Mounts Bowling

Today I spent a significant amount of time scouting the USBC Nationals 2010 Open Championships oil pattern.  I don't bowl the team event until 8:30pm tonight so I figured I'd look at the oil pattern (see pic below), scout out my thoughts on the oil pattern (see other pic below), and then check out what bowlers were actually doing on the Open Championships Oil Pattern.

The USBC Nationals oil pattern as always is very challenging but not brutal, in my opinion.  It simply forces you to make shots... and if you  play it in the right spot with the right ball you should have a very small margin of error, which is what I'm trying to figure out how to find.

USBC Open Championships 2010 Oil Pattern

Thoughts On How To Play The USBC Open 2010 Oil Pattern
You can see from the pic below I feel (having not yet bowled on this pattern) that the best shot will be 6 at the arrows while never crossing outside of 5 - or - hitting around 13 at the arrows targeting between 8-11 at 45 feet depending on ball choice and foot position.

Anyway, having made these guesses I figured checking out what people who were actually doing well wer actually doing and found many to be laying down around 20, hitting the third arrow and hitting around 10 at 45 feet.  Then again many of these people doing this were in the singles block which would have been games 7-9.  I think this may be a great shot for when the lanes break down.  For fresh oil however I'm still going with my gut.

In a soon to be published post I'll show some video of the people who were doing good on the lanes earlier in the same day I bowled.

Also, in case you missed my last preview posts, you can check out my post on me:

• Leaving for the USBC Open Championships and me
• Arriving in Reno after a wild drive.

Posted by Brian at 4:27 PM