Belek
Fifteen championship courses in fifteen kilometres of pine forest, thirty minutes from Antalya airport — the highest concentration of golf anywhere in the eastern Mediterranean.
Belek is not a town that happens to have golf courses. It is a fifteen-kilometre strip of pine forest between Antalya airport and the Taurus foothills, planted with championship courses and the hotels to go with them, and very little else.
The density is the point. From most hotels you are inside the gates of three or four courses within twenty minutes, and the furthest is still under forty. You do not lose a morning to a transfer. A four-round week here means four different architects — Faldo, Montgomerie, Thomson, Gayon — without changing your bed.
The ground is sand under pine. The courses drain fast and stay playable through winter rain, and on the layouts nearer the water the sea breeze arrives by mid-afternoon and changes the back nine.
The season runs the opposite way round from northern Europe's. March to May and September to November are the months: 20–25 °C, firm fairways, quick greens. July and August are for people who genuinely enjoy 35 °C. December to February is the value season — 15–18 °C, empty tee sheets, green fees at roughly half.
Belek
Hotels & Resorts
Cornelia Diamond Golf Resort & SPA
Sir Nick Faldo's 27 holes start at the end of the drive. A 611-room resort built around the golf, two kilometres from Belek and thirty-five from the airport.
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Belek
Golf Courses
Belek Antalya Golf Club - Pasha Course
The round that keeps a mixed group together: short, walkable parkland sharing a clubhouse with PGA Sultan.
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Belek Antalya Golf Club - PGA Sultan
Par 71 and a slope of 142 through the pines — the course European Tour players were sent to, and the test at the end of a Belek week.
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Belek Carya Golf Club
Turkey's first heathland course — firm sand, a running ball, and the only floodlit golf in Belek.
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Belek Cornelia Golf Club
Sir Nick Faldo's 27 holes in three nines — a group staying four nights can play here twice without repeating a hole.
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Belek Cullinan Links Golf Club - Aspendos Course
The tighter of Cullinan's two eighteens — shorter than Olympos on the card, and harder than it looks.
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Belek Cullinan Links Golf Club - Olympos Course
Hawtree's 1997 layout between the river and the Mediterranean, rebuilt by European Golf Design — the friendliest championship golf in Belek, and floodlit.
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Gloria Golf Club — New Course
The more playable of Gloria's two championship courses — wide pine-lined fairways, a floodlit back nine, and a handicap limit that lets the whole group play.
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Gloria Golf Club — Old Course
The original Gloria course and still the harder one — narrow tree-lined fairways, 6,529 metres, and the Taurus mountains behind every green.
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Gloria Golf Club — Verde Course
Gloria's nine-hole course — a real round in half a day, and the one the club pairs with a championship nine to build the Verde Select eighteen.
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Belek Kaya Palazzo Golf Club
Nine lakes through 650,000 square metres of pine, and a clubhouse restaurant that is included with your round from September to May.
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Montgomerie Maxx Royal
Host of the Turkish Airlines Open in 2013, 2014 and 2015. Five par fives, 54 bunkers, seven lakes, and floodlights on the back nine.
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The National Golf Club — Championship Course
Belek's first course, and the 2026 host of the Turkish Airlines Open — ten lakes, thirty-two bunkers, and an island green at the second.
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