Mandurah Country Club

Mandurah Country Club was officially established in 1960, with office bearers and committee members being elected at the first meeting of the Club on 9 March 1960. At that time Mandurah was a small fishing and farming village surrounded by large tracts of privately held farmland. The town itself had very little publicly owned land.

To raise capital for the new club, Debentures were issued at ten pounds for men and five pounds for women. By July 1960, seventy five men and seventy one women held Debentures which entitled them to be Foundation Members. A significant break with tradition at that time was that women were admitted to the Club as full members, rather than Associates.

The course was constructed on 100 acres of land that came to the Council in the following manner. 50 acres was purchased by the Club from the Sutton brothers. Under an agreement with Council the remaining 50 acres was set aside in lieu of future public open space requirements under the Town Planning Act against future subdivision of land owned by the Sutton brothers at Halls Head. The two parcels of land were duly surveyed from the Sutton brothers’ Title and transferred to the Council.