Canberra golfers are calling for clarity amid new speculation Narrabundah's pitch and putt golf course could be downsized and moved across Jerrabomberra Avenue to make way for housing.
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Several sources, including Capital Golf Club members who opposed The Vikings' plans to use part of their course for residential development in 2010, say rumours are rife over the future of the pitch and putt and the Capital clubhouse.
Property developer Sotiria Liangis bought the Capital Public golf course from The Vikings late in 2011 after the club group was refused permission for a residential development there in 2010.
Liangis' Investments Pty Ltd already owned the Canberra International Golf Centre, which includes the ACT's last remaining pitch and putt course, on the other side of Jerrabomberra Avenue.
Mrs Liangis could not be reached for comment.
Sources told Fairfax one option being talked about was to knock down the existing Capital clubhouse and to develop new facilities in the Canberra International Golf Centre building across the road, next to the existing pitch and putt course.
A tunnel under Jerrabomberra Avenue or a footbridge across it would connect the course and clubhouse.
Moving the clubhouse would free up space for a new pitch and putt on the site of the current Capital clubhouse and car park, although it would likely be smaller than the existing 900-metre-long, 18-hole course.
In turn, the original pitch and putt site - on the corner of Jerrabomberra Avenue and Hindmarsh Drive - could then be used for residential development.
Club members said surveyors had already been active at the site.
Jack McManus, a former member of the Capital Golf Club subcommittee formed to assess The Vikings' redevelopment plans, said players wanted to know what was going to happen to the courses.
''We are not anti-development as such and we would welcome any proposal that provided improved facilities for players and possibly even an increase in the maintenance budget,'' he said.
''What we are hoping for is some definite information. We have been told nothing [officially] and the rumours are flying.''
A spokeswoman for development minister Simon Corbell said the ACT government had not received any applications to redevelop the golf course or to rezone the land.
Fairfax was told the 18-hole Capital golf course was safe from redevelopment for the time being. A source said the course was run by Peter Kohlsdorf, who has a five-year lease with a five-year option.
''That means the land can't be used for anything other than an 18-hole golf course until [2021],'' the source said.
Mr Kohlsdorf was introduced to the club members at a meeting on January 24, 2012, when it was revealed it would cost more than $500,000 to relocate the Capital clubhouse facilities to the Canberra International Golf Centre reception centre, and that Mr Kohlsdorf was not prepared to spend that sort of money.
Mrs Liangis initially tried to buy the Capital Golf Club in 2003, soon after the establishment of the Canberra International Golf Centre.
The purchase, for $3.8 million, was overturned by the club's members, who had the right of veto and feared losing the facility to residential development.
Capital was then sold to The Vikings for a reported $4.2 million and, a short time later, was being described as ''unviable'' by the new management.
A subsequent proposal to use at least some of the course for residential infill development was rejected by the then planning minister, Andrew Barr, in 2010.
