Originally known as AMF BowlingAustralia, originating as the Australian part of the bowling division of American Machine and Foundry. AMF began a joint venture to manufacture pinspotters in Australia in 1959 in view of the growing popularity of ten-pin bowling in the country at the time. By 1964 1,600 bowling lanes existed in Australia, but the popularity of the sport had begun to decline. In 1985 a group of private investors in Richmond, Virginia, United States purchased the bowling division of American Machine and Foundry to form AMF Bowling Companies, Inc.. The company then bought two major Australian bowling chains to revive interest in bowling. AMF Australia expanded from 16 bowling centres to 30 by 1987, and to over 40 by 2004. AMF Bowling Worldwide sold its Australian division of to Macquarie Leisure Trust in February 2005 as part of AMF's strategy at the time to re-focus on its U.S. bowling business. In December 2017, The Entertainment and Education Group announced that they had purchased the bowling and entertainment division of Ardent Leisure in order to merge it with its Timezoneentertainment business, forming a combined entertainment group encompassing Timezone, AMF, Kingpin and Playtime, one of the world's largest family entertainment centre groups. TEEG operates in six countries with over 250 locations. All AMF bowling centres in Australia were rebranded as Zone Bowling. Centres in New Zealand were rebranded Xtreme Entertainment.
Locations
Zone Bowling has 34 locations across Australia, and 2 locations across New Zealand. Australian Capital Territory Zone Bowling Belconnen Zone Bowling Tuggeranong New South Wales Zone Bowling Blacktown Zone Bowling Castle Hill Zone Bowling Dee Why Zone Bowling Illawarra Zone Bowling Liverpool Zone Bowling Penrith Zone Bowling Revesby Zone Bowling Rooty Hill Zone Bowling Southgate Zone Bowling Villawood Victoria Zone Bowling Boronia Zone Bowling Clayton Zone Bowling Forest Hill Zone Bowling Frankston Zone Bowling Highpoint Zone Bowling Keon Park Zone Bowling Moorabbin Zone Bowling Watergardens Queensland Zone Bowling Capalaba Zone Bowling Garden City Zone Bowling Loganholme Zone Bowling Mt Gravatt Zone Bowling Richlands Zone Bowling Robina Western Australia Zone Bowling Cannington Zone Bowling Joondalup Zone Bowling Morley Zone Bowling Rockingham South Australia Zone Bowling Cross Road Zone Bowling Noarlunga Zone Bowling Woodville Tasmania Zone Bowling Moonah
