Belek · Course guide
Kaya Palazzo
Eighteen holes, nine lakes and four bridges across sixty-five hectares, with two hotels the club puts a hundred and fifty metres away.
The scorecard
This card came from the club, not from a database.
Eighteen holes, par, stroke index and four sets of tees.
| Hole | Par | SI | White | Yellow | Blue | Red |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | 463 | 448 | 431 | 412 |
| 2 | 4 | 9 | 304 | 278 | 253 | 253 |
| 3 | 4 | 1 | 389 | 367 | 342 | 320 |
| 4 | 3 | 17 | 147 | 137 | 127 | 117 |
| 5 | 5 | 3 | 479 | 454 | 430 | 430 |
| 6 | 3 | 13 | 163 | 146 | 127 | 124 |
| 7 | 4 | 11 | 336 | 316 | 293 | 268 |
| 8 | 4 | 15 | 323 | 303 | 276 | 256 |
| 9 | 5 | 7 | 437 | 420 | 405 | 398 |
| Out | 37 | — | 3,041 | 2,869 | 2,684 | 2,578 |
| 10 | 4 | 16 | 304 | 289 | 281 | 264 |
| 11 | 3 | 8 | 181 | 166 | 150 | 127 |
| 12 | 4 | 12 | 377 | 351 | 322 | 283 |
| 13 | 5 | 4 | 472 | 451 | 426 | 389 |
| 14 | 3 | 14 | 190 | 170 | 151 | 134 |
| 15 | 4 | 10 | 356 | 338 | 315 | 295 |
| 16 | 3 | 18 | 155 | 143 | 133 | 118 |
| 17 | 4 | 2 | 361 | 340 | 318 | 297 |
| 18 | 5 | 6 | 505 | 487 | 459 | 426 |
| In | 35 | — | 2,901 | 2,735 | 2,555 | 2,333 |
| Total | 72 | — | 5,942 | 5,604 | 5,239 | 4,911 |
All distances in metres. In yards: white 6,498 · yellow 6,129 · blue 5,729 · red 5,371.
Rating and slope
Measured by the Turkish Golf Federation.
The official handicap tables are issued by the Turkish Golf Federation and carry the EGA and USGA marks.
| Tees | Par | Course rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men · back | 72 | 71.0 | 127 |
| Men · standard | 72 | 69.4 | 121 |
| Ladies · back | 72 | 72.6 | 127 |
| Ladies · standard | 72 | 70.4 | 122 |
For scale: a slope of 113 is average. At 127 off the back tees this is above average without being punishing. The difficulty here is the water more than the length.
Three things from the card
The front nine is the longer half
Par 37 out, 35 back. Three par fives on the front, two on the back, and three of the four short holes come home. A society that plays a shotgun start should know the two halves are not interchangeable.
Stroke index 1 at the third
And stroke index 2 at the seventeenth. The two hardest holes on the card sit near the start and near the finish, which is unusual and which makes the middle of the round quieter than the scorecard total suggests.
The sixteenth is the easiest hole
A hundred and fifty-five metres off the white, stroke index 18, and it comes immediately before stroke index 2 and a par five home. In matchplay, this course does not let a lead settle.
The course
Nine lakes and four bridges on sixty-five hectares.
Site
65 ha
650,000 m²
Water
9 lakes
crossed by 4 bridges
Longest tee
5,942 m
6,498 yards off the white
Designer
Golf Med
with David Jones
Opened
2007
clubhouse renovated 2023
Driving range
80 × 280 m
target greens and landing areas
Putting green
3,150 m²
practice putting green, over
Fairways and tees
Bermuda 419
warm-season turf
Greens
Tif Dwarf
Bermuda
From the airport
27 km
Antalya International
Nine lakes
Nine lakes sit inside eighteen holes, with four bridges carrying the routing over them. For scale, Cullinan Links has ten lakes across thirty-six. Whatever else this course asks of your society, it will ask for golf balls.
Bermuda through and through
Bermuda 419 on the fairways and tees, Tif Dwarf on the greens: warm-season grass, which gives a firm, fast surface through the season. It is also why the September window in the calendar below is an overseeding closure, not ordinary maintenance.
Twenty-seven kilometres from the plane
Antalya city centre is 35 km, and Kadriye, the nearest town, is 2.5 km.
A GREEN FROM DIRECTLY OVERHEAD
ONE OF THE NINE LAKES · THE DEFENCE ON THIS COURSE IS WATER
Before you pick your dates
Twenty-five days the course is shut, and six days you cannot take a buggy.
A society that books the first week of October, pays its deposits, and then finds out on arrival that buggies are off has had its trip damaged by an omission, not by bad luck. The next window is 17 to 30 September 2026.
| Dates | What happens |
|---|---|
| 1 – 12 July 2026 | Course closed. Maintenance. Past. |
| 5 – 17 August 2026 | Course closed. Maintenance. Past. |
| 17 – 30 September 2026 | Overseeding. The course reopens on 1 October 2026. |
| 1 – 6 October 2026 inclusive | No buggies allowed while the new grass takes. The course is open and playable, but your group walks. |
| The same four windows, a year on | |
| 1 – 12 July 2027 | Course closed. |
| 5 – 17 August 2027 | Course closed. |
| 17 – 30 September 2027 | Overseeding. Reopens 1 October. |
| 1 – 6 October 2027 inclusive | No buggies allowed. |
The same four windows have run on the same dates for three years. We still confirm the current year with the club before we quote any date near it.
