I'm a mediocre newbie. From where I am, bowling is in budding stages. We do have small scale local tournaments though. I get my equipment on line from
http://www.BowlingBall.com I must say that those guys are amazing. Specially Dustin Seymour whom I usually interact with. Anyway I ordered and got Path Rising Blue Dark Blue Pearl.
This ball on spec sheet is shown as hook potential 4. But actually it turned out to be a hell lot more ball than this. I got it drilled 5x4x3 PSA layout and
IT IS AWESOME.
I'm so impressed I'm going to order Pathogen as well. Let's see how it plays.
Cheers