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Is Kelly Kulick one of the top two bowlers today.
« on: May 18, 2010, 10:32:12 AM »
WRW is definitely the best right now. Thought about this and have concluded that based on her performance, Kulick is on her game, day in and day out, to where she is as good as most of the men on tour right now. My assessment is based on performance over the last several months. Not saying she is better overall, but she certainly is better than most if we just look at the last six months.

Someone jump in and tell me I am wrong.


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Re: Is Kelly Kulick one of the top two bowlers today.
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2010, 06:46:55 PM »
She is in the top ten, that's for sure!
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Re: Is Kelly Kulick one of the top two bowlers today.
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2010, 06:50:55 PM »
Your wrong.

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Re: Is Kelly Kulick one of the top two bowlers today.
« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2010, 06:53:46 PM »
When she had an exemption she couldn't keep it.

The full field events that she bowled with the men she struggled to qualify.

Didn't even try the Masters, don't remember the US Open.

She is the best woman out there now by a long shot.

At best I would put her in the top 30 week end and week out on tour.

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Re: Is Kelly Kulick one of the top two bowlers today.
« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2010, 07:15:16 PM »
I dont want to say she is the best but she has definitely jumped a few spots in the pecking order. She stills seems to struggle at times when I think she should be shutting out opponents. Full judgement, I feel, will come next season

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Re: Is Kelly Kulick one of the top two bowlers today.
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2010, 01:24:31 AM »
She has had her share of luck with missy getting the 7 10 and then her 10 pin falling in the match with cdb

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Re: Is Kelly Kulick one of the top two bowlers today.
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2010, 09:44:03 AM »
I truthfully think she is the hottest on tour right now.  Sure she had some serious luck fall in her favor.  However, when you're hot those things tend to happen.  I don't know if she'll repeat half of what she's done this upcoming year, but I expect ratings to be very high based on the potential that she could.
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Re: Is Kelly Kulick one of the top two bowlers today.
« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2010, 12:02:48 PM »
Luck works both ways and generally will balance out over time.

Right now, it seems to me that Kulick is on a streak of good bowling and good results. I don't recall seeing any female bowler consistently bowling like this in a while, if at all. I think that WRW has outperformed her this year. WM did last year. But I don't think that any of the other male bowlers are throwing the ball as good as Kulick is right now.
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Re: Is Kelly Kulick one of the top two bowlers today.
« Reply #8 on: May 19, 2010, 02:00:59 PM »
cc,

FWIW I'm inclined to side with pinbuster.
While I like Kelly and the way she throws the ball and other things about her game, this may have been her "Year of years". In the past, she has only shown glimmers of the things she seems to be capable of, but you can say that of manny people, both male and female. This year she has put together performance, luck and bad luck of opponents in a bizarre set of circumstances, to say the least.

Yes, several women have bowled much better than she has, over extended years, including Carolyn Dorin-Ballard, Wendy MacPherson, Carol Gianotti, and Lisa Wagner.

The only tournament that doesn't seem to fit in either the She's-too-good or she's-just-not-that-good categories is the PBA Tournament of Champions. Like many have said before, it takes skill and luck to do that well in this special tourney. In this one, she rode a special level of skill, determination, mental focus and grit to the win. There may never be another tournament like that, EVER.

Only the next few years will determine whether this year was her coming into her own, or just a special set of circumstances, never to be repeated. Either way, she has earned her way into the bowling history books.

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