Club in Profile – Bullcreek AFA
Ultimate bowler’s paradise With two greens located above an underground parking facility, surrounded by luxury style retirement apartment buildings and with club amenities to rival a five star hotel the Bullcreek AFA Bowling Club may well just be the ultimate bowlers paradise. The club located within the Air Force Association (RAAFA) largest WA retirement village on Bullcreek Drive is currently having its synthetic greens upgraded and has benefitted from a brand new building named Cirrus which cost $32 million dollars to build, it was completed within 18 months in August last year. The village has 397 independent living units on the 28 acre estate and is also home to two residential care facilities with a further 164 beds. The complex in addition to the bowling club also has a full gymnasium with swimming pool and many other active social clubs. The Aviation Heritage Museum which also resides with the estate is also an amazing place to visit and provides a unique insight into • The view to the greens. how far aviation has progressed in a short space of time along with many historical pieces from wartime with a heavy emphasis of the Royal Australia Air Forces involvement. Surprising the bowling club which is located less than 15 minutes from the heart of Perth is one of 24
the smaller clubs in WA with less than 80 active bowling members, they have just one team in Men’s Saturday, Men’s Midweek and Women’s Tuesday Pennant Competitions. What is perhaps not known to many bowlers is that members do not need to be living within the expansive retirement estate of the Air Force Association to be members. Bowls WA Operations Manager Aaron Delaporte toured the new facilities in December last year and was impressed by what he saw. “The facilities provided to the bowlers at Bull Creek would rival the biggest and best clubs anywhere within Australia. For the residents within the estate to be able to walk out your self contained apartment and onto two excellent synthetic greens and the magnificent club house and bar facilities has to be what some bowlers could only dream of. I am genuinely surprised the clubs hasn’t got hundreds of bowlers given what is on offer here.” BowlsWA • Jack Hi • Summer 2021
