I had my first experience bowling on the 2012 United States Bowling Congress Open Championships pattern on Sunday at the Greater Iowa Bowling Association tournament at Cadillac Lanes in Waterloo, Iowa, and I feel a little closer to knowing what we want to do in Baton Rouge.
However, the pattern almost certainly played softer than what we'll see in Baton Rouge and I'm attributing that to "house memory" — leftover oil in the middle of the lane from Cadillac's house shot that wasn't...