A History of The Legends FC Membership Types

I love the Wayback Machine from the Internet Archives. "Browse through 85 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago." So if you put in a URL (like http://www.legendsfortcanning.com/fortcanning/member.htm), the archive will let you see all the versions that they have kept of the site over time!!!

Talking to a few members who don't remember the Club having any kind of tiered membership, I started to do a little research as my wife and I also so not remember Golfing vs. Social membership types when we joined. Hence, the Wayback Machine comes into the picture...

So back in 13 February 2004 (and probably before then), there was only 1 kind of membership (no difference between Golf or Social): See Members Benefit here.

By the 25 November 2004, the Club also began offering "OCBC Titanium-Legends Fort Canning Park Membership": See the offer here. I could not find a mention of other kinds of membership, but benefits at that time are listed here.

By 23 August 2005, the Club was offering "Ordinary Membership" without any distinction between Social or Golfing. See here. Term membership with OCBC Titanium is still available. Under the membership benefit page that September, it lists "Members enjoy access to 64 golf slots daily and unlimited access to all other facilities and activities available at The Legends Golf & Country Resort. Rewards Points can only be earned and redeemed at the Club (The Legends Fort Canning Park). For the golf rates and bookings at The Legends Golf & Country Resort, please call..."

By 27 April 2006, the Club introduced the new "Ordinary Golfing" and "Ordinary Social" membership tiers. Did anyone get the memo? Did any existing members get a letter to them that tells them what they are? I didn't.

Membership Types	Entrance Fee	Transfer Fee	Monthly Subscription
Ordinary Golfing	$7,988	$1,000	$105 (S) / $125 (F)
Ordinary Social	$5,888	$1,000	$85 (S) / $105 (F)
Membership Redemption Scheme Golfing (MRSG)	$2,500	Pls refer to Terms & Conditions below.	$105 (S) / $125 (F)
Membership Redemption Scheme Social (MRSS)	$1,500	Pls refer to Terms & Conditions below.	$85 (S) / $105 (F)
One Year Term	$3,188	Non-Transferable	N.A

By 23 November 2006, the membership chart looks as follows:

Membership Types	Entrance Fee	Transfer Fee	Monthly Subscription
Ordinary Golfing	$9,888	$1,000	$105 (S) / $125 (F)
Ordinary Social	$6,888	$1,000	$85 (S) / $105 (F)
Membership Redemption Scheme Golfing (MRSG)	$3,000	Pls refer to Terms & Conditions below.	$105 (S) / $125 (F)
Membership Redemption Scheme Social (MRSS)	$2,000	Pls refer to Terms & Conditions below.	$85 (S) / $105 (F)
One Year Term Golfing	$3,188	Non-Transferable	N.A.
One Year Term Social	$2,188	Non-Transferable	N.A.

On 23 January 2008, the last entry into the Archive lists the same as the above. (Anything after 1 April 2008 is still being processed).

Note that all this while, the Membership Benefits page archive does not mention a distinction between "Golf" and "Social". See all the versions here. EVEN the current live version on at legendsfortcanning.com does NOT have this distinction!
- "Ordinary Members are entitled for the following benefits: ...
... Members enjoy access to 64 golf slots daily and unlimited access to all other facilities and activities available at The Legends Golf & Country Resort... For the golf rates and bookings at The Legends Golf & Country Resort, please call..."

So are the current members clear on the difference between "Ordinary Golf" and "Ordinary Social"? Letter?

So somewhere between January and September 2008, the packages, listed on the current site, suddenly became:

Membership Types	Entrance Fee	Transfer Fee	Monthly Subscription
Ordinary Golfing	$15,000	$1,000	$105 (S) / $125 (F)
Ordinary Social	$6,888	$1,000	$85 (S) / $105 (F)

What does that mean? Do any members who have joined before 2006 know what is the difference between Golfing and Social membership? We know that we are both "Ordinary".