Seletar Base Golf Course: a 1930 RAF course
Golf arrived at Seletar with the RAF. A nine-hole course was laid out for the British Royal Air Force in 1930, the same year Seletar became an RAF station.
From RAF course to country club
When British forces left Singapore in 1971, the course was handed to the National Sports Promotion Board, which renamed it Seletar Country Club and ran it as a members’ club.
In 1995 Seletar Country Club moved just over a kilometre west to new premises with an 18-hole layout beside the Lower Seletar Reservoir. The original nine holes stayed in use as a public course under the name Seletar Base Golf Course.
Making way for the aerospace park
The redevelopment of the old camp into the Seletar Aerospace Park, begun by JTC in 2006, brought the base course to an end: it was removed to make room for the new aviation district, while Seletar Country Club renewed the lease on its newer course.
Today the old fairways are part of the aerospace park, but the Country Club’s 18-hole course near the reservoir continues the line that began with the RAF in 1930.