Owner/manager of Tenpins & More, Steve Mackie has been involved in the game and business of bowling for 40 years, since first walking in to Sydney, Australia's St. Leonards Bowl shortly after it opened in 1962.

Mackie is chairman of the "Lodger's Tax Advisory Board", part of the Rio Rancho Convention and Visitor's Bureau. He is also president of the "New Mexico Bowling Centers Association" that operates under the auspices of the National Bowling Proprietor's Association of America.

Mackie became a four-time Bowler-of-the-Year in his native country while winning 17 national bowling titles there between 1967 and 1977.

He is a member of three Bowling Halls of Fame and has bowled a total of 22 perfect games of 300 in Australia, New Caledonia (a small French island in the south Pacific Ocean) and the US, both here in the Albuquerque area.

Mackie found niches in the business side of bowling while managing a high-profile 32-lane Center in Sydney before taking on a national role with the corporation, AMF that included creating national and regional televised bowling events.

He moved in to multi-unit operations in Australia before migrating to the US in 1991. He became responsible for the results at more than 130 different Centers throughout the US and ultimately eleven overseas countries through 1998.

In December 1999, Mackie purchased, with partners, the old Fun Lanes, proceeding to breathe "new life" in to the ailing Center. In the past three years, more than $510,000 has been spent on building, lane and equipment upgrades to Tenpins & More.

Perhaps, most importantly though has been the transformation of many customers in to excited league and tournament bowlers as many have grasped opportunities to improve their own game through direct access to professional advice and coaching as well as a myriad of different tournament and league formats.

If anyone in bowling has truly "been there, done that", it is quite possibly Mackie, who has been to more than 500 Bowling Centers in 31 different countries on every continent in the past four decades. During this time, he has racked up more than four million miles of (mostly) air travel, including over one million in his last six years with AMF.