Do Lefties have an advantage in Bowling?
While there is no consensus that such an advantage exists, here’s the debate in a BIG nutshell: The surface of a bowling lane is oiled for various reasons, one of which is to provide a “condition” on which to bowl. Second only to a bowler’s skill level, the manner in which lanes are oiled (called the “lane condition” or “oil pattern” or “shot”) greatly determines what type of bowler and his corresponding style most often will prevail. Most of the time, the “shot” will be symmetric with respect to the middle of the lane lengthwise, i.e., the oil pattern from the 20th (middle) board out to each respective gutter will be similar in a mirror-image fashion. Thus it appears that being left-handed is of no advantage over being right-handed, and vice versa. However, there are two things that create an eventual disparity — one, there are more right-handed bowlers (RHB) than left-handed bowlers (LHB) in most situations. Two, the lane oil isn’t static. It migrates as bowling balls roll through i
