SCOTCH DOUBLES TOURNAMENT

We bowled 6 strikes apiece for a Scotch 300

Sharon and I showed up at Paddock Bowl on Saturday expecting a night of Monte Carlo bowling but there was a change in plan. The Monte Carlo event was called off because Paddock Bowl was hosting a no-tap scotch doubles tournament. Neither of us is very fond of the no-tap format but since we were there, we decided to enter. Quinton and some of the Monte Carlo regulars entered the tournament also.

In the scotch bowling format, the two bowlers alternate turns. Sharon bowled first and if she didn't strike, I had to shoot for the spare. If she did strike, I would shoot the first shot in the next frame. Then if I failed to strike, it would be up to Sharon to convert the spare. One never makes consecutive shots.

This was a four-game tournament with the first two games being no-tap in the scotch doubles format and the last two games being no-tap doubles in regular format.


Sharon and I bowled well. Most of our strikes were the natural kind. We left very few ten-pins on a night we didn't need to hit them. In the second game we bowled a scotch 300 and split the $20 high game prize with another team. In the third game, I bowled a 276 with ten natural strikes, a bucket, and one no-tap strike.



Our scotch no-tap 300 game with nine natural strikes

          01  02  03  04  SER G   AVG

Scotch   215 300          515 2 257.5

Sharon           229 206  435 2 217.5

Mark             276 224  500 2 250.0

Subtotal 215 300 505 430 1450 6 241.7

Hdcp                      117
Total                    1567   261.2

It's a shame it wasn't regular ten-pin bowling because I think we would have averaged over 200 without the no-tap gimmick. In the end, we finished in a tie for second place. We won $90 + $10 for the 300 game. Since we paid in $50 for the entry fee and some raffle tickets, winning back $100 earned us a tidy profit for the night.