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blacknois

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Willow Creek Classic
« on: May 07, 2009, 01:40:40 PM »
Anyone from the WI/MI/IL area bowl in the willow creek classic in Green Bay?  I'm headed back down there in a few weeks and i'm looking for a new ball to drill up for it.  Im just wondering what everyone is throwing down there.  I'm thinking of something weaker and putting a RICO drill on it.
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blacknois

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Re: Willow Creek Classic
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2009, 12:07:21 AM »
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Re: Willow Creek Classic
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2009, 12:15:57 AM »
When are you bowling?? Fresh oil or second shift??
I've bowled four squads and as far as fresh goes, it wasn't the same twice. Something with a lot of length and backend worked for me, but just like all harder shots, it's about hitting your mark and making your spares. I don't know what ball to recommend as I don't have anything new to help you out with.

Good Luck,

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blacknois

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Re: Willow Creek Classic
« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2009, 12:23:50 AM »
anything older is great too, i have a wide range of balls available to me right now, a lot of stuff at work to be plugged and redrilled.  We usually bowl on a fresh shift and a 2nd shift.  The last time i went earlier this year i wasnt planning on bowling, so i only took 2 balls form the basement, my old X-factor Ace drilled RICO, and a Slate Blue Gargoyle.  I had a decent look with both of them, but i would like one more piece to take with me
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Re: Willow Creek Classic
« Reply #4 on: May 08, 2009, 07:57:25 PM »
I wouldn't drill up anything just for Willow Creek.
That is one screwed up condition.
Are you a lefty or a righty?
Which shift you bowling?
How about your teammates?
This all plays into how you attack the condition.

I've bowled it 5 times so far this year(2dbl shifts and a sgl on the fresh).
Never got comfortable for more than 6 or 7 frames each set.
Shot 3 590's, a 560's and a 550.
Will cash with 3 of the 5 teams.


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blacknois

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Re: Willow Creek Classic
« Reply #5 on: May 08, 2009, 08:51:06 PM »
getting comfortable isn't the hard part, once i get settled in, its only a matter of making my spares, which i have problems with.  i'm a righty, high revs high speed, i can hook it, and i can play pretty straight if i need to. i'm going to be bowling both a fresh and second shift
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Re: Willow Creek Classic
« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2009, 11:15:58 PM »
My best Piece at Willow is my Awesome Finish, drilled pin in Ring finger with the MB out about 3 inchs. makes the backend more controllable  which will be needed.

At willow the usually start hooking and and hook more and more as you bowl, very little recovers outside of 7 and dont pull it or you will pick up a seven pin. I am a righty lots of ball speed and hand also I usually start around 15 at the arrows going out to 10 or somewhere in their from that i just adjust accordingly.
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blacknois

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Re: Willow Creek Classic
« Reply #7 on: May 10, 2009, 11:54:37 PM »
well, i ended up drilling an old Double Helix and polishing the hell out of it, i think it might be the ball i'm looking for. I go down next weekend for the sunday shifts, so we'll see how it works out.

I'll be taking my RICO Ace, Slate Blue Gargoyle, Helix, and i'm debating between my Rising SE drilled for length and backend or my Dark Thunder drilled with a negative pin and polished to the max
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Re: Willow Creek Classic
« Reply #8 on: May 11, 2009, 12:29:10 AM »
Bowled it Sat. Bowl the fresh if you can 2nd shift is torched even when playing 5th arrow it was very hard.  581 first shift with Ogre Particle taking my hand out of it up the boards parallel to gutter starting on 7 and working in with another team that did the same thing.  

2nd shift I tried it all we wound up on a pair that was used poorly on the first shift......ugly.  505 big splits poor spare execution, etc.  

I like this tourney well run by Mike Prokash (sp?) but I have to find something that I can use deep inside 5th arrow and in for 2nd shift.  


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Re: Willow Creek Classic
« Reply #9 on: May 11, 2009, 12:33:25 AM »
one of the real good bowlers i go down with every year has a tropical storm with a weak drilling on it just for the second shift, and this year he's taken close to 2 grand in brackets and lane money in the 2 times he's been down there
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