The Gold Mountain Golf Complex continues to grow.

It is now possible to have a wedding reception or dinner there with great golf views. The new and improved 19th hole at the City of Bremerton-owned course now includes the 10,000-square foot Tucker’s Restaurant and Lounge and a 2,500-square foot banquet area.

Gold Mountain managers knew they wanted to upgrade the facilities more than eight years ago. But they built a second golf course instead. The Olympic course has been the partner of the Cascade course since 1996. That was the last big expansion of Gold Mountain, says golf director Scott Alexander.

“We have needed a new building for quite a long time,” Alexander said, “but there was a high demand for golf. That came first and it was important.”

With that course came a new source of revenue, which in turn funded the $3.5 million cost of the latest expansion. That’s a lot of green fees.

“We’re rated by almost every publication as the No. 1 best golf course in the state, but the roof [of the building] was leaking and falling down,” Alexander said. “It just didn’t fit the facility.”

Work started about a year ago and the facilities opened in December.

“We’re in a brand new building and we burned down the old one,” Alexander said. “We needed to move forward.”

The restaurant is open to the public Wednesday through Friday for dinner and every day for breakfast and lunch. It can seat 175 people. The lounge seats 50 who have a view that includes two lakes and six holes of the Olympic course. And the wedding facility connected by a breezeway can hold about 180 revelers.

According to Alexander, the name Tucker’s does not refer to a person, but to the Australian slang word for food as in, “Let’s dig into the tucker before it gets cold.”.