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    Quote Originally Posted by boatman37 View Post
    The guy that drilled my Altered Reality is a PBA member. He complained that he can't enter any tournaments now cause he loses his handicap being a PBA member and his average isn't high enough to compete in handicap events and too low to bowl scratch events. We have a few PBA members that bowl in tournaments at our house. Not touring pros, just card holders with about 230 averages. For me, well my average is too low anyway but I think I would want to be at least 225-230 average before I joined. Unless I misunderstood the guy?
    Back in 1980 I was a league bowler. Mark Roth had recently become the rage, and the Columbia Yellow Dot was the ball to have. In those days, you had to carry a sanctioned 210 average to apply for the tour. I never could get my average quite there.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rv driver View Post
    Back in 1980 I was a league bowler. Mark Roth had recently become the rage, and the Columbia Yellow Dot was the ball to have. In those days, you had to carry a sanctioned 210 average to apply for the tour. I never could get my average quite there.
    I got my standing average (had to hold that average for 2 years) there back in 1988, and applied. I was denied, and was never told why. Just sent my check back.
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    Mark was a great guy. I bowled with him around 2002. He was running the center near me (Mark Roth Hall of Fame Lanes) but was only there about 6 months (long story). I bowled league there and ran the Saturday morning youth league. I had no idea how much of an impact Mark had on the game until years later when the internet became more popular.
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