I was looking at all the balls I've liked and have owned, and the ones I really liked for THS were balls with similar cores. The "light bulb" type, or close to it, cores.

Cuda/C 2000
Track Slash
Piranha???
Freeze solid
Fired Up
Natural
Heat
Breeze pearl
Black Pearl Blue Ocean

Besides the ball's shell and the lane surfaces, can a bowler be matched up to a core type? I never heard of this, but it made me wonder if this is possible.

Agreed. See AMF Cobra SE and King Cobra. Same shape, KC is much lower RG and almost double the diff.

Yea, teal rhino immediately came to my mind too.  Light bulb core has always been a nice core.  I think it may be even better today because of the extremely aggressive shells that are being put on the premium balls.  Core shell matchup is too strong on most balls for anything but house shots where anything will work. 

Low RG symmetrical cores ( bulb or otherwise ) matched up with pearl or less aggressive solid shells works better for almost everyone on tourney patterns. 

I bowled on Sydney this past weekend, and my King Cobra was sweet. Too bad I threw it like a jackass lol.

xrayjay,
     I don't think it's you matching up to a specific core, it's more that a symmetircal core is more forgiving and easier to drill. Think back to the old days....all drillers worried about label drill, leverage, etc.. No one measured anyone's PAP. It didn't matter. The balls were more forgiving to drilling mistakes (not that any driller ever makes a mistake...to all the pro shop owners on here ) and more forgiving to operator error. They also didn't make very dynamic moves on the lanes either. I think that is what you are seeing. I know my highest series came throwing the Hy-Road, a symmetrical lightbulb core. In today's world of dynamic cores, you have to have the PAP perfect and the drill matched up to a player's style perfectly, are you wind up with a $200 paperweight. I know most of us do it, but even coping the PAP from an old ball or an old drillsheet, could mean a new ball is drilled incorrectly. If you don't throw the ball the exact same way anymore, due to age, injury, coaching, etc......your PAP may be different now and even a small change can effect how a ball will roll. You almost have to take a PAP measurement everytime you drill a ball. A bit dramtic, probably....but JMHO.

Many balls have had light bulb and mushroom esq cores that were great bowling balls. Many newer cores haven't gone that far away from the idea. Many are just a bit more elongated.

When you really look at core and the general shape they are still bulbs and modified bulbs to get the best reaction with todays covers.

xrayjay,
     I don't think it's you matching up to a specific core, it's more that a symmetircal core is more forgiving and easier to drill. Think back to the old days....all drillers worried about label drill, leverage, etc.. No one measured anyone's PAP. It didn't matter. The balls were more forgiving to drilling mistakes (not that any driller ever makes a mistake...to all the pro shop owners on here ) and more forgiving to operator error. They also didn't make very dynamic moves on the lanes either. I think that is what you are seeing. I know my highest series came throwing the Hy-Road, a symmetrical lightbulb core. In today's world of dynamic cores, you have to have the PAP perfect and the drill matched up to a player's style perfectly, are you wind up with a $200 paperweight. I know most of us do it, but even coping the PAP from an old ball or an old drillsheet, could mean a new ball is drilled incorrectly. If you don't throw the ball the exact same way anymore, due to age, injury, coaching, etc......your PAP may be different now and even a small change can effect how a ball will roll. You almost have to take a PAP measurement everytime you drill a ball. A bit dramtic, probably....but JMHO.

I do remember drillers just punched up label drill and "stack leverage" drills for most everyone. Having pin over bridge seemed exotic back then, well for the house/shop I hung out at.