Basically you bowl until all of the bowling pins are knocked down.  In a sense, the scoring is like golf.  The lower your score, the better.  A strike is one(1) point.  A normal spare is two(2) points.  There were a few frames where the women scored three(3) points because of splits (like the dreaded 7-10) and just chopped spares.  A perfect game would be 10, almost accomplished on TV by Carolyn Dorin-Ballard.

This isn’t a new concept, but the PBA put a name to it (Petraglia) to give it a little more appeal.  Johnny Petraglia is a great person, and I am happy that they used his name for this scoring method.

It will be interesting to see if the Johnny Petraglia scoring method catches on and becomes more widely used.