John Congdon » bowling tournament http://www.johncongdon.com My life as an IT "Professional" Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:12:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 ABT: Amateur Bowlers Tour http://www.johncongdon.com/abt-amateur-bowlers-tour/ http://www.johncongdon.com/abt-amateur-bowlers-tour/#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2009 01:33:05 +0000 John Congdon http://www.johncongdon.com/abt-amateur-bowlers-tour/ My friend Brian Halstrom and I decided to enter a local ABT tournament this weekend. We bowled the 2:30 squad and the top two in each division auto-cut to the semi-finals. The auto-cut means you may not bowl well enough to beat 80% of the field (1 in 5), but you bowled well enough in that one squad to automatically make it. This is what happened to me :)

Brian of course bowled well enough to make it either way. He did make the auto-cut like I did, but he didn’t need it.

Then Sunday’s Semi-Final happened. Turns out that the wick in the oil machined didn’t engage properly, or something to this effect. So the lanes were very dry in the middle/right side of the lane. It was very easy to send the ball through the beak, or brooklyn.

After all was said and done, my tournament ended there. I was +2 (602 with handicap) for the three games, 489 scratch. It was tough, and I did not do a good job adjusting to the conditions.

I had a lot of fun and plan on entering more tournaments this year. If you haven’t tried a tournament, I would highly recommend giving it a shot. I wish I would have entered them much more when I was younger. Live and learn…

I used a combination of my [bowlingball value="6991"/] and my [bowlingball value="6918"/]. Both great bowling balls.

[bowlingball value="6991,i150l"/][bowlingball value="6918,i150r"/]


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