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Changi Golf club Singapore

 

Changi Golf club Singapore

Changi Golf club Singapore

Changi Golf club Singapore is like an oasis and a welcome change from the hustle and bustle of this busy city. Located just beside Changi airport. This was 2008, when I was here last year we played at Legends in Malaysia.

Duncan Paul slams one up the middle

Changi Golf club Singapore

Here is an Aussie Duncan Paul teeing off, he now lives in Hong Kong.

Old friend Steve Bates at Changi Golf Club

Changi Golf club Singapore

The construction of the military base at Changi commenced in 1926 and was occupied by the British Army and Commonwealth forces up to the surrender in WWII. When peace was declared in 1945 the British Army went back into the Changi site and stayed there until 1946 when the administration and running of the base was handed over to the Royal Air Force. The RAF Changi personnel decided to create a golf section and they laid out a few holes on the sports field without any bunkers.  It was not until 1949 that the golf course was ready for play. Changi is a reminder of Singapore’s historical connection with WWII, as the course winds through an area filled with mementos of the British presence like the soldier’s barracks, officer’s quarters, gun-emplacements and air-raid bunkers.

The view from Changi Golf Club

Nice course Changi Golf club Singapore

When the RAF left Singapore in 1971, the club was privatized and civilian members were taken in to form the pioneer group of Changi Golf Club. Since then the golf course and the clubhouse have been regularly upgraded.

Steve Bates waits for lunch at Changi Golf Club

Changi Golf club Singapore

Steve is waiting patiently for lunch.

Happy waitress at Changi Golf Club

Changi Golf club Singapore

Now that’s what I call a big happy smile.

Changi Golf Club, Steve Bates & Duncan Paul

Changi Golf club Singapore

Both Aussie guys living in Singapore supported by their hard working wives. :)
 
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Author: David Herd

My history, particularly over the last 30 years is dominated by overseas travel. I sold my home in Australia October 20th 2011 and have have been living in Thailand since then. I don’t know where the time has gone? It seems like you go to sleep one night, wake up the next morning, and 20 years have flashed by. Not sure how many years I have left, however I have enjoyed a wonderful charmed life, and if it all ended today I would leave this world with no regrets. I was born in Sydney halfway through the last century, started my travels in the 60s with the usual U.K. Europe adventure at the age of 20, back to Australia and worked in Sydney, Melbourne & Adelaide in Sales & Marketing with multinational companies including Sanyo, Canon & Remington. Engaged to be married 3 times and never quite made it to the alter, finally realized by the mid 90s I was not cut out for "long term relationships" so I moved to the Gold Coast in Queensland in January 1987, worked for a couple of banks as a Financial Planner, I took a year off work in 1998 to travel and never went back to full time work again, after 25 fun filled years on the Coast I packed up and moved to Thailand. What is the purpose of this blog? Well I really want to use it to record my travel experiences & to display my photographs, give and receive travel tips, comment on places I visit, restaurants I eat in and use it to replace the autobiography I intended to write, apart from all that it helps me fill in my day. :) I moved to Thailand mainly because I wanted to keep travelling while my health allowed me to, there are huge advantages being closer to all the places I want to visit. Cost of living in Thailand is around 35% of the cost in Australia, plus flights are 50% cheaper because you are much closer to everywhere. ???? Consequently I am able to travel to many more places compared to living in Australia. Having said all that, it is & has always been my intention to return to Australia when my travelling is finished, I predict this will happen around 2021.

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