The two golfers who were playing in the same flight with Mr Heng
Jui How – who was found dead at Sentosa Golf Club’s (SGC) Serapong
course on Friday morning – had thought that the businessman had
gone home.
In their statements to the authorities, the pair had waited
briefly for Mr Heng on the 18th-hole fairway after they had teed
off minutes earlier.
According to a Straits Times report, the flight mates,
believed to be Caucasians, finished their final hole after Mr Heng
didn’t show up, thinking he had left the course.
A SGC spokesman said maintenance workers and marshals tasked
with ensuring no one is left behind did not encounter anything
unusual as they cleared the course on Thursday.
Mr Peter Downie, the club’s director of golf, also said that
checks between 6.30pm and 7.15pm missed the fact that one of the
220 buggies had not been returned.
Mr Heng’s friend told the Straits Times that the avid
golfer should have been accounted for and reminded golfers of
ethics on the course.
Said Mr Eric Song, “It’s frustrating not to know details.
Surely, someone should have checked to see why he had not reported
back.”
“Flight mates should perhaps stay to make sure everyone
completes the round,” he added.
Police are investigating the incident.
Mystery surrounds golfer’s death at Sentosa Golf
Club
Sentosa Golf Club (SGC) is investigating how the dead body
of a businessman ended up floating in a pond within its
premises on Friday morning.
The Straits Times reports that Heng Jui How, 65,
had been playing at a corporate tournament the day before and when
he had still not returned home at 530am, his family alerted the
police.
Mr Heng’s body was found floating in a 4-metre deep pond near
the 18th hole of the Serapong course by a worker. The buggy was
also submerged in the pond.
Mysteriously, the club’s end-of-day checks on Thursday
evening failed to uncover the fact that the buggy he had been
using during the tournament had still not been returned.
The club’s director of golf, Peter Downie, told the newspaper,
“We did the clearance of the golf course..and nothing was amiss.
Not only did they (the workers) not see anything, the other players
in his flight and those in the other groups also did not see
anything.”
There has been a recent spate of deaths at Sentosa.
In early May, a man was found dead at Resorts World Sentosa’s
Hard Rock Hotel. The man, in his 60s, who apparently committed
suicide, was found in his room by a staff member.
And in March, a China woman’s naked body was found floating in
one of the private swimming pools in Sentosa Cove.
Subsequent investigations found that Li Hong Yan, 24,
was moonlighting as a part-time karaoke hostess in a number of
KTV lounges in Havelock Road.
