How To Hook A Bowling Ball
"The Short Bowling Hook". When the ball either fails to hook enough or has been thrown out too far, the bowler gets a 1-2-4-7-9 leave.
This spare can be missed very easily, as a glance at the pin setup will show.
The safest way to play this leave is to shoot from the right-hand side for the 1-3 pocket, making the ball carry the 9-pin. If the ball is working properly, it will strike the 1-pin on the right-hand side, and the 1-2-4-7 will fall like a picket fence, the ball continuing on through to carry off the 9-pin.
It is best to gamble on making it in this fashion rather than to attempt to drive the 1-pin into the 9-pin, because the ball is larger than the pin and therefore offers a better chance of carrying the 9-pin.
The 1-2-4-7-9 conversion is open to argument, but most experts play it in the fashion I describe.
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