perception is everything in bowling. Buying a ball is tricky.
if you like a certain are of the lane and that is where you want to play, it's all about pin placement and surface. the urethane probably was not grabbing the oil and they do not jump off the dry. your pearl slid in the oil saving all it's energy for the dryer board and moved to much.
what you may need is a ball set up to make it's move earlier. pin and shell placement can get it into a roll sooner and be smoother off the dry.
it all depends on how much head oil you have and how far the oil goes. you might actually want a low load particle ball so it will grab the oil but give you more of an arc like you wanted from your urethane.
you have to find out if your perception of the lane condition equals what was out there.
you will hear guy complain that there is no oil out there and your ball is skating all the way. is it dry or is oily? it's all about the friction and where you want to see it.
A pearl resin will place most of the friction at the backend of the lane. you may have experience and over-reaction because your pearl read the the lanes as very slick then very dry.
so do you want a ball that hooks less than your urethane or more? just because it's a urethane does mean it won't hook. it does it more evenly than a skid snap ball.
Just to make it tougher on you.
to me it sounds like a shorter oil house shot with clean backends.
there are only a dozen ways to deal with this.
you could drill a ball with a 3" pin up 120 cg. a 4-1/2" pin and 105 deg cg. these will be for control.
a cg axis drill on a symmetrical ball.
then pick a shell. low load particles will arc more and sooner. dull resins can grab very early but give more area.
you may want to grab a solid resin that has a nice adjustable shell so you can polish it or sand it until you get a good reaction.
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