Lots of opportunity for urethane on house shots. However as the previous poster said, you are giving up way too much carry to effectively compete on tournament patterns of any length padtvabout 38 feet.
I quit most of my "serious" bowling several years ago.
My job changed three years ago to a graveyard shift Sun-Thurs schedule also, so I only bowl a recreational league once a week anymore. In essence, I have become the quintessential "house hack, lol.
Urethane works much/most of the time where I bowl IF you play it correctly, which many modern players do not do. I grew up with that type motion and laneplay, so it makes sense to me. As long as they don't flood them, or the machine doesn't malfunction, I usually have a good shot out around the eighth board to the first arrow, even though the shot is supposed to be a 40ft long pattern. Depends on the backends.
There is one drawback though, the people who try to accuse me of messing up the shot by using urethane. I'm averaging well over 200, they're averaging 175-180, yet they tell me I'm only doing it to mess them up?
Not saying that it might not be altering the shot a bit, but I'm way outside of their line and beating them much of the time, so I am not just throwing it to "mess them up". I actually prefer the more stable reaction I get.
The challenge for me is to get it off my hand well enough to get it to read the pattern, "hit", and carry.
I like that challenge most of the time.