I bowled a 300 this week Monday......

[Hammer]

The last day of bowling our league bowled a game called nine pin tap. If you get nine pins down on your first ball it counts as a strike. So I ended up have six actual strikes and six game strikes. I know most everyone here will say that is easy to do. I have been bowling for 42 years and I don't always get nine pins down on the first ball. Sometimes you have one of those games were you get every combination of pins still standing for you. At least I didn't cave at the end of the game. I really wanted to accomplish the game for that 300. It was exciting and my game was announced on the speaker system and my league members clapped for me. I am glad I was able to do it.

[boatman37]

Great job!

I bowled 3 no tap tournaments last year and barely even bowled my normal average...lol. There were very few 300's in those 3 tournaments. My first tournament I bowled 564, then a 711 then a 651. My highest game was a 268

[J Anderson]

The last day of bowling our league bowled a game called nine pin tap. If you get nine pins down on your first ball it counts as a strike. So I ended up have six actual strikes and six game strikes. I know most everyone here will say that is easy to do. I have been bowling for 42 years and I don't always get nine pins down on the first ball. Sometimes you have one of those games were you get every combination of pins still standing for you. At least I didn't cave at the end of the game. I really wanted to accomplish the game for that 300. It was exciting and my game was announced on the speaker system and my league members clapped for me. I am glad I was able to do it.

Nice bowling!

I tried a No Tap tournament several years ago and in three games I had absolutely no nine counts on the first ball. Al my strikes were real strikes, everything else was a multi-pin spare attempt.

Earlier this month there was a No Tap Doubles tournament at our local center and I was asked to bowl in it by someone that I will be bowling league with this summer. This time I did get some no tap strikes. Almost all of them were lousy shots that should have been buckets or big splits but pins kept falling over leaving only one standing.

[Aslan]

Good job!

I'm not a huge fan of no-tap tournaments. I've found that its usually just a gimmick by the center to get the same income while lowering the amount of time you're on the lanes. A standard tournament/sweeper kinda night takes anywhere from 3 hours to the better part of a day (depending on how many bowlers, teams, etc...). But, if you change the format to no-tap...you'll could be out of there in half the time.

That being said...I've come around a bit to the 300s in no tap still being tough to get. I usually bowl a "no-tap 300" 2-3 times during a standard fall season. But I almost always have at least one frame where I have a 8 / or 6 /. Once lanes start transitioning, you could get lucky and leave a single 4-pin or 9-pin...but I'm usually not that luck and leave a 6-10, 4-7, or a split of some kind.

Case in point, my BEST series this fall was a 693 back in mid-March. First game I had all strikes, 2 9 /s, and a 7 /. Second game I had 5 strikes, 5 9-s or 9 /s, but I also had a 8 / and a 7 count on the last ball. Third game I had 8 strikes, 2 9 /s, and a 8 /. So, my point is...even though I had two clean games and nearly a 700-series, I still couldn't get a no-tap 300.