When the lane patterns were released for the 2015 United States Bowling Congress Open Championships just before the tournament started last March, I wrote in this story that I&rsquo;d bet anyone a Hefeweizen there&rsquo;d be no record high scores.
Not surprisingly, I got no takers. And, as I detailed in this story, the only winning score that was higher in any category for any year since 2005 was Open Championships king Matt McNiel&rsquo;s relatively gigantic 2,226 all-events. (I didn&rsquo;t...

The most interesting change in the patterns for 2016 is their slight asymmetry, which has received attention on social media outweighing the magnitude of the differences left-to-right. And there is a twist not apparent in the basic pattern data.

2016 Open Championships lane patterns offer subtle tweaks to 2015 patterns — here’s what experts say they mean