Stronger Bowling Competition Can Help You Raise Your Game

By: bowlingball.com Original Publish Date: 10/9/15; Updated: 12/14/2020

Stronger bowling competition can help you raise your game.

If you have been working to improve your game, don’t forget to put your hard work to the test by facing stiff competition.

If you are one of the top tier players in your town, then try to find competition, such as regional or interstate tournaments, which present the best players in the state or in the country, not only around your local area.

Although facing stronger bowling competition offers no immediate guarantee that you will step your game up to the next level, it is a proven step in doing so. Stiff competition present new challenges other than the ones you routinely face at home in leagues or local tournaments.

It is not always easy to adapt to the rigors of bowling with and against a field of strong and capable players where you are not rated at the “top” of the roster as you likely would be at a local level of competition.

Part of the development process of every great player is to bump up the level of competition and face the best talent available.

As you tackle stronger competition than at home and do so often, your comfort zone expands and you learn to pay attention to what you do and not what others do during the pressures you face in these events.

Getting a real-time feel for the pressures of bowling against great players is what every professional bowler has done in order to achieve the level of becoming a champion.

You do not have to establish a goal of being a professional player but finding better levels of competition than you currently face is something you must do if you are truly interested in improving your game skills when bowling under the gun.

If you can, try and find stepping stones leading to a level of player you seek to become.



Once you establish an itinerary of events over a year or more period of time where you will face tough competition at least once a month (if possible), you can then set out to find the time to bowl these events and the corresponding budgeting needed to do so.

You will find a new urgency to master the keys to your existing physical game so your game holds up under the pressures of strong fields and the challenging lane conditions you will surely face.

You will learn to make swift decisions when competing on tough lane conditions when you are in a must-strike situation, when you need a game to make a cut, or when you must win a tight match against a very talented opponent.

There is nothing like jumping into bowling’s harm’s way if you wish to expand your skills and become the player you visualize.

Stronger bowling competition can help you raise your game.