Course Development
GOLFPLAN TO BREAK GROUND
ON SINGAPORE RENOVATION,
AT SELETAR
S
eletar Country Club has selected
Golfplan to direct a sweeping, $20
million renovation to begin this
summer — no surprise, as few if any course
architecture firms better understand the
physical and market terrain here the highly
regulated island nation.
Led by partners Kevin Ramsey and David
Dale, Golfplan (www.golfplan.com) are the
original designers at Singapore’s top track:
The Serapong Course at Sentosa Golf Club.
The firm has also led separate renovation
efforts at the nation’s largest golf property,
Singapore Island Country Club.
“It was a competitive design competition for
the Seletar job — a dozen different firms put
in for it,” Ramsey says. “I’m sure that we were
chosen in part because we are so familiar
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with the unique parameters of course design
work here. I can’t imagine anyone is more
comfortable with the baroque government
regulation process — we’ve been through it
so many times.
“But ultimately, we got the job because our
design solutions were the most artful and
efficient. We can’t wait to get started.”
Built in 1991, Seletar CC sits quite some
distance from Singapore’s central business
district, high in the island’s interior near
Seletar Airport and directly beside the Seletar
Reservoir. All golf courses in Singapore exist
at the pleasure of the government, on leased
property. In 2017, authorities announced
that they would reclaim a 5-hectare strip of
land along the reservoir to make way for new
hiking and bike paths.
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