Hey Phonetek, I came back after guessing a 3 yr hiatus.. I know, not that long...
The first thing I noticed were how busy the leagues are at my centre, I later discovered they closed down another centre 20 min away, so we picked up a fair percentage of their bowlers... To my eyes though, I see only a temporary reprieve here.. We have such few juniors/kids bowling leagues... In another 10-20 yrs a lot of leagues bowlers may be calling it a day... The 18-30 demographic doesn't seem interested in bowling (at least in Australia).. not sure in USA or other countries... We also have technology inc phones/Ipad, internet, playstation and bloody social media that directly competes against committing each week to league bowling!!!!
I would be interested in reading about USA's stats here.. I have read that there was once something like 8 million bowling around mid to late 80's, that number was down (according to some posters on other bowling sites) to something like only 1.5 million, and dropping!
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