What do you call an older guy? 85 is old compared to the rest of the people who were born the same year he was probably 85% are already dead. And of those how many can get around or remember where they live.
I have no doubt an elderly guy can average 215-220.Originally Posted by jab5325
My doubt is on the phrase "on any lane/condition"
What do you call an older guy? 85 is old compared to the rest of the people who were born the same year he was probably 85% are already dead. And of those how many can get around or remember where they live.
Where I bowl, they have Senior Leagues on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday 12:30.
We call Tuesday and Thursday the "Old Folks League".
And Wednesday is "Their Parent's League"
Last edited by Mike White; 04-07-2016 at 06:11 PM.
Back to the subject; I talked to my Buddies Summer Doubles league teammate from the last two years tonight. he's so fed up with his bowling this season that he's planning to take the summer off. I may sign up for the summer sport league and drop the winter sport league in the fall.
John
You didn't say which of the three leagues you were bowling in....
Not looking like there will any summer leagues in store for me, having carpal tunnel surgery next week !
Best wishes, Tony--hope it goes well.
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We occasionally have tournaments where I bowl. Guys come in carrying 230-240 averages at " their " house and barely break 600. What's funny is how bowling has changed over the years. People used to bowl where I do because the house was difficult. Now people DON'T bowl there because the house is " too hard ".
I can go to a tournament with my barely over 200 average and kill the place, plus get pins with my handicap. You can watch my league for 3 hours and not see a ten pin carried by a messenger. They just don't happen. From the opening in 1962 until I worked there in 1987, there were 6 300's shot there. The total number of 300's there over 54 years is under 100. Some leagues around us average 100 300's a season.
I'm bowling in the AMF Get your Gear league this summer. Great deal IMO. $22 x 16 weeks = 48 league games, 32 free practice games, and 2 high performance balls.
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Those numbers sound reasonable, assuming you still have to pay for drilling.
High performance balls tend to sell to pro-shops in the range of $120 to $150, with the high range being the newer releases.
That means the manufacturer gets a little less from the distributors.
AMF is probably getting the balls at the distributor rates, now that AMF/Brunswick isn't directly connected to Brunswick ball manufactures.
So maybe $100 to $130 per ball.
22*16 = $352 paid, with no prize fund, $200-$260 of that goes towards the balls.
$90 to $150 goes to lineage.
Again, it sounds reasonable.
Just watch out for how much the pro shop charges for drilling since they aren't making a profit on the balls.
When I was working the pro-shop (at an independent center), someone from the center inquired about idea of a get-a-ball league to compete with local Brunswick's get-a-ball league.
What they didn't realize was at that time Brunswick centers, and Brunswick balls were still in the same company family, which meant the bowling centers could get the balls at the manufactures cost or even less due to being promotional, no manufactures markup, distributor markup, or pro-shop markup.
Based on the centers expectations, I would have to organize who wanted what kind of ball, purchase all of those balls, fit and drill all of those balls, and deliver them to the bowlers at the start of the league.
Then wait until the league concluded to receive compensation, which would only be for the cost of the balls at distributor whole sale. Nothing for my time organizing, acquiring, drilling and delivering.
Needless to say, that idea didn't fly.
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