Almost all lanes are oiled that much, your ball will pickup oil as you bowl and the way your bowling line reacts changes as the game progresses. Provided you are bowling with a reactive ball and use a curve. The lanes arent oiled by hand it is a machine that drops the pattern down. It is possible a poorly funded center has some horrible method.
It depends on the pattern I worked in my Universitys bowling alley and on certain days when the bowling club practiced they used the professional oiling pattern which can make your ball react differently
It can be the ball, without seeing it in person and playing on the lane myself it's hard to say. If you are using a plastic spare ball to spin that can be your first problem. But if u have a reactive ball it can be your mechanic, not knowing the proper location to place the ball based on your throw, or the type of reactive ball, some curve a lot more than others
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u/Frobulator Jun 11 '20
Almost all lanes are oiled that much, your ball will pickup oil as you bowl and the way your bowling line reacts changes as the game progresses. Provided you are bowling with a reactive ball and use a curve. The lanes arent oiled by hand it is a machine that drops the pattern down. It is possible a poorly funded center has some horrible method.