Belek · Course guide
National Golf Club
The course that started Belek. David Feherty and David Jones cut it through a million square metres of pine forest in 1994, and everything else here was built afterwards.
18 November 1994
Belek’s first golf club, and it still plays like it.
National opened before the resorts did. The pines it runs through were already mature, which is why the corridors here feel narrower and older than on the courses built in the 2000s. Two routings, Irmak and Tuna, make up the eighteen. Seven lakes come into play. There are forty bunkers, which by Belek standards is restrained; the trees do the defending.
Water
7 LAKES
Trees
1994
The scorecard
Par seventy-three, and that is not a misprint.
National plays to par 73, which almost nothing else in Belek does. The eighteen is The Old Course (Irmak – Tuna): the two nines are the front and the back, not a rotating three-loop set.
| Hole | Par | SI | Black | White | Yellow | Red |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 7 | 535 | 507 | 495 | 444 |
| 2 | 3 | 17 | 156 | 129 | 116 | 92 |
| 3 | 4 | 9 | 378 | 360 | 294 | 280 |
| 4 | 5 | 1 | 520 | 454 | 414 | 382 |
| 5 | 3 | 15 | 183 | 167 | 146 | 140 |
| 6 | 4 | 13 | 331 | 286 | 274 | 264 |
| 7 | 4 | 3 | 396 | 367 | 352 | 323 |
| 8 | 4 | 11 | 383 | 364 | 300 | 273 |
| 9 | 4 | 5 | 413 | 387 | 371 | 340 |
| Out | 36 | — | 3,295 | 3,021 | 2,762 | 2,538 |
| 10 | 4 | 14 | 344 | 311 | 300 | 282 |
| 11 | 3 | 18 | 157 | 142 | 134 | 100 |
| 12 | 5 | 4 | 512 | 490 | 476 | 468 |
| 13 | 4 | 10 | 390 | 336 | 305 | 272 |
| 14 | 5 | 2 | 479 | 467 | 449 | 372 |
| 15 | 5 | 8 | 482 | 461 | 447 | 434 |
| 16 | 3 | 16 | 192 | 173 | 138 | 109 |
| 17 | 4 | 6 | 367 | 359 | 320 | 296 |
| 18 | 4 | 12 | 340 | 326 | 280 | 249 |
| In | 37 | — | 3,263 | 3,065 | 2,849 | 2,582 |
| Total | 73 | — | 6,558 | 6,086 | 5,611 | 5,120 |
Why par 73 matters to a society
Five par fives (the 1st, 4th, 12th, 14th and 15th) against three par threes. Stableford scores run higher here than on a par 72, so if your society plays a series across several Belek courses, the National round will flatter the field. Bear it in mind when you set the prizes.
Feherty and Jones
A million square metres, and only forty bunkers in it.
Heathland set in pine forest, with undulating terrain and plenty of strategic options. The fairways are Bermuda 419, the greens Tifdwarf Bermuda at around five hundred square metres each.
| Designers | David Feherty · David Jones |
| Opened | 18 November 1994 |
| Routings | Irmak · Tuna |
| Total area | 1,000,000 m² |
| Tees per hole | 4 |
| Fairways | Bermuda 419 |
| Grasses on site | Bermuda 419 · Lolium Perenne · Tifdwarf Bermuda · Poa Trivialis |
| Greens | Tifdwarf Bermuda · approx. 500 m² each |
| Bunkers | 40 · white quartz sand |
| Lakes | 7 |
| Shoes | Soft spikes: no metal spikes anywhere on site |
| Handicap limit | Men 36 · Women 36 |
Four holes, not eighteen
The last four holes are floodlit. Be clear which course you booked.
Two Belek courses are lit and they are lit very differently. National lights the closing four. Its sister course Carya lights all eighteen. A society that books “the floodlit course” without checking which one can end up with a very short evening.
National
LAST 4
Carya
ALL 18
Read the Carya guide
Read the Carya guide
Same gap as at Carya
The last four holes are floodlit. We confirm months, hours and price with the club before offering an evening round.
Before the first tee
A hundred metres of grass tee, and fifty players on it at once.
The range is three hundred metres long and a hundred and ten wide, with covered bays for weather, open bays for sun, and a grass strip a hundred metres across that takes fifty players at the same time. For a society warm-up before a shotgun, that width is the number that matters.
| Driving range | 300 m long × 110 m wide |
| Covered hitting areas | 12 |
| Open hitting areas | 18 |
| Grass tee | 100 m wide · 50 players at once |
| Putting greens | 2 · 800 m² total · 40 m long |
| Chipping / pitching | 1 each |
| Buggies | 60 |
| Rental sets | 20 · TaylorMade M2 |
| Pro shop | 110 m² |
| Tuition languages | English · Turkish · Russian · German |
| Address | Kadriye, Üçkumtepesi Mevkii, Belek |
Practice facilities
Twelve covered and eighteen open hitting areas, one chipping green, one pitching green and two putting greens.
What a society needs to know
Thirty-six off both, and no metal spikes anywhere.
National asks 36 of men and 36 of women, the same as Carya and more forgiving than Kaya Palazzo asks of men. The one rule worth passing round the coach before you land: this is a non-metal-spike facility, with no exceptions. Old shoes in the bag will not get on the first tee.
| Club | Men | Women |
|---|---|---|
| Cullinan Links | 36 | 44 |
| Gloria (all three) | 36 | 40 |
| Carya | 36 | 36 |
| National | 36 | 36 |
| Sueno | 36 → 28 peak | 36 → 28 peak |
| Kaya Palazzo | 28 | 36 |
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