Leftside,
When I say Jason Couch is lucky, Is when he faces bowlers that throws just like him. The bowler that makes the most spares or blinks wins but if he bowls against a consistent and accurate bowler like Mika K and Chris Barnes he looses. I said he is a good bowler but lacks the consistency because of the way he delivers his shots and cannot make his spares. Look at the scores, strikes, spares and open frames he had against Chris Barnes for the Medford Open. He missed his spares and lost. Look at his game in the 32 round against J.D. Archer. If he had bowled against Wes Malott or Steve Wilson instead of J.D, Archer who would have won. He won 3 championships but on this season tour how many tournaments has he have won. I just wanted to bring up the fact about the type of bowler with their way of bowling that are winning the tournaments. Facts that the person that is starting to bowl should look very carefully and visualize the game frame by frame. Observe every shot and accept who is accomplishing more with less effort and conservative deliveries.
Some bowlers have the notion that by having an impressive hook and speed in their games makes them very accomplished bowlers. They could be but they are not. I went to a tournament for the first time and there was a guy that will bring that ball up and wham, strikes. Everybody was going wow. Then wham splits or spares and he could not make them. He did not made the cut and I miss the cut by 5 pins. If he had made his spares he could have made the cut.
That is all that I was trying to say with the word, Lucky.
