Mandurah Country Club is situated within the coastal suburb of Halls Head, which is an island that lies immediately west of Mandurah's central area. It’s a largely residential district, containing several canal estates that were developed since the golf club opened in the early 1960s.
The course was built on a 100-acre tract, with the “outside nine” ready for play on 13th August 1961. The “inside nine” was finished three years later. Murray Dawson, a retired farmer who designed a few other courses in the region, laid out the eighteen holes.
Within a couple of years of the course opening, the original sand greens were replaced with Seaside Bent grass then a practice fairway was established in 1972. Between 1995 and 2001, Greg Simmonds oversaw the conversion of all fairways from a mix of oats, New Zealand clover and Bermuda couch to Santa Ana couch.
During that same period, more than forty fairway and greenside bunkers were added and most of the greens replaced. The only significant course modification in recent times is the 1st hole changing from a par four to a par three.
