This is a spare left when two or more pins remain standing, but with a gap between them. The scoring system rewards you by adding in the pins from the next ball into the current frame. A spare is marked on the scoresheet with a "/". If you knock all remaining pins down on the second shot you have made your spare. If you leave one or more pins standing after your first delivery, you get a second chance to knock all the pins down, this is your "spare" shot. In some circumstances this is also called a bicycle, double wood, oneinthedark or tandem. If you leave a spare where one pin is standing directly behind another, the rearmost pin is called the "sleeper". Big tournaments will play many more games and, instead of recording total pinfall, bowlers compare their positions by talking of how many pins over/under par they are, with par usually being 200 (e.g.
#BOWLING STRIKES SERIES#
It is common to use the series as a measure of success. Most leagues will play three-game series. Have only a few perfect games in their career.Īdding up the scores from all the games you have played will give you the total series.
#BOWLING STRIKES PROFESSIONAL#
Even professional bowlers, who play in championships worldwide, When you develop your game so that you can start to string strikes together your score will go up and you will start to approach the 200 or 210 mark, which many have likened to being a "scratch" golfer.Įvery bowlers ambition, is to some day, achieve a perfect game.īy scoring strikes in every frame, the maximum attainable score knock all pins down in two shots, it is called an open frameĬonsistently making all your spares will give you an average in the 180 to 190 range. You can thus throw nine strikes in the first nine frames and, if you get another two in the tenth, the bonus ball means the most strikes you can have in one game is twelve. The tenth frame rewards you with a final bonus ball if you convert your spare (or make two strikes). You have two chances to knock down the ten pins in each frame. It is marked on the scoresheet with an "F".
Putting your foot over the foul-line means you don't get the score for that delivery: on the first delivery you must re-rack the pins. The foul line is drawn across the lane to separate the approach from the start of the lane. The term is believed to be a take-off of "Dutch treat" or going "Dutch" where two people share the cost of a date. Making your spares is the simplest way to raise your average on the way to becoming a scratch/par bowler.ĭutch 200 refers to a game in which strikes and spares are alternated (spare-strike-spare strike etc) for the entire game, which results in a score of 200 exactly. If you make all your spares in the game it is called a clean sheet. A side term "Jersey side" references left-handers and refers to people crossing over from Manhattan to New Jersey.
It originated in New York where people would "cross over" to Brooklyn from Manhattan. This refers to shots that "crosses over" the 1-3 pocket for right-handers and 1-2 for left-handers and produces a strike.
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