is easier to achieve, big whoop. The guy next to me will be getting better right along with me, throwing the same equipment on the same lanes.

This just reminds me of every sport where nostalgia pronounces the game was "better back when...". When, in truth, all games advance and equipment, skill and conditions tend to make most sports look easier as they go - but again, you still have be the fastest, strongest, hit the longest, leave the fewest strokes, knock down the most pins.

[got_a_300]

The answer to the question of THS's being to easy is as someone
else said yes and no.

Yes you might have an easy shot to get to the pocket but you still
have to knock down 10 pins on every throw and also avoid those
10 and 7 pins let alone those pesky solid 8 and 9 pins to get that
300 game.

So I guess my answer would have to be yes very easy to get to the
pocket but no on it being easy to get that 300 game.

Yes I have over 30+ 300 games under my belt probably closer to 40+
I guess all totaled but the biggest part of them were bowled on the old
wood lanes back when you would have to make some kind of adjustment
every time you got up to throw the ball just too bad they are not all sanctioned.