Author Topic: WOMENS US OPEN TONITE (Read 6853 times)

DON DRAPER · « **on:** July 03, 2012, 11:23:08 AM »

Remember, tonight is the night.........7PM( CDT )......ESPN2

batbowler · « **Reply #16 on:** July 04, 2012, 10:47:20 AM »

The DV8 spare ball is a viz-a-ball and can't be resurfaced unless you want a white ball!! The zombie imagine is just a picture and if you resurface you remove it and it leaves the white ball that it's applied on!! Who want to resurface a plastic ball when it's a $35 ball and easier to drill another. It would cost as much to recondition the lanes than to replace only four lanes!! Not many four lane bowling centers around that want reconditioned synthetic lanes!! Bad idea to have it outside without having some type of walls in place to cut down on the dust/dirt blowing around. At least when they held the PBA at Six Flags, they didn't have to deal with the dust/dirt, just heat!!

Pinbasher209 · « **Reply #17 on:** July 04, 2012, 11:10:31 AM »

lost 1 1/2 hours watching that garbage... I thought I had the wrong tournament, I was looking for the US Women's open and I found the Mark Roth Plastic ball tournament.
The telecast was a joke cutting away in the 3rd frame and coming back in the 7th, at 1st I was upset, but I guess they did us a favor by saving us the pain of watching. Some Major What a Joke.....

batbowler · « **Reply #18 on:** July 04, 2012, 12:06:01 PM »

It was horrible and I really feel bad for the ladies that put so much into a major to have the results determined by of all things, dust/dirt! When you see a plastic ball pick up that strong in the midlane and miss spares that those ladies could have picked up blindfolded on a normal condition, sport or house!!! For them to cut out parts of the matches really did us a favor!!! Congrats to the ladies for still smiling after enduring those conditions!!

Bowling 300 900 · « **Reply #19 on:** July 04, 2012, 04:20:57 PM »

Why would it be poor sportsmanship to throw away the bowling balls after the event was over. The bowling balls were all messed up.

You should see the picture the lane man took of the lino duster cloth after they were done bowling. It's a complete mess.

Bowling 300 900 · « **Reply #20 on:** July 04, 2012, 04:24:27 PM »

There is the lino cloth, now you tell me what you think.

Info from the PBA's lane man and other individuals. - "This is the picture of the duster cloth on the Envoy lane machine - taken by Mark Sabatine, after the Finals of the Women's US Open were completed on the streets of Reno! He said it was so coarse that the lane surfaces were rendered unusable in the future."

Bowling 300 900 · « **Reply #21 on:** July 04, 2012, 04:39:35 PM »

They also had a meeting with the women and took a vote on re-oiling the lanes between matches once it was apparent that there might be some oil vs. outside factor issues.

It became very apparent during the end of the ladies warm up sessions on the lanes that the oil was evaporating at an alarming rate and the lanes were getting very dusty as the winds kicked up.

At this time the women were still able to somewhat get their reactive resin balls down the lane, as what you saw in the beginning of the 1st match.

The women voted NOT to re-oil the lanes and to play the lanes as is.

Thus you have the results of the vote.

Would things of been better with re-oils? Probably.

When the AMF World Cup was in Egypt outside, the tournament re-oiled the lanes after each match.

So there was some type of "history" already with such problems.

kidlost2000 · « **Reply #22 on:** July 04, 2012, 06:36:02 PM »

So seeing the dirt and sand on the lanes that is on the above picture you think running an oil machine over that would have made it better?

My guess it would not oil correctly, damage the oil machine and still end up with really low scores because the shot would not have been anything worth a damn.

Likely what ever jacked up shot would have been relayed because of the conditions on the lanes would still evaporate in a matter of frames not games as we plainly saw. At least when the lanes are that dry you know what the reaction will be. If only bowling could be held indoors.

Maybe next time they can hold the event some where that is below freezing.

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