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New ball surface altering restriction adds wrinkle to Junior Gold Championships

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Thursday, July 20, 2017 11:00 pm
New ball surface altering restriction adds wrinkle to Junior Gold Championships
Entry numbers and advancing player numbers for the 2017 Junior Gold Championships. Photo by United States Bowling Congress.
Note: this story originally posted on Monday, July 17, 2017. With a 5-ball limit, no ball surface altering during competition and multiple lane patterns, designing an arsenal for the Junior Gold Championships presented by the Brands of Ebonite International actually is less complicated than for, say, the Open Championships. You probably want a urethane for short/low volume patterns and possibly spares, and then you simply pick four resin balls with fairly standard drillings that will...