Seems that it is very true. Surface dictates everything on a house shot.

No joke. I want to roll one set on this pattern. I think it will show just
 how fortunate I am to bowl on a 10-1 house shot every week.

One small thing to note, is that on brand new lanes, this is true.  If you were to put the US Open pattern on older lanes, where thousands of bowlers have played the track, there will be more friction in the track area of the lane surface, and that can give you a very small amount of miss area as well.

If you want to try a "U. S. Open" type condition and are bowling in Reno, give the BTM a shot. Usually the pattern they put down is pretty close to it.

Its these types of patterns that teach you what the important part of the lane to watch is. When you control the midlane, it becomes much easier... well, as easier as it gets on that pattern.

Modern balls can turn any condition easy if the pattern is attacked correctly, because the balls burn so much oil up as a track is estblished.

I bolwed on a 50 foot sport pattern recently against a bunch of seniors.  Scores were super high, because everyone started out playing right up second arrow, and in no time we had hold area at 15 board and some out angle.  I talked to a very good young guy about this later, and he joked that it was a good thing the kids werent playing on it because they would have tried to open them up inside right out of the box and blown up the pattern for everyone.