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AT A GLANCE
Recently listed For Sale
Moonah Links/Sands Torquay
Eagle Ridge GC
Recently Sold
Capital GC
Heritage Golf & Country Club
Links Hope Island
Noosa Springs
Cypress Lakes
Lakelands GC
Moving or Merged
Kingswood (to Peninsula) GC
The Eastern GC
Chirnside Park/Gardiners Run
Horton Park GC
Closed
Capricorn Country Club
Ipswich GC (Receivers)
The new Gardiners Run in Lilydale, Vic
While relocation appears logical, Kelly
warns that it’s an extremely difficult strategy
to implement and one that can easily send a
club into a heavy financial downturn.
“It appears that it’s easy because so many
clubs have done it in the last 10 years,” Kelly
says. “Waverley tried and they’re still trying.
It’s a real challenge to do this. It took us 10
years to get our current site rezoned from
special use to residential and that’s a massive
commitment. If we hadn’t have had a
developer, we would have gone broke doing
it.”
Chirnside Park only needed to sell part
of the land at its Kingswood Drive address
to fund the move to Gardiners Run. It has
retained 11 acres in Chirnside Park, which will
continue to be used to offer members tennis,
at the present stage, maybe that’s an option
you can look at. The six (holes) out, six in. If
you need to play 18, you could play one of
the six again.” •
lawn bowls and a clubhouse with gaming
and a bistro.
Gardiners Run manager Garrick Aird
concedes that partial land sales are
complicated but says they could be a wise
choice for other Melbourne clubs.
“I’ve seen a few courses that have done
that and then they’ve had houses encroach
onto their boundaries and then that
creates boundary issues, then courses
get re-designed and when you re-design
something, it tends to cost a fair bit of
money to redesign a fairway or a green or
a hole. It depends what your model is. I’ve
been a little bit of an advocate for being a
little bit different. If you go back to where
it all started, there was 13, 14, 15-hole golf
courses. With people being very time-poor
New developments
Eastern GC
Black Bull GC
Ocean Dunes GC
Cape Wickham GC
St Andrews Private (Stalled)
Bingara Gorge (NSW)
Kooralbyn (to reopen)
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www.insidegolf.com.au | June 2014
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