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Surprised it hasn't got a mention here but the mail is that AMF Bowling (the name) will be completely gone from Australia as of 1st May 2018 after more than fifty years. Ardent Leisure's recent sale of AMF Bowling to Timezone and Timezone's refusal to pay for the rights to continue use of the...

Ardent Leisure seem very happy to rake in the coin by charging high prices for everything and offering somewhat stingy "specials" and are always woefully understaffed but won't spend a cent on upkeep of their AMF Bowling Centres. Exactly like their pathetic lack of maintenance at Dream World...

Sponsors League at AMF Moonah in Hobart started in 1963 and is still running 52 years later. It was a 24x5 player league for many years throughout the 1970s and 1980s and fell to 16x5 by 1999 when AMF management decided to scrap the 5-player team concept and cut it back to 4-player teams in...

Social Media Policy is pretty much what stifled/killed debate on anything to do with bowling. The good ol' corporate driven mentality of banning criticism and debate, threatening and bullying those who do so with punitive measures. Standard corporate ideals. "Everything is peachy". PS: Jim, I...

Congratulations go out to veteran Tasmanian champion player, Danny Corbett who registered his maiden 300 game in Centre League at AMF Moonah on March 6th. Corbett, a veteran of numerous Rachuigs for the State and a number of other titles victories rolled his first perfect game after 42 years in...

To the original poster, the highest at AMF Moonah is Norm Green on 228 in Centre League. That is on course to break the all-time record which was a 227 average for a season set by Paul Lucock in Centre League about 4-5 years ago.

I can recall reading somewhere that it was Kent Wagner, former husband of top woman pro, Lisa Wagner that had rolled the full set (290-300). Also too, a certain founder of Totalbowling shot a 294 once, I believe. Greek Church with the three pin on the front eleven.

And was unfortunately, later ruled as illegal and chucked out due to the ball being illegal.

Congratulations Tiny and Sairz on your wins. Matt, I almost had ya! I was hellbent on breaking an 18 year drought at that tournament and was trying like buggery to get the job done, I think I peaked to soon and you bowled sensationally well to win that title. Very well done indeed. How many...

Personally I would say yes, Doreen, they should be as it will lift the standard of our own players as they'll see exactly what it takes to get to the top. I also believe we have some fine players in this country that are more than capable of beating the Internationals and we'll see an...

Burnie Bowl up on the North West coast of Tasmania is another defunct centre. Looked straight out of the early 1970s for years even though it was built in the mid 80's with it's dark, dingey interior and early 70's style carpets and wooden counters. It had wooden lanes and Odin machines and...

I remember walking into that Novotel/RSL last year with another bowler to get a meal wearing jeans and bowling shirt and was refused entry no less on one particular afternoon by some clipboard Nazi on the front door despite having a guest's sign in pass! I actually found them to be quite rude...

That was me Mick, about 1221 or something - it only got worse from there LOL.

Highest game with a plastic was in the high 260's when I was 14 (I got lucky). Shot higher with a rubber houseball at a school PE trip to Mornington in Year 10 (it was a complete fluke) and when I used to work at Moonah I shot 741/3 with a 10lb conventional grip houseball and house shoes, that...

At Devonport in the State Masters about a month or so back, I went through the beak and left a 2-3-6-7 with a Nano. That was the second time I've spliced the 2-3 in Devonport in the last 15 years, although with this one I did slightly move the 2-pin to the left. In league a couple of Sunday...