I hate synthetic approaches.

My scratch league went to being a travel league when the house it was at shut down in June. Last night we bowled in a house that put down Brunswick Anvilane last year. They also replaced the approaches with the same synthetic surface.

There are areas of the approach that slide about like wood but in some sports it was tacky and others it was slick. You didn’t know what would happen when shooting corner spares.

I gave up on sliding and changed to a sole that would just let me plant. At least then I knew I would stick on every shot and could plan on it.

I’m amazed that synthetic approaches have not been litigated out of existence. And why does a house that already has wood approaches replace them with synthetics when they know this is almost always  problem. At least we only bowl there 4 times in a year.