Low Ball Bowling Rules

Low Ball is a game used as a practice method for the ULL Bowling Team. The object of the game is to get the lowest score. The purpose of Low Ball is to practice on your 7 and 10 pins and to practice focusing on a specific target. You want to get the lowest score, but there is a catch. Here are the rules for Low Ball:

• 10 frame game
• Ball must hit at least one pin
• Every gutter ball or zero(0) count = +10 to final score
• Lowest score wins
  

In Low Ball, bowling strikes and spares are scored exactly the same way you would score a strike or spare in a regular game of bowling. At least one pin needs to be knocked down. A perfect game in low ball is a twenty(20). Meaning that one pin is knocked over on each of the two balls per frame in the score. To get the lowest possible score is to aim for the 7 and 10 pin each frame. If you knock down 4 pins on your first ball, you want to try to hit only one of the remaining six pins down. If you knock down 6 pins on your first ball, you want to try to hit only one of the remaining 4 pins and so on. A gutter ball will be recorded as a strike the first time it happens (if it happens). The second gutter ball will score as a spare, this means high points, but high points are not good. You've got to knock or topple over at least one of the pins to get a low score. Therefore, this version of the game is quite a challenge. Nonetheless, as you can easily gather from the objective, it requires a completely different kind of technique.