A new operator has been booked in for Collier Park Golf Course (WA)
Collier Park Golf Course.
A range of improvements at Collier Park Golf Course are teed up after the City of South Perth backed appointing a new operator.
The council unanimously backed giving Clublinks Management a lease for up to 21 years once the lease for current operator CourseController ends on March 31, 2024.
Bids for the lease were also received from the Belgravia Health and Leisure Group, BlueFit, Greenspace Management and Ten Golf Group.
Clublinks’ plan for the 27-hole course on Hayman Road in Como includes a two-storey driving range, retail area, food and beverage facilities, function centre, office area, playground and a padel tennis facility.
There are no plans to change any of the three nine-hole courses.
The number of rounds played at Collier Park has surged from 95,908 in 2019-20 to 119,335 in 2022-23, about 80 per cent of which were played by people from outside the City of South Perth, and it added $800,000 to the city’s coffers in 2022-23.
But its facilities, which include mini golf, a clubhouse with a full bar and food service, and a golf proshop that sells and hires out equipment, are considered in need of a refresh.
A council report said while the course had been maintained to a high standard and $2m spent on establishing mini golf, there had been little other investment as the city’s attention had been on the now abandoned Recreation and Aquatic Facility.
It estimated about $15m would need to be spent over the next five years to ensure the course remained a financially viable community asset.
“We are clearly dealing with an organisation (who) know what works, they know what the punter wants and they know how to deliver it,” he said.
