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I would say the 7-10 split.
I've only seen it done on TV once, where you see highlites of a hole in one made on TV a lot more. Not to mention the "hole in one" lists in your local sports section.
Your thoughts?
Gotta go with the 7-10 split here. Ive nailed it ONCE, by accident. Threw the ball towards the 10 pin, went in the gutter and bounced out a little bit and chucked the 10 pin all the way over to the 7 pin in the air and took it out. I still talk about that to this day, happened in 1998 at Fox Bowl in Wheaton, IL (during Cosmic Bowling no less). WOOT!
Gotta go with the 7-10 split here. Ive nailed it ONCE, by accident. Threw the ball towards the 10 pin, went in the gutter and bounced out a little bit and chucked the 10 pin all the way over to the 7 pin in the air and took it out.WOOT!
Sorry to say, but that would have been disallowed in tournament play. But, hey, with your family and/or friends? Good all the way!
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Originally Posted by Patsfan20
Made the 7-10 twice, hole in one has to be tougher! Bowling has alot more luck than golf.
How so? I read on Wiki, that really the only way to make the 7-10 is to have one of the pins bounce in the back so hard, that it hits the other.
Is that what happened?
...the only way to make the 7-10 is to have one of the pins bounce in the back so hard, that it hits the other.
That's pretty much it!
I've bowled and golfed my fair share, and I'm going to say the hole-in-one. Mainly because the 7-10 can be aided by someone moving a curtain. I've seen two 7-10 pick-ups in one night due to some illegal curtain positioning. There isn't much that can illegally aid a hole-in-one.
I've never done either BTW. The closet I've gotten to either is a tee shot 2' from the cup and picking up the 4-6 split.
I have done both, a hole in one on a golf course, and the 7-10 spilt on my lane at home. I have found that the 7-10 split is easiest to convert on Brunswick a-2's where the pin hits the shaker board and pops back out to take out the other. On an AMF pinspotter you have to hit the pin hard enough to fly up to the cushion plank and curtain, then down to the pin. I would say each shot is 98% luck. A hole-in-one is more skill because luck will not get you on the green. The luck there is getting from the green to the cup.
Who is voting for hole-in-ones being tougher? I see them all the time during golf news. You dont see 7-10 pickups hardly ever.
That would have to be because there are far more cameras on golfers than bowlers. If there were a camera on all the games bowled by the regional and pro players, you would see alot more 7-10 pick ups. Hole in one is much harder to do. It takes a good amount of skill to knock it in the hole on one shot, than to just launch a ball down a lane and bounce a pin into another. I'd give back both 7-10 shots for one hole in one anyday......I mean its only a spare.
7-10 split is psychologically a nightmare because you've already screwed up your first shot.
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I see them all the time during golf news. You dont see 7-10 pickups hardly ever.
