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Bowling is a matter of training you muscles, and practicing to repeat the same shot. My kids bowl well because 1) they love the game, b) they practice, a lot,and thirdly, they compete against other good bowlers which demands their best efforts.
Anything over 100 for an occasional bowler is actually rather good. You are knocking some pins down, and converted at least one spare or strike (refererred to as "marks"). In a 148 game, SF had to have made multiple "marks," with some decent follow up shots in order to build that score.
The further up the average chain you get, the more difficult it is to live up to your billing. In order to for Tully to average 201, he had to convert prctically all of his spares, plus throw at least one "double" during the course of virtually every game. Well done!
A cool thing about bowling is, just about everyone can find a way to have fun with it. It's great if you're just trying to kill some beers with a few friends, or, if competition gets your juices flowing, there are high level leagues and tournaments to get involved with. I recommend it to everyone.
And, thanks dlish. If you only knew how lucky I got (and how drunk I got in the aftermath!), it was almost embarassing... almost!
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"Regret can be a harder pill to swallow than failure .With failure you at least know you gave it a chance..." David Howard
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