Seletar club members could pay top-up of less than $10k

Following an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) yesterday that lasted 41/2 hours, Seletar Country Club members will likely each pay less than the $10,000 fee originally proposed by the club to extend the land lease of its golf course and upgrade its other facilities.

Tokyo 2020 golf venue votes to admit women members

REUTERS: The club scheduled to hold the 2020 Tokyo Olympics golf events voted to admit women as full members on Monday, scrapping an all-male policy that had been heavily criticised and put its hosting rights in jeopardy.

SICC members question huge budget for new clubhouse

SINGAPORE — The construction of a new 12,000sqm clubhouse at the Singapore Island Country Club (SICC), estimated to cost S$59.3 million, will be put to the vote by members in a few months’ time, but some are already grousing about the large budget set aside for the project. To raise awareness for the new Bukit … Continue reading SICC members question huge budget for new clubhouse

SICC looks to a new S$60 million clubhouse to replace soon-to-be-lost facilities

SINGAPORE: The Singapore Island Country Club (SICC) looks set to build a new S$60 million facility called the 5 Acre Woods Clubhouse by July 2020. The move to build the new clubhouse is in anticipation of the expiry of leases for the land on which its current Bukit clubhouse sits, as well as the Sime Course in 2021, and the Bukit Course in 2030. In February 2014, the Singapore … Continue reading SICC looks to a new S$60 million clubhouse to replace soon-to-be-lost facilities

Admit women or lose Olympic hosting rights, IOC man tells club

SAPPORO • The club scheduled to host golf in the 2020 Tokyo Games must allow women to have full membership or the organisers will have to find another venue, International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president John Coates told Reuters yesterday. The private Kasumigaseki Country Club in Saitama prefecture, which is set to host both the men's … Continue reading Admit women or lose Olympic hosting rights, IOC man tells club