Rahiman Salleh, 54, admitted embezzling the money which came from golfers and a company which had arranged to use the club's facilities for five years.

He was allowed to defer his sentence until Feb 11 to settle personal matters.

A district court heard that between September 2004 and May last year, the club received about $1 million from a company called OOAG, which provides golf sessions for credit card holders with various banks.

Under the agreement with the club, OOAG would maintain a credit balance, from which payment would be deducted every month based on the number of sessions signed up by card holders.

Rahiman was in charge of handling the monthly billing and would alert OOAG when the balance was low and the account needed topping up.

Each time OOAG paid up, Rahiman misappropriated amounts ranging from a few hundred dollars to several thousand dollars.

It also turned out that he did the same from the club's members who paid to use the golf course at the club.

Rahiman took their money billed the amount to companies which held corporate accounts with the club.

Investigations revealed that Rahiman used the money for his expenses and to pay for his credit card bills.

He was found out in May last year when an internal audit revealed the discrepancies in the accounts.

Rahiman has returned $94,700 to the club.

In his mitigation, the first-offender, who has five school-going children, told the court he was remorseful.. He could have been jailed for up to seven years.