This weekend, the house i work at hosted a scratch senior tourney, the lefties dominated. The right side was/is ugly, ton of oil on the outside, really dry inside, while the lefties had all kinds of room. Due to the format and low number of entrees, all the bowlers made it to the semi's. The director goes to our mananger and asks for the shot to be worked on to give the right handers a chance in the semis and the finals. The head mechanic is called in, as is the district manager and the machine is worked on, and a differnt shot is run (turned out to be pretty bad, but gave the right handers about 2-3 boards more area.) A right hander ends up winning. Any thoughts?

You would think...the feeling around the workplace is that the machine is not putting out what it says it is...it says that it is running 26 ft. on the left side, 39 in the middle, and 22 on the right, but like i said, the lefties just have all the room in the world, and the righties are fighting for 200 every game. To go back- 2 mondays ago the shot is like it is now, total flood on the right, dry in the middle, wide open on the left no one shoots 6 in my monday night league, shot is just absolutly terrible, last week, last weekend i bowled a tourny at this house, and the same problem, scores were low, and the shot was very similar to what it was this weekend. Monday, the shot is wide open, there are 5 700s in the league, with myself being one of them, ABC guy of the city comes in, runs his reader and says the shot is not leagal because there isn't 3 units on the outside, tuesday, the head mechanic and manager are messing with the shot, then tell the pro shop operator (who bowled this weekend) and myself to bowl on it. Outsides were a little wetter than monday, nothing near the weekend, and still very play and scoreable. Go in wed. to work, and the manager has me bowl on the shot again..no oil anywhere, lofted the left gutter and still crossing over, so they mess with it again thursday, i wasn't there because i bowled league at a differnt house, go in friday during the day again to test the shot (turns out scores were terrible thursday night and 3 teams quit the league), and it was like monday, wide open can't miss. They run it for the leagues friday night, and lanes 1-20 no one can wrinkle the ball, just a total flood, meanwhile, 21-40 people are throwing over the gutter because it was soo dry. I bowled right after the leagues and found the same thing, ton of oil on the low end, nothing on the high. Everyone was baffled to what happend between the shot we bowled on during the day and what was run at night. Yesterday/today shot was like that dreadful monday, just total slop. I've tried everything with every surface prep w/diffent layouts...and it all does the same thing, hook off the hand in the heads, try and push it threw the heads and it never recovers. nasty, but dead easy on the left.