Hammer Obsession Bowling Ball

The Obsession is Hammer’s heavy oil ball. It goes a little longer than the Redemption Solid, but has more overall hook. Compared to the Obsession Tour, the Obsession had a stronger response to friction. On a typical house shot, I was about 2 to 3 boards left of where I was with the Obsession Tour. I also felt more confident playing a tighter inside line with the regular Obsession as it made the corner in the oil and carried despite my average rev rate. If you are rev-challenged and dealing with medium to heavy oil, this ball would be an excellent addition to your arsenal because of its hook potential.

Hammer Obsession, this is going to be that Big Engine Ball. Currently the strongest ball in the Hammer Line. This ball is the monster among men with a RG of 2.46, Diff of .050 which means it will slice though any heavy oil pattern. I drilled mine 45x4.5x35 same as my Obsession tour. The difference was it would pick up about a foot soon and finish hard on the backend where the tour was just smooth and continuous. This ball will be in both the tournament bag and league bag as the heavy oil ball.

I have not tried a high end performance hammer ball in a while because I was always stuck on the throwback upper-mid performance. I decided to short pin this ball because of the strong numbers, strong cover and being a solid. My first 16 frames in league with this ball were 10 pin, 10 pin, and then the next 14 strikes after making an adjustment. I still ended up with a good series after that but the lanes were breaking down different from normal so I had to work through the transition. I should have changed balls because this ball is strong and needed more oil. I would recommend for heavy oiled patterns, also this ball rolls very strong and very little deflection through the pins.

The Obsession by Hammer is a big, asymmetrical ball that is for heavy oil or longer patterns. On your THS, I found the Obsession is pretty clean up front, starts digging in the mids, and offers a strong change of direction, off the pattern with a continuous motion through the deck.

I have found this to be another great benchmark ball. Smooth and even rolling, demolishing all the pins in its path. Together with the Obsession Tour, these are great pieces to have in your arsenal for medium/medium heavy oil patterns.

Heavy oil? Long patterns? Look no farther then the Hammer Obession. This ball has an aggressive midlane read with strong backend to get thru the heaviest of volumes.

Hammer's all new Obsession is exactly what you need heading into tournament season! This is going to be your ideal heavy oil ball with some versatility as transition starts to happen. With plenty of units, this can be your game block ball, but if the midlane starts to go towards the drier end, the ball may lose energy downlane. I drilled mine 55 x 4 1/2 x 35 at 1000-grit surface, this ball has made me look good so many times! I can't wait for more bowling alleys to open up and to get more good use out of this ball!

This ball is the XXXXXX!!!!!! I love this ball!! I am about 15 games into it and I am averaging about 250 on SPORT Patterns with it! This ball does not quit! You can get extremely far left with it before you see any type of skip or roll out! And even when you do, you can change to the Obsession Tour. I have nothing but good things to say about this ball. Before I threw this asymetric, my fav was the Prism Hybrid. This one may beat that ball out as my favorite asym!

I drilled my Obsession Old School 1/2 side 1/2 finger. In practice out of the box the ball was very aggressive on the backend, but was just a little to much for our house shot. I changed the surface to 3000 and was able to use it all three games in league (659) with some bad adjustments by me but overall a great ball reaction. If you need a ball for heavy oil this should be the first thing out of your bag. J. Dudley Bowlers Discount Pro Shop "This review is my opinion and does not necessarily reflect that of Bowlers Discount Pro Shop.”