Does anybody else have this problem...

Seems like you need a drink when you are bowling league...
Makes the game less stressfull but after a while you know why you are missing pins and its because of the drinking... Each week I say - No drinking during league to myself but we never make it...  One bad shot sending you over the edge and you have conversation with the bartender. lol

I have a theory on people getting wasted at the bowling alley due to what they have to deal with once they get home from the bowling alley.

Thus why I never want a wife and kids.

Bahaha!

I see it your way, I just would have expected a more conservative approach in the clinical definitions.  There has to be a definition so it its not just opinion vs. opinion. It seems there is no such thing as a problem drinker and it's straight to alcoholic.  I think the "feeling the need" could be a slippery slope.

I never drink while I bowl. I find it causes a lack of concentration. Concentration is something I work on all the time. I do enjoy having drinks and talking to my friends and fellow bowlers afterward, tho!

I will say that one of my friends can easily drink 12 or more beers each night during league. Sometimes it doesn't affect him that much (depending on whether he ate before he bowled) but he has seen his average slowly drop over the last few years and at tournaments on more demanding shots he usually can't come close to his average. So yes, it does affect some.

I guess I must be an exception then. Whenever I drink, I concentrate MORE.
Everyone else suddenly seems on the periphery, and tuned out. Hell I bowled my first 300 game with a serious buzz on!

I was so locked in, after throwing my last strike, I had no clue I was in the 10th frame, and I couldn't figure out why people were congratulating me.

To each his own. It relaxes me.