Golf: Poh family to manage Punggol range

Brothers Poh Eng Teck (left) and Poh Eng Wah at Toa Payoh Golf Range in 2018. PHOTO: ST FILE
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With their wood-and-attap home a par-four distance away from the sixth hole of the Singapore Island Country Club's (SICC) Old Course, it is only natural that the Poh family took to golf as a pastime.

It was in the 60s and 70s that the family of six brothers and one sister turned this hobby into a passion after having sneaked in past 6.45pm on many occasions to play a couple of rounds before failing light.

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