I speak from experience here as I run sport tournaments on a regular basis...
On a sport shot, the general rule is if you bowl good and execute, you will qualify for match play. If you are a little off, you will be on the bubble, and if you are making a lot of bad shots, you will miss the cut.
On a house shot, there is no general rule, because you can do any one of the three I mentioned above and still qualify for the cash.
Bowling on a house shot is more about creating or finding a 10 board area, and then getting away with poor shots and still striking. Bowling on a sport shot, you want to create as much area as you can, but you still have to be accurate to hit your 2-3 boards that you either created or found. Accuracy is rarely a factor on the THS. And spares are easy on THS too.
Of course there are exceptions to the rules, but this is generally how things are.
The proof is in the pudding here. You look at most THS scratch tournaments, and it's the same few bowlers winning on a regular basis. Those that are great at exploiting the large area and right roll that carries even the mis-hits. In my sport tournaments, I've had 14 different winners in 15 events, because quite frankly, it's hard being the absolute best, even 2 times out of 15! Our sport shot tournaments are finding out who is the best on those given days.
On a side note, I always ask our better bowlers why they think they missed the cut. Rarely does somebody tell me they didn't have the right ball. It's usually "I just didn't execute today". So "matching up" doesn't appear to be the factor on sport shots that it is on PBA patterns.
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Brian
MichiganBowling.com
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