I was just trying to find out if there are any bowlers from North Texas on this site.  I bowl in watauga on friday nights for the summer.  Also are there any weekly or monthly sweepers in the area?

I live in Arlington and bowl at Sparetime lanes and at Forum in Grand Prairie, check out Forum for your sweeper I think they run it every sat, night @ 7:30. It is a colored pin with brackets and side pots also, then after that there is a crazy eight I believe. Usually there is some pretty stiff competition if you want it and the entry for just the colored pin is $20.00 if you dont. They just resurfaced the lanes a few weeks ago and they were pretty slick outside for the first game to game and a half before they broke down and they went away pretty badly,so pack accordingly if you decide to come out.
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thats cool, I was just about to go over and see otis as I am looking for some lane 1 stuff and he is the only lane 1 dealer I know.

Even though I have taken the summer off, I usually bowl in Plano and Richardson since i live in Plano. jkier01 livesin the area towards Denton as does TBrockette also. Plano Super Bowl has a Saturday sweeper at 6:30pm and regularly runs a LastManStanding and other tourneys put on by Ryan Brodeur. If you don't mind about an hour drive east out 175 to Seven Points, Texas, they run a colorama sweeper on SAturday nights at 8:00pm and regularly have alot of money shots in theform of Strike pots, super strikes, and last time I was there, they has 18 $500 tickets to be drawn and shot for at the end needing 3 strikes for 100% across 3 lanes. Not bad and they usually field a good crowd of competition. Good Luck and hope this helps.
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Hi, sorry to intrude, but I was just curious about something.

Let me introduce myself. I am Aaron and I have lived in North Texas for the past 6 1/2 years. I am wanting to get back into bowling now that I have some spare income on the side to afford to. I would say I am a intermediate bowler as my average is 140 and my highs are in the 150 - 160 range sometimes.

I have taken bowling lessons as part of college PE credit about 2 - 3 years ago. So, I know the form and timing pretty good, and I can get the house balls to hook a little.

The question I want to ask is, which pro shop would y'all recommend going to in the North Texas area? I live closest to Denton and was thinking of going over to J&Ds in the brunswick in Denton this coming week. However, I have no objections to go over near Plano to the super bowl either. Since, it is only an hour drive away.

Why I ask this is, is this will be my first ball, because before I have always used house balls. Now, I am wanting to get back into it and improve further. That is why I am wondering which place y'all would recommend going to for drilling balls purchased off the internet or just for good personal service from the pro shop.

Thanks,
Aaron

Thanks for the reply. I will have to check it out, since it only looks to be about an hour and 45 mins to get there from where I am if I take I35 to loop 820 and around to the lanes. Gas prices are still a killer these days that is for sure.

Though, I will probably check out the plano shop first to see how they are, because they are quite a bit closer.

Edited on 7/4/2008 6:24 PM

Thanks for the suggestion jkiser. I know exactly where that is, because I have passed it several times on my way down there on highway 5. I had totally forgotten about that place.