Antalya Golf Club (Pasha)

Antalya Golf Club is one of the very best golfing complexes in Belek, adjacent to the 440-room Sirene Belek Golf Hotel. Golfing residents and casual visitors are spoiled for choice as they can choose to play either or both of two great 18-hole layouts – the Sultan and the Pasha.

European Golf Design and David Jones designed the courses at the start of the new millenium and they are laid out over relatively flat terrain, with tree-lined fairways and a liberal sprinkling of pot bunkers and lakes.

At 6,300 yards from the back tees, the Pasha is 700 yards shorter than the Sultan but, as the club says, “it is no walk in the woods” to play the smaller course as the quality of greens, difficulty of bunker positioning and location of water hazards are every bit as good on both layouts.

There are back-to-back short par fours to be played on the front nine at holes 3 and 4, and on the back nine at holes 11 and 12. The hardest of these is probably the shortest – the 291-yard 11th where water runs all the way down the left of the fairway and four bunkers guard the green from those who attempt to drive it from the tee.

The only par three on the inward half is the 145-yard 17th called “Plateau” where water again threatens down the left and two large bunkers protect the front of a shallow putting surface.