The Villages PBA50 Tour stop latest to show the bastardization of Cheetah
JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: 4/22/2013, 10:00 PM
The PBA Cheetah lane pattern was conceived as a pattern for bad lane surfaces that forced/enabled bowlers to play the less worn outside part of the lane.
Used on those surfaces, it was a great pattern that yielded a wide range of scores depending on many factors, including how bad the surface was and how good the players were.
Somewhere along the way, though, Cheetah got bastardized into a pattern used mostly to generate high scores.
The PBA acknowledges that in its current description of Che...