has anyone bowled on kegels prodigy oil yet ? my house has switched to a 44' blended pattern with prodigy oil. the big advantage is that the oil is supposed to hold up much better and not carrydown. my own assessment is based on 6 games of open play today. i watched the lane man clean and oil the lanes with a phoenix "s" machine and then went to work. my brunswick monster frenzy( freshly wetsanded up to 2,000 grit and 2 full cycles in the lustrekleen machine ) allowed me to play a down and in shot around 8 with a HARD arc on the backend and great carry. after 6 games we went down to the backend of the lane and looked toward the heads and could not see any tracking made by the ball. we couldn't even see any tracking made from a 10 pin shot between the 4th and 5th arrows. i noticed no carrydown or breakdown based on my ball reaction. granted these results are based only on one bowler and do not represent two teams bowling on a pair but i'm impressed with what i saw.

Greg,

no matter what Kegel or LaneDynamx does for the bowling industry. NO OIL IN THIS WORLD WILL "PREVENT" CARRYDOWN! It will never ever ever happen.

This may delay the carrydown process, but it will occur. Does that mean that the backends will stay fresh? I doubt that. Why? Prodigy is a rather high viscoscity oil, there is no way to prevent carrydown. When this actually carries down the lane, I have a feeling that when experiencing carrydown with this kind of oil will be similar to that of our normal offense HV, LV, and other oils.

The companies are slowing down carrydown, but there is nothing they can do to prevent it 100% as we still have the open play bowlers who will push the oil down the lane with their polyester bowling balls.

Just an opinion.
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-Jeremy Vitug
BallReviews.com Burning Sensations Bowling Team

I have bowled two events on it...it did seem to hold up a little better and if you could get locked it, it didn't seem like you had to move every other shot.  I cannot speak to the open play environment.  I do know that at the end of the 3rd block at the open that the problems were not related to carrydown...and I was not too much farther left from where I started on the day I had the fresh.  

Terre haute is not a good event for me to make a comparison because of having reinjured the hand...however, I could play in the evening close to a line that I tried in the morning practice before abandoning on a poor decision.  

Playing where I like to play, it just seemed like the heads did not blow out as quickly as with some of the other conditioners.  But, like Kim pointed out, I am not ready to say that this is the shiznit without some more time on it...

My house owner is planning on putting out Prodigy for us to test out on in the near future, if it didn't already happen this past week.  Judging from my ball reaction this past week, something has changed, so he might have already put out the Prodigy.  We have been using Black Gold, then lately Black Gold HV, which seemed to be working out pretty well.....but the owner is always trying out the latest and greatest oils that hit the market, and he told me 2 weeks ago that he had a sample of Prodigy coming in.  

If this past week was indeed Prodigy, then I can say that I'm not impressed with it.  The lane conditions this past week were extremely over/under, which is uncommon for this particular house.  And, we have been having virtually no carrydown problems with the Black Gold or Black Gold HV, but carrydown did become an issue this past week.  I'll find out for sure on Tuesday whether we are already playing guinea pig, or if last week was just a bad week for me.  If last week was indeed Prodigy, I hope that the owner decides to switch back to the Black Gold HV, because the entire houses' scores were down dramatically last week.

Maybe I'm jumping the gun here, but I'll know for sure Tuesday.