Singapore doesn’t sell Singapore as a golf tour destination. Food? The food is all time. Shopping? The malls have malls. And the nightlife? Oh, baby, abso-freakin’-lutely – six of the world’s top-50 bars are in Singapore, there’s a casino that looks like a three-pronged Star Wars super-base, and you can gad about long into the night. Singapore Tourism sells Singapore as a foodie, fun and funky town.
But as a golf tour destination? Not at all. They don’t even try. Because compared to the quality, wow factor and access to golf in Thailand, Vietnam, China (and, you know, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Norfolk Island, and most everywhere else) the value of golf in Singapore is, to coin a phrase from punting parlance, “big overs”. Overs? It’s Winx at 10-1.
And…