This makes more sense.

Let new balls being currently being drilled be legal with the new statics and give a couple of years to phase out the weight holes.

And the fun LITERALLY  is about to begin without question.  Start your engines.....

“Task force” means Chad made another uninformed decision.

So the herd complains that the balls they drill "now" will be useless in 2 years. USBC actually makes an adjustment and allows balls drilled "now" to conform to a rule 2 years out, the herd still complains. I've already said this, but bowlers are divas....

Using band-aids on a self inflicted gun shot wound to the foot is a good gesture admittedly.  Honestly I don't care what USBC does any more.

TKK, Maybe you're missing the point or I'm misreading your thought..... The adjustment is a good one, but it was so dang obvious it never should have been missed. They clearly never asked for feedback in the first place. True or false in your opinion?

Let me answer this question with another question. By asking for feedback, are you meaning before or after they made the initial change?

Anyone with some sense here would have sent out something regarding this and a request for feedback to gauge interest in making such a change. That would have been the logical thing to do and when getting the right interest on this, either go ahead with a gradual implementation of all changes and not something they did the first time around.

So IMHO, they should have asked for this feedback well before they made any initial change to begin with, not after the fact.

BL.

 Guys,

 They probably knew it would matter, just not to nearly as many people as it has seemed to. Since there was such a reaction, no harm in altering the timeline a bit to help out the people constantly drilling new stuff. Now, you can just go ahead and drill your new stuff for next season by the forthcoming regulations, and it will already comply when 2020 finally gets here.

 It really isn’t that big of  a deal, and I really fail to see why there was nearly the hue and cry about it as there was, but there was. I’m going to have to either buy, or plug, too myself.

 Three of the four balls I bought last year have holes in them for balance. I will need to plug those holes before 2020, or buy new stuff.

 NOW, I can go ahead and plug them up if I want, but honestly, I’ll probably have 3-4 more before 2020 anyway, as will MOST of everybody else that posts here regularly. Not everybody, but most.

 If for some reason you ARE one of the people throwing an older ball that already has an extra hole in it, you still have until 2020 to either get something new, or plug the hole. And I’m sorry if that is just too much for you to handle. I get it that you were following the rules at the time when you did it, so was I, but everything changes over time, and unfortunately for us, that archaic rule has finally died.

 GOOD RIDDANCE!

I felt it was obvious when taking away "thumb holes" from no thumb bowlers if not being used it should apply to finger holes.  Contacted usbc and they defended their reason not to because it didn't affect ball reaction as much.  Then fast forward years later and the obvious decision was made…..