This is really for the older bowlers but when do you know you are done?

While I still enjoy bowling and will continue to bowl I feel I have lost the ability to bowl good (at least by my standards). I seem to be sliding little by little down hill.

My body hurts; Knees, shoulder, and elbow bother me enough now that I no longer practice much and because of that my consistency has gone down the drain. Each week I miss spares that use to be routine.

My mental game is in the dumpster. I can’t seem to get the focus for every shot that I once had.

The game has changed. The current oil patterns and synthetic surface I’m bowling on gives me a bad ball reaction now making it more difficult to hit the pocket and my carry is not good.

I’m just a hack and will have to resign myself to it.

Goodbye cruel world.