Qualicum Beach to issue RFPs for Eaglecrest Golf Course reconfiguration
Published 5:35 am Wednesday, December 24, 2025
The Town of Qualicum Beach will issue a Request for Proposals for the reconfiguration of the Eaglecrest Golf Course.
The town is now the official owner of the golf course and surrounding properties that cost $8.5 million to purchase.
Town staff met with members of the golf club and some minor adjustments were recommended to the plan that included safety issues. It will stay as a nine-hole course.
The scope of the construction includes new tee boxes on holes 5, 7, 8, and 9, construction of a new 8th hole, reshaping of the 9th hole fairway, selective tree removal and stump grinding, irrigation modifications for new and re-established holes, construction of a new bridge connecting the 4th hole to the 5th tee.
Council approved the recommendation authorizing staff to issue an RFP at a special meeting on Dec. 17 with consideration of the RFP award to be decided in the first quarter of 2026.
Mayor Teunis Westbroek said acknowledged the safety concerns and cited areas in the course that need to be addressed.
“I think this is great,” he said. “When we first started looking for designers, we got a comment from Jack Nicklaus’s company. You know, they build golf courses all over the place and I think the comment was, ‘what we’re doing nowadays in the States is build nine-hole courses that are considered family-friendly.’”
Westbroek believes the golf course will be a popular place for local residents and families, as well as for other people in the region.
“There was one couple who was playing there the other day when I went for a walk. And they said, ‘we’re from Morningstar.’ All the ladies from Morningstar are going to come here when this opens because we think you don’t have to cross roads. It’s very playable. It’s got a lot of history, a lot of classic staff to it. So, I’m excited about it and I hope working with the new contractor that this will be a great success story.”
Coun. Scott Harrison had some reservations about the plan and whether the reconfiguration plan would be palatable to golfers.
