Based on 32 lanes, each bowling center here has probably 2,500 league bowlers in the winter season of 32 weeks. Each bowler bowling roughly 100 league games per season. In the shortened summer season, that number probably drops to 1,500 bowlers for 12 weeks, equalling 36 games per season. These guestimates would bring each centers league lineage to 300,000 per year times two centers for a total of 600,000 league games bowled per year.
Because the centers are busy, open and tournament bowling is at a minimum compared to league play. Let's give each center 100,000 lines per year of open and league play. That's almost 1,000 lines per week, which is very generous. This gives the two bowling centers a total of 800,000 lines per year bowled. Which by industry standards is very good. BUT, that number falls way way short of the 2.9 million rounds of golf played each year in The Villages. In my humble opinion, bowling is a distant second to golf.
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