National Service Resort & Country Club (NSRCC) - SAFRA Resort
Address
National Service Resort & Country Club (NSRCC) - SAFRA Resort
10 Changi Coast Walk
Singapore 499739
Name of contact for environmental and social issues:
Mr James Sua, CGCS, Manager, Course Maintenance
Phone +6543 5710 
Fax +6545 6508
Email click here
Website www.nsrcc.com.sg
Course description
The 27 holes at SAFRA Resort comprises three 9-hole courses, namely Army, Navy and Air Force that are carefully designed to championship quality, making the resort no stranger to hosting international events.
- Army Course
Army course is the first of the three 9-hole courses that underwent upgrading in SAFRA Resort location. The upgrading project will align the tee-boxes to improve playing pleasure and safety, transplant trees to provide a more reasonable challenge, and reposition the bunkers to enhance play variety. A new species of turf grass, Seashore Paspalum SeaIsle Supreme, is used on all the greens. In addition, the fairways are contoured to improve visibility to greens, bunkers and other players in front. Additional features to impress golfers include an island tee in the middle of a pond, which will extend the distance of the hole and add variety to the play strategy, and various bridges reminiscent of the Victorian era. - Navy Course
The Navy course is the second of the three 9-hole courses that underwent upgrading in SAFRA Resort location. In general, the greens in the Navy Course have been reshaped to be more undulating with more bunkers surrounding the greens. With additional bunkers and natural features such as streams, one can definitely look forward to a much more challenging golf game. The Navy Course has always been longer than the Army Course, and now with the lengthening of the holes and undulating greens, golfers who drive or putt well will be rewarded.
For golfers who desire a good challenge, they should try the signature Hole 4. A pond is added in front of the green and a stream across the front of green to the right hand side in of the rough, in between Hole 4 and 5. As a result, a different strategy of play is required. Many new plants are also planted in this Course e.g. there’s a small man made forest in between tee-boxes of Hole 4 and Hole 5, and a group of sea coconut trees in Hole 5. - Air Force Course
In general, the greens in the Air Force course have been reshaped to be more visible on the approach, with gently undulated greens and deep bunkers to provide more challenge to golfers. Fairway bunkers have been added on a number of holes to better define the drive target area. Greenside bunkers are more strategically located around the greens and shaped to create more interesting views on the approach. Similar to the Army and Navy courses, the tees are enlarged to enable more playing area. A large waterfall has been added beside the sixth green. It also has a new rock lined stream with ponds beside the 3rd and 5th tees.
Special features/accolades
- Some of the International events hosted at NSRCC include the 1994 and 1995 Singapore Open Amateur Golf Championship, the APGA Merlion Masters Golf Championship in 1996 and the Ericsson Singapore Open in 1998.
- In natural conservation, NSRCC, being the first country club in Singapore to achieve designation as a "Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary" by the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary System (ACSS) for conserving and sustaining natural resources in its golf courses, stay true to this worthy course by further transformed a pond into a wetland. This wetland added a touch of wilderness to the course, while at the same time provided the various species of wild life in the golf course a nutrient rich habitat. At the same time, the lush whisper of a flowing stream falling from a cliff down to the wetland serve to calm and relax the golfers as they enjoy their round of golf.
Philosophy
“Singapore is a small country and one of our national priorities is to preserve natural habitats in a heavily industrialized and land scarce nation. This is to ensure quality living for our current generation and beyond. The methodologies that NSRCC employ are:
1. To use more environmental friendly methods of fertilizing.
2. As water resource is important to Singapore therefore we systematically recycle and use affluent water in our irrigation system.
3. Parts of the golf course will be carved out for the preservation of wild life habitats.”
Tang Mun Poh
General Manager
National Service Resort & Country Club.
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