If you are bowling with a house bowling ball, and not hooking it extensively you would have done just as well on any lane. The lane did not do it for you. The b

If you are bowling with a house bowling ball, and not hooking it extensively you would have done just as well on any lane. The lane did not do it for you. The balls used by league bowlers are highly reactive and they generate spin in the oil. Once they hit that dry part on the outside they fly into the pocket for strikes. If you came off the street, picked up a ball of the rack, and bowled a great game it was all you.