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tdub36tjt

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What are the hardest houses in the US?
« on: November 29, 2008, 01:34:42 PM »
The reverse to the previous question.  In this area it would have to be Parkway lanes in Trenton, MI. There can often be an ob with no hold in the middle like a reverse block but not as drastic and when they transition you better be ready to move every couple frames.

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Re: What are the hardest houses in the US?
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2008, 10:54:10 PM »
Sounds like Savannah Lanes used to be before they installed the Synthetics this Fall. Outside the 8th board was flooded, if you hit the one board you were a goner(rounded edges), lol. Inside 12 was usually very light and never held.
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Re: What are the hardest houses in the US?
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2008, 08:22:40 AM »
Northeast Ohio:
Geneva Rec Center (long gone).
Kings Lanes (recently gone).

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Re: What are the hardest houses in the US?
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2008, 08:37:34 AM »
tdub are you being serious about Parkway?

I bowled there once, and they were super easy.

I guess it might have just been a day when the shot was different?
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Re: What are the hardest houses in the US?
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2008, 08:45:53 AM »
Crenshaw lanes in Tallahassee.
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tdub36tjt

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Re: What are the hardest houses in the US?
« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2008, 09:46:28 AM »
I have open bowled there and they have been very easy. But in the league I am in the are rough. I don't know if it is pair to pair or what but they are never even close to the same and they get so dry you can play a white dot 15 to 7 which is ridiculous for a 3 game set.

They are installing synthetics right now so that all might change. It seems like 95% of the people in that leagues average drops 10-15 pins. There are weeks it is easier but the transition is never easy especially if you hook the ball.  

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tdub are you being serious about Parkway?

I bowled there once, and they were super easy.

I guess it might have just been a day when the shot was different?
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Re: What are the hardest houses in the US?
« Reply #6 on: November 30, 2008, 10:13:39 AM »
tourny wise, the old Peterson, league and open bowling, probably a little 6 lane basement house by where i live, the Whirl-I-Gig.  They still oil with a mop, have above ground ball returns which you kick every time you throw at a ten pin, but still a really fun place to bowl.  And their pizza is good
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Re: What are the hardest houses in the US?
« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2008, 10:49:02 AM »
AMF Irving in Irving TX. Hard house no matter what they put out there it's tough. Hardly any 700 series there and last time the pros were they struggled bad in a season where every other house they made it look easy.
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Re: What are the hardest houses in the US?
« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2008, 11:24:42 AM »
I gotta say the center in Kingsville Texas little 16 lane house had good league turnout, but for the 3 years i was there i had the  center high average of 181.  There was 5 or 6 regional PBA players that shot there once in a while and all of them thought it was rediculous. The pattern was some  sort of light short oil reverse pattern.  Getting to the hole wasn't too much of  a problem but carry was horrid.  OOB outside of 10 on both sides.  They did a 9 pin no tap thing every friday night.  If you shot 300 during no tap you would get the pot it went up $1 per person bowling for how ever many weeks it took to shoot the next.  I never saw it get shot for under $600.  I shot in 3 other houses and a travel league and still averaged above 200 everywhere else. It was honestly something I had never seen before and doubt ill ever see anything like it again.
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Re: What are the hardest houses in the US?
« Reply #9 on: November 30, 2008, 11:29:00 AM »
Irving's tough.  Lots of things blamed for the cause.  There for a while the lane machine sounded like an old model t.  The lanes over the big open space may be the cause. Sticking your hands in front of the ball return in the summer is like sticking them in front of a jet engine.  The fact they have one set of big double doors and the north wind flys in.  The second set is suppose to be down stairs and AMF just never installed them.  It gets up to be around 100 degrees in the bowlers area in the summer.  Sometimes hotter than that.  I shot 700 in May last year and there wasn't another one until October.  High average for the house was 199.  AMF seems to put money everywhere else except Irving.  With AMF Showplace Euless about 10 minutes away they almost tell you to bowl there instead.  Euless last time I was there was becoming a pit.

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Re: What are the hardest houses in the US?
« Reply #10 on: November 30, 2008, 11:52:11 AM »
Gold Country Lanes in Sutter Creek CA. They only oil their lanes about 3-4 times a week, and that's just on league nights.
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Re: What are the hardest houses in the US?
« Reply #11 on: November 30, 2008, 12:50:27 PM »
Crestview Lanes in Sacramento, Ca is tough. Bad carry alot of time cause of low gutters, but I like a challenge
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Re: What are the hardest houses in the US?
« Reply #12 on: November 30, 2008, 04:08:29 PM »
Oh this is easy for me Buffalo Bill lanes in Sturgis, South Dakota during the summer time. They stop oiling after winter league is over to save money, I was using a plastic house ball with huge holes playing 6 th arrow it was still making it back with no problems.

This is the real definition of a dry house, hard to get dryer than no oil at all for 3 months ever.

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Re: What are the hardest houses in the US?
« Reply #13 on: November 30, 2008, 04:10:54 PM »
In Alabama:

Leland Lanes, Tuscaloosa
Monroe Lanes, Monroeville
AMF River City Bowl, Decatur
Florida Lanes, Mobile

I just realized after typing this out that all four are wood houses, unless River City or Florida have changed recently. Monroe is a 10-lane shoebox with a low ceiling and above-ground returns.

Jess

EDIT: Also add Holiday Bowl in Bessemer/Birmingham, which is a synthetic house.

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Re: What are the hardest houses in the US?
« Reply #14 on: November 30, 2008, 04:26:27 PM »
quote:
I have open bowled there and they have been very easy. But in the league I am in the are rough. I don't know if it is pair to pair or what but they are never even close to the same and they get so dry you can play a white dot 15 to 7 which is ridiculous for a 3 game set.

They are installing synthetics right now so that all might change. It seems like 95% of the people in that leagues average drops 10-15 pins. There are weeks it is easier but the transition is never easy especially if you hook the ball.  

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tdub are you being serious about Parkway?

I bowled there once, and they were super easy.

I guess it might have just been a day when the shot was different?
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