Won my first tournament yesterday

[jab5325]

Well, to be more accurate, my team won. We each got about $100, which was great.

It was a 4-game, 5-man handicap tournament, and our team had just 91 pins added to our 4 game total (other teams had much more).

The last game, we bowled 1189 scratch....so that was quite good. I had a 255 the final game, and one of our anchor had 276.

I had a really, really odd day and started out very slow in some games. I ended up shooting 183, 185, 172, 255.

Game 1:
Was clean with a double going into 6th, and then had a 6-7 that I nearly converted. Next shot I missed way light, and ended up with a 1-5-6-10 (weird) and only got 2 on the spare.

Game 2:
Started extremely slow. Frame 1 I missed a 1-3-7, then a missed 7-pin, then a missed 3-5-8-10, followed by a missed 1-3-6 in the 4th. So, I then pulled my head out of my arse, then had a 4-bagger, followed by a 7-pin conversion in the 9th, with a first ball 10th strike followed by another converted 7-pin.

Game 3:
Started out just as slow. 4-7-10 miss in the first, followed by a 3-pin conversion in the 2nd.....and then the wheels came off. 4-7-8-6-10 and dumped it in the gutter on the spare attempt, followed by a missed 7-pin in the 4th frame. This meant a 38 after 4 frames. Then, another 4-bagger followed by a converted 2-4 in the 9th and a missed 6-9-10 in the 10th.

At this point, I was very frustrated, as we were 6 pins out of first place, and I was the only one not to shoot 200 in game 3 (and the only one without a 200 on the day). I left a lot out there, and again completely lacked focus/consistency on the approach. I went through my mental checklist of adjustments/problems, and determined that I was neglecting the crossover step on my approach.

Game 4:
I was right. Started out with a 4-bagger, followed by a converted 3-6 after a light shot. Then, another 4-bagger, and a 3-5-6 on another light shot in the 10th (I over-compensated for conditions), and then a strike to close out the 255. Not a cheap strike the whole game--all shots were pretty good.

After some struggles, I felt good that I turned things around, and my team won the tournament. It wasn't a big one by any means and was thrown on a THS, but shooting that high of a scratch number in the last game was great, and we ended up winning by a comfortable margin. Overall across all teams, our anchor's 276 was highest, and my 255 was 3rd. There were several in the 230s/240s.

[fortheloveofbowling]

Congratulations to you and your team!

[NewToBowling]

Congrats. Great bowling

[SRB57]

congratulations on your win!!

[HowDoIHookAgain]

Nice job on the win!

[bowl1820]

Congratulations to you and your team!

[Tezza]

Congrats on the win!

[mike_thomas93]

Congrats. Hope you win many more

[Amyers]

Congrats hope you have many more

[Hampe]

Nice job man! 1189 is a heck of a score for a 5 man team.