National Golf Club

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Just a short drive from Antalya's vibrant city centre, National Golf Club is carved into Belek's pine and eucalyptus groves, with the Mediterranean never far away. This is one of the area's most established championship tests and it still feels a cut above plenty of the newer resort layouts.

Tree-lined fairways, well-placed bunkers and water that comes into play on key shots mean this is a course for golfers who like to think. Nearly every hole asks you to shape a shot, and the best angle into the green is often the difference between a birdie chance and a scramble.

The greens are large, true and properly contoured, with pin positions that reward a smart tee shot. Find the right side of the fairway and you'll be firing at flags. Miss it and you'll be working around overhanging trees, sand and the occasional nervy carry.

If you're travelling with a group, your partner or going solo, National delivers a proper round in a cracking setting, backed up by the warmth and hospitality Turkey's Mediterranean coast is known for.

Good fit if: you want a strategic Belek round where placement matters more than blasting driver all day.

Best suited to: mid to low handicappers, confident ball-strikers and anyone who fancies ticking off Belek's most established championship layout.

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National Golf Club

At 6,907 yards, National is regularly talked about as Belek's standout course and it's easy to see why. Feherty's routing winds through pine and eucalyptus, with water and bunkering placed to punish anything loose and reward a committed line. The course has more of a members' club accent than many of the resort layouts in the area, which makes it extremely popular with serious golfers looking for a proper test.

Ladies European Tour player Sophie Walker, who finished 6th in the Turkish Airlines Ladies Open here in 2014, calls it "a breathtaking golf course and one of my favourites on tour." She highlights the par-5 4th as a standout on the front nine, a short par five that tempts you to go for the green in two but protects the entire left side with water. "It is very much a birdie or bogey hole," she says.

Her favourite on the course is the 18th, a hole that sums up everything National demands. The tee shot needs to be precise to avoid the fairway bunker and water left, and the approach into the green, with the clubhouse framing the backdrop, is one of the most picturesque finishes in Turkey.

Walker's advice? Don't always reach for the driver. Accuracy matters more than length here. Take more break than you think on the greens. Try a kebab at the halfway house. And make sure you grab a photo from the 2nd tee and the patio behind the 18th, because this really is a stunning golf course to look at.

National should be a certainty for a challenging and rewarding round during your next golf holiday on Turkey's Mediterranean coast.

Course Information
Par	73
Designed by	David Feherty, David Jones
Opened for play	1994

Tees
Black	6,558 metres	SSS 75.9
White	6,086 metres	SSS 72.8
Yellow	5,611 metres	SSS 70.7
Red	5,120 metres	SSS 73.3

What Our Golfers Say

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Condition overall 6.0

Condition of greens 6.0

Speed of round Quick

Value for money 4.0

Facilities 6.0

Difficulty Hard

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Steven

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2 Sep 2019

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6.0

National Golf Club is one of my favourites in the Belek region, but I felt let down by the poor value for money given the hot season and ongoing maintenance work on the course, which was pretty intrusive. It was also the first time I had played the course from the Black tees, and it soon became clear that some of the trees that frame the shots from the back tees are becoming overgrown and are overly intrusive (in one case almost totally blocking out a direct shot to the par three fifth hole, forcing an unreasonable amount of shot shaping with an already long iron. There was also a long par 4 on the back nine which required a very low flight on a driver due to overhanging branches). The pines in the fairway are a feature that need to be negotiated, and there is a lot of shot shaping required, which is fun (and difficult), but also leaves you wondering whether the course designer really intended the fairway obstacles to grow to their current size. At the end of the day I concluded that although I consider myself a reasonably long driver of the ball (>270 yds), I had probably bitten off more than I could chew and I will revert to the white tees next time I play, which from memory are considerably more playable. The greens had recently been hollow-tined and were very slow and a bit uneven. All around the course there was maintenance work around the paths which was very unsightly, although didn't really impact play very much. Fairways were in decent condition given the time of year, although some of the areas around the greens were a bit bare. Bunkers were in excellent condition. There was extensive (and noisy) building work going on around the clubhouse which spoiled the atmosphere on the terrace. Pace of play was good, with the course being almost empty and the few groups that were out letting me through immediately. My main gripe was the pricing, with the round costing €90 with a further €35 for a cart, making the cost almost double the Sultan/Pacha, and only marginally less than it cost for a walk-in green fee during high season in early April, when I think I payed €95. Add to that some pretty extortionate pricing on the bar menu, and the experience cost me over €150, while the condition of the course and clubhouse was poor due to maintenance work, and due to lack of attention to how the course plays from the black tees. I was disappointed, and will not be back during summer months, although I would keep it on my list for during the season.

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