SEA Games gold medal a silver lining for Singapore golf

IN A year of golfing challenges in Singapore, a long-awaited SEA Games 2017 team gold medal comes as much more than a welcome whiff of fresh air.

In fact, this triumph is the launchpad from which the Singapore Golf Association (SGA) hopes to change the face of golf in the island in the wake of a pall of gloom hovering over the local sport.

Club and course closures and uncertainty about lea…