I agree that Walter Ray is extremely gifted and a great bowler, but I think he would lose much of his accuracy advantage on a THS.  I just don't think he would win as much as he should.  We have a few pros (not as good as Walter Ray, but good pros) that come back and bowl league here and none of them really flat out dominate like I feel they should.  They should be at least 15 pins per game higher than the best league bowlers.  It's difficult to get that high when league averages are well over 220.  There just isn't that much room left for any mistakes or even bad breaks.

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Great article!

I bowl with a kid on my Sunday night league who has a tremendous amount of physical talent.  He's always in perfect time, he has great balance, and he's strong.

But he carries a 175 average, because all he wants to do is hook the lane.  If he can't ride the gutter and watch the ball come back from there to smash the rack, he's not happy.  A typical game for him is:

 x | 7-2 | x  | x  | 0-/ | 8-0 |  x  |  x  | 4-5 | x-7-2 |

19 | 28  | 48 | 68 | 86  | 94  | 118 | 137 | 146 |  165  |

If this kid tamed his ball down and played a simple little swing shot, he'd easily be the best bowler in the league.  But he won't do that, 'cause it ain't fun.  For him, it is about "how" not about "how many".
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