Bowling History

Bowling becomes one of favorite fun activity to do for all people. You can play it with your family or friend. Or, you also can play it with your team and join the bowling tournament. Many people spend their weekend with playing bowling. It’s fun and easy to do. But, to be professional bowling player, there’re many techniques that you need to master. However, if you just master the basic, you can still have fun.

The Bowling itself can be said as the oldest sport even created. There’s no solid proof, where or when bowling was created. But, from British Anthropologist Sir Flinders Petrie and his team research on some site in Egypt. He found some proofs in small child’s grave that show this sport comes from Stone Age. However, the actual modern bowling sport was created in England by King Edward III in 1366. And later, King Henry VIII makes this game become more and more popular. This game also become special game that only played by noble and high social class. This game also showed someone social class and nobility. However, there’s a time when this games was banned because of gambling problem. Connecticut is one of area that banned this game.

But, the bowling game that we can found today, where it use automatic pin spotter was invented in 1945. From that time, bowling becomes more and more popular and today, this sport is played by most of people in this country. This game also become industry and can be enjoyed in more than ninety countries worldwide.