I will be brutally honest with you: I'm not much for pearl balls I've found -- my faves are all solids (and 1 Hybrid). I HATED the Violent Eruption with the first drilling I used (pin up with a hole) because it was the MOST SKID-FLIPpy ball I'd ever thrown (I can't control 90 degree angles very well
). Needless to say I was a bit skeptical with the Vow. I had heard a lot of good talk about the ball from the Tour Boys that used the Vow during the WSOB (yup, every EBI guy was throwing a Vow, even the Real Deal Bill Oniel), as they all tauted that this was MVP of WSOB by a landslide (out-performed even that Gold thing Storm has been selling).
I drilled my Vow with pin in my ring finger and MB close to the thumb with a decent size hole close to the MB.... WOW!! My Vow CERTAINLY WOWS!! It is the smoothest continued motion down lane (that I love from my solids) with out the big flip! It's the cleanest ball through the Heads that I have in my bag, and does not skip-flip at all. I kept mine at OOB surface. It was the ball everyone was watching go down the lane at the PDX Masters last month because it had an amazing recovery and angle to the pocket on the US OPEN pattern laid on top of old Wood Lanes -- I had never successfully played "fall-back" until this ball on this surface with that pattern! The Vow helped me score 100 pins more in the 2nd 6 game black than the 1st block.
My Vow is also really really good on THS -- it blends the Wet-Dry seamlessly!
Jenny Riedy
Columbia 300 Ambassador