What this means in practice
The club’s golf all-inclusive concept runs 1 September to 31 May, which tells you which months it is built around, and both summer closures fall outside that window. The one to watch is the first week of October: inside the season, course open, buggies off.
If your party includes members who need a buggy, that week is not the week. Tell us early and we will put you somewhere else for those six days.
Golf All Inclusive
What the golf all-inclusive covers.
It applies to any golfer holding a nine- or eighteen-hole tee time at Kaya Palazzo on the same day. Anyone without a tee time that day pays from the menu.
| Where | Hours | Included |
|---|---|---|
| Golf club restaurant · breakfast à la carte, golf snack menu | 08:00 – 11:00 | Yes |
| Golf club restaurant · all day à la carte, golf snack menu | 11:00 – 17:30 | Yes |
| Golf club bar local and imported premium spirits, soft drinks, tea, coffee | 08:00 – 18:30 | Yes |
| Buggy bar the cart that comes round the course | Varies with the season | No · charged |
| Halfway snack | Varies with the season | No · charged |
| Private gala prize-giving dinners and group events | — | No · charged |
Two things worth saying out loud
The halfway house is not included. A group arriving from a UK all-inclusive package expects the turn to be free. Here it is charged, and so is the drinks buggy that comes round the course. It is a small figure per head and an irritating one to discover on the ninth.
Golf all-inclusive does not run in June, July or August; the concept period is 1 September to 31 May. Summer trips are priced differently, and we will show you the difference in the quote.
Playing it
What a society should check before it collects deposits.
| Handicap | The club gives 28 for men and 36 for women as the maximum handicap accepted. Twenty-eight is tighter than most. Cullinan Links, for comparison, allows 36 and 44. If your roster has players above 28, tell us before you take money and we will confirm the club’s answer. |
| Dress code | Soft spikes only. Normal golf attire on the course and in the clubhouse. Denim jeans, collarless shirts, flip flops and bare feet are not accepted, and that applies in the clubhouse as well as on the course. Put it in your society’s joining instructions. |
| Hire | Clubs, trolleys and buggies available. Note the October buggy window above. |
| Tuition | Golf academy running individual lessons, group lessons and lesson packages. |
| Practice | Driving range 80 metres wide and 280 metres long with target greens and landing areas, plus a practice putting green of over 3,150 m². |
| Facilities | Pro shop, men's and ladies' locker rooms, bag store room. |
| Cards | Visa, Mastercard and American Express. |
THE COURSE, THE RESORT AND THE MEDITERRANEAN IN ONE FRAME
THE CLUBHOUSE ACROSS THE WATER
The clubhouse
Renovated in 2023, and it shows.
The course opened in 2007; the clubhouse was renovated sixteen years later. The dining rooms and the covered terrace look straight out over the course and one of the lakes, which matters on the one afternoon of the trip when everybody is sitting still.
Private gala dinners are arranged and charged separately. If your society wants a prize-giving with its own room, book it when you book the tee times.
THE BAR · OPEN FIRE, WHICH BELEK IN JANUARY EARNS
THE COVERED TERRACE · LUNCH RUNS TO 17:30
| Club | Kaya Palazzo Golf Club, Belek |
| Address | Kadriye Mah. Taşlı Burun Cad. No:4, Serik / Antalya |
| Airport | 27 km from Antalya International (AYT) |
| Nearest town | Kadriye, 2.5 km |
| Concept | Golf All Inclusive, 1 September – 31 May |
Where to stay
Two hotels, both a hundred and fifty metres away.
On a lot of packages the hotel is described as “close to the course” and no one gives you a number. Here it is 150 metres to both hotels.
| Hotel | To the clubhouse |
|---|---|
| Kaya Palazzo Golf Resort | 150 m |
| Kaya Belek Hotel | 150 m |
Room sizes, bed types category by category, unit counts, what each board basis covers and what it charges for, and the group rules are all set out on the Kaya Palazzo & Kaya Belek hotel page.
One thing to be clear about before you compare prices
Golf All Inclusive above and the hotels’ board basis are two different products. The golf club bar is covered by Golf All Inclusive. On Kaya Palazzo’s standard Palazzo All Inclusive the same bar is chargeable, as are all six of the resort’s à la carte restaurants unless you are in a villa, a mansion or a Luxury Lagoon Suite. A group that assumes the hotel wristband covers the clubhouse will be wrong. Ask us which of the two you are being quoted.
LATE LIGHT OVER THE COURSE, LOOKING SOUTH TOWARDS THE SEA
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Tell us your dates, group size, how many rounds and the highest handicap in the party. We come back with an itemised quote, and we will tell you if your dates run into the maintenance calendar.
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