Reading one of the other post, I got to wondering, how many professional bowlers on tour have shot 900 series? I am sure there may be one or two, but I do not know of any.

This leads to my second question, does this mean that the guys that have shot 900 series are better than all of the professional bowlers on tour?

Luck, skills, a specially walled up shot, or a combination of all three?

If skill and a walled up shot is all it takes, seems to me that some of the pros that bowl local ths should be knocking out 900s on a regular basis.

From what I saw on the video of the guy that shot the most recent 900, did not look like he threw two shots within three boards of each other on the video, but maybe that was just the angle I was looking at.

Any way, are these guys better than the pros, or just lucky.

I hope your joking. That guy got as lucky as the 3 people that won the Powerball. Yeah you still have to hit the pocket but you also have to get lucky and kick all the pins out every time. Like another poster stated the stars were just aligned on that day. I would take the pros everyday and twice on Sunday over anyone that shot a 900.

Dave Bolles shot 900 in a regional and Norm Duke...

Whether it is 900, 800, or 300 the correlation between lots of award scores and the best bowlers has never been as high as the average person would believe.  Many people probably don't remember the name Elvin Mesger.  For many years back in the 60s and 70s Mr Mesger held the record for the most career sanctioned 300 games at 27.  Doesn't sound like many today, but in that era, not Don Carter, Dick Weber, Ray Bluth or any other great bowler from the St Louis area approached that number of 300 games. 

In my own association, the guy who had the most award scores during the 70s was a good bowler, but never won a local scratch tournament during that same era. 

There are indeed a lot of local scratch bowlers who are competitive with the pros, but the ability to perform at a high level in a versatile manner rather than lock in on a persons comfort zone is more indicative of being a great bowler.   

I have the privilege of bowling with a 900 shooter each week.

I am not convinced he is better than the pros but he is quite good.  An example of his particular talents is he recently went 290 300 for an 801 on a reverse block where no one was going to shoot 600 on the pair besides him till one guy lucked into a 230 last game.

900s are a combination great calm bowling, belief, great carry and a combination statistical factors coming together to create this statistically still rare event. 

The difference today over 10 years ago is mostly belief that it can be done by the bowler.  Most of the other conditions have been in place for almost 20 years.  Reactive balls, blended crowned top hats, and big pin carry and lively side walls.

REgards,

Luckylefty