In answer to the original poster.
PBA drillings versus House shot drillings. I understand the question.
Let's start out that most/many house shots have deep crowns and dry to the outside. Ratios of 10(deepest oil in the middle) to 1 shallowest oil occur frequently. These shots create a trough or chute to the pocket for the high rev player where if he has enough revs and a strong ball and drilling he can put his feet deep and fire the initial path of the ball somewhere the middle of the deepest part of the oil out to the dry and create tremendous area to hold the pocket. He can even pull the ball and still make a pth to the pocket.
On this type of pattern strong balls and strong drillings work best for the speed dominate player.
On the pro tour ratios are much less, volumes are much lighter, and outside towards the gutters is often a very slick out of bounds area. The player is often operating in a very confined area to create total swing area and hit to the pocket.
While many players have great versatility, everyone has an A game. Some it is more revs, others it is more speed, others it is up the back others it is around the side for a few variations.
To play on some of the very confined shots of the PBA tour one often has to minimize total hook by combining special drillings with their particular release tendancies. It doesn't make sense to tweak on's release but use a drilling that forces one to cover too many boards of hook than is ideal for the pattern. While others are using the best drilling to fit their ball path into the pattern for the maximum results.
On the converse I have an acquaintance who was tearing it up in league for awhile, up near 240. Decided he wanted to try some regionals and got rid of his strongly drilled balls for the left side. Went to all drillings that were designed for the lighter volumes of the pro tours.
Goodbye to his 240 average and multiple 800s. Now 220 average at home and a 740 at home are an outstanding accomplishment for him.
Everything counts.
Regards,
Luckylefty
