pulai springs golf & country club


i paid rm$40 000 (s$26 800) for my pulai springs membership and that was supposed to be a special price. one of the former directors was my colleague's husband and that's how i ended up buying it. it seemed he owned part of the land - an oil palm estate. there were some durian trees within the estate and they were kept in tact.

now every month i am paying rm$185 subscription to help them maintain the grass and the place. i have only played once on the course. we have also stayed once at the small hotel within the resort. when my daughters were younger, we would take them to the club for a swim. we have had dinner at the qing palace restaurant a few times.

the project would have been abandoned if the singapore registered company psc had not injected funds into the project. many of the pioneer members were so worried at one stage that they sought legal advice in an effort to recover their investment. i got a singapore friend, who is a lawyer, to get a malaysian law firm to check on the company. they advised me to hold on to my membership.

i am stuck with this membership. there is little point in selling the membership as the transfer fee is as much as the selling price. i have decided to keep it and to play golf on a regular basis when i retire.