I've been bowling in an AMF house in Raleigh NC on Wednesday night league for the last 6 years. The manager of the house called me today to advise that line fees would be $9 and will increase in November (when new scoring system is installed) to $9.35.

Is this the going rate for leagues?

I always said that things like this is what's killing bowling .. I'm thinking seriously of cutting down my 4 leagues per week this year!

ON EDIT! Cutting down on leagues will certainly cut down the number of balls I buy!
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Edited on 8/16/2007 8:33 PM

I feel very privlidged to bowl where I do just seeing some of the prices some of you have to pay! here is a list of my leagues and cost.

Wed-PBA experience $20.00
Thur-Mixed 4(Wife too!) $13.00ea
Fri-Mixed 3(Wife too! $10.00ea
Sun-practice $1.00 per game 6:00am to 11:00am

We are very lucky because we have at least 11 houses with in a 20 mile radius of us here in Las Vegas,NV so there is alot of compition for bowlers and it keeps the prices down. In about a year frome now we will have a brand new house only 2 miles from us! Of course those prices are only good as long as we stay off the one arm bandits as we come and go from bowling nights. All our leagues are in the casinos.

Just had a league end last night where we paid $18 per week with $13.50 going to lineage. I think its ridiculous. Our prize fund was terrible. You would think if you finished in first you would at least get your money back. My duo ended up 4th but man I definitely will be looking for elsewhere to bowl next summer.


On edit, for our winter league we pay $20.00 with 11.00 going to lineage

Edited on 8/17/2007 8:12 PM

rates for fall league in my house is $9.80 for 28 weeks, $9.30 for 30 weeks, or $8.80 for 32 weeks

the big money league decided to go to a 28 week season last year, which pissed me off, hopefully we will go back to 32 weeks this year, but then we will probably have quite a few quit


then the trophy league i bowl in does 32 weeks
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Wow...I wasn't even close to my estimate of what the house is charging for lineage in the fall. I figured that it would be somewhere in the $9 range and tonight at the league meeting I found out that we're paying $10.90 per week for lineage. We pay $16 per week and only $4.80 goes to the prize fund....lame! Heck...it only costs $2.75 per game to open bowl during the day so I'm trying to figure out where the $3.65 per game comes from???

I think you might be misunderstanding.  We are discussing just the lineage that goes to the house from the weekly bowling fees.  You might pay $9/night for lineage, but your total league fees with sec fee and prize fund might be $15 to $20 per week.  

Erin