The hole is legal; the question is "Are the resulting side & top weights legal?"
For PBA players' balls, the max weight hole size used to be 1 3/8". Why it is different from the ABC standards, by a whole 1/8", is a mystery to me.
Excessive top weight would not make it a "blem", short for blemish, but the size of the hole that is required is governed, of course, by how much weight mustbe removed to make it legal; that, in turn, is governed by how far from the center of the grip the driller moved the original CG. Of course, being the maximum size, you could have trouble at the ABC tournament, where, if the officials are feeling particlularly ornery that morning, they could measure it as being marginal or over the limit and reject it. They have been know to weight a ball 3 times and get 3 different weights, side weights, and top weights .... Human error, I guess.
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Edited on 2/16/2004 10:16 AM