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.

AMF Bowling Worldwide sold its Australian division of to Macquarie Leisure Trust (later known as Ardent Leisure) in February 2005 as part of AMF's strategy at the time to re-focus on its U.S. bowling business.

[4] In February 2019, TEEG opened its first of many dual branded venues of Zone Bowling and Timezone locations in Westfield Garden City.

[5] TEEG now has 15 dual venue locations which offer both Zone Bowling and Timezone.