i just had the thought and i assume it's ignorant and i haven't looked into yet, but why not share...
so ten pin bowling is a thing {a sport?}.
i am assuming there is professional bowling. i'm aware that people play amateurly. so yeah whatever, it just doesn't seem that hard. i'm not great at bowling but i've bowled some strikes and stuff, i think most people have. i have gone bowling less than twenty times in my life i would say}. i've seen random people, like people that were in my school class when we did bowling or my brother for example, who also don't bowl but are a lot better than i am and don't find it that hard to get strikes most of the time/often. they don't play, they don't practice, they just turn up and do that. bowling just doesn't seem that hard. fun, but not hard, which is totally fine and cool and great and i'm not trying to fuck with it.
but if you actually practiced bowling you'd obviously be considerably better than the randoms i know, who to my mind are quite good at it. so like, how good can you be? is professional bowling just the first to make a mistake loses? is amateur bowling kind of the same? am i way off?
sorry i had to write so much to get my point across, i'm not sure if it was necessary.