About a week and a half ago I drilled a Deep Purple for one of our best bowlers. He wanted it primarily for local tournaments on more oil than our THS, I layed it out 45*/3.5"/45*. He threw it about one game after we drilled it, then tried it in league last Friday because he had a tournament Saturday and wanted a little history with it. He shot 300 the first game and 246 the second game, then the shot dried out (he admitted he should have changed balls) and shot 204 the last game. He averaged over 230 in the tournament, even with leaving quite a few single pins, but missed the cut by 8 pins - scores were very high. He's happy!! -- JohnP