When we chose Mike Flanagan’s 44-foot InsideBowling.com pattern from 2014 and the 34-foot World Bowling Stockholm pattern as the lane patterns for this year’s Riggs Classic, I anticipated scores would be fairly high.
The IB.com pattern had yielded fairly good scores for that tournament and Stockholman looked fairly friendly from a far outside line.
But they both were very difficult for the tournament at Badger Bowl on Saturday, playing very different pair to pair, which...