Well this definitely went a different direction than I was intending the thread to go.
The point I was trying to make is that there are a lot of positives in bowling in league. Others have said bowling may go the way of golf. Few leagues and you simply bowl whenever you happen to feel like it.
With bowling leagues you have reserved times. You don’t have to seek out a favorable time as in golf.
With bowling leagues you have rules structured. Few in golf play by strictly by USGA rules. Some play “winter Rules†year round, gimmees, mulligans, etc.
With bowling leagues everyone will have an established handicap and how many pins per game that will be given. In golf many don’t have USGA handicaps and strokes given/taken are negotiated.
With bowling leagues you have a match already arranged. No haggling and negotiating on the first tee. (I’m sure this is Sawbones favorite part
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With bowling leagues you know at least half your group. Your teammates are always the same. When you just show up you don’t know who you will be paired with.
I have always enjoyed the structure of leagues and the knowing I have matches setup for the next 30+ weeks. But I’m a structured, logic driven person.
As with Bob, bowling is my primary passion. I golf during the late spring and summer months as a change of pace but I pretty much put the clubs up in September until April even though there are at least a couple more months of good weather.
Golf is a great game. Much more difficult to master than bowling and I feel it is more honest in showing your true ability. Few golfers delude themselves into thinking they can play with the pro’s when playing on 6000 yard municipal courses.
Sawbones – What you said about the golf boom being over is happening in this area. Local courses are hurting. The paper has been running a story the last week about how the city courses are now loosing money. Ten years ago they had 205,000 rounds played on their 4 city courses. Today they have 185,000 rounds played on 5 city courses. And another local public course just opened and a private course is set to open this fall.
As for the assertion that it is thousands of times easier to shoot 300 than par 72 I disagree. A top golfer can shoot par virtually every time he steps on a course. A bowling pro cannot figure to shoot 300 every time he bowls a game. I would say a round of 63 or 64 on a course would equal a 300. Easy short course would be the THS 300, long tough course the sport condition 300.
