nice pics...did you pay full rack rate of $450-$500?

Yes...well, my dad did. Brother graduated from Monterey Institute, and this was a graduation present that I also took advantage of.

Photo I took on a golf holiday in Turkey earlier this year. Lykia Links, really scenic course.

^^ very cool pic

Houses on the 18th hole at Pebble damage it.

You mean aesthetically? I was actually surprised at how many houses there were on the course, or more how close they were to the greens/fairways. Pretty much all non-ocean front courses had houses on them. I don't like hitting houses in the retirement community where I occasionally play, let alone the $5mm houses lining the course.

Yes, aesthetically, and for the other reasons you mentioned.. I remember playing Bethpage Black with my friend, and him saying 'no houses, and no cart paths..' from that point forward, I appreciate that fact about some courses.

that pic from turkey almost looks fake...I assume conditions were perfect?

I would feel bad taking a divot out of that fairway. That looks like carpeting.

I upped the vibrancy a bit on that photo but other than that i didn't do much to it. The course was in near perfect condition. It's a bit further away from the hotels than the other courses which might explain why it doesn't get as much traffic.

Here are some unedited photos straight from the camera:



18th fairway:


18th green:


Zipping around on these made it even more fun:

Lykia is such an awesome course and that's a great picture from it!

I posted a few pics from there in this thread a few years ago, but have since changed my picture host, so they're gone.

This was my favourite of the bunch and the motive quite similar to the one you shot:



The tree looks quite different, but I think it has to be the same one - you found a lot better angle with the path and the hills than I did though. Great shot!

I remember your photos and that's why I made sure we played that course when we went this year. Was not disappointed!

That's awesome!

We went back to Turkey this May also and of course played Lykia again - they did not have those Segways though - or at least we didn't see any or get offered any. That looks like mad fun.

We also played Montgomerie, Sultan, Carya and National - all great courses. Montgomerie was especially good and got a close second to Lykia - also we had the entire course to ourselves for some reason. It was near the end of the golf season then, but still was quite strange, but great, to be totally alone out there.

those Turkey pics are awesome, thx for posting.

Are those planks of wood or dirt patches above the sandtraps?

The Segways were being rented out by a couple of guys who travel to different courses and rent them out. It was really good fun, especially when my buddy faceplanted in front of the clubhouse.

We played the National as well. Quite a challenging course but I enjoyed it apart from that one hole where the green is very elevated. I was just off the back of the green on the top tier and ended up having to make my way down the hill again after the chip... We found the staff a bit rude though. Well at least in comparison to the super friendly staff at all the other courses we played. Which hotel did you stay in?

Planning to go again so will check Montgomerie out, have heard good things.

They are planks of wood to help keep the bunker faces from collapsing I assume. They can be quite steep.

The one with the ridiculously undulated green at the top of the hill where the approach sort of turned a corner to the left? Yes, that was probably the most unique green and green approach I've played

We stayed at Cornelia Diamond both times - it's a great all-inclusive resort though a bit pricey.

Did you visit the town of Belek? There's a restaurant there that servers the most amazing pepper steak I've ever had - they were called Moods the first time we were there, but had now changed their name to Mambo Lounge without changing much else. The food was certainly just as good. Really cool staff, generous drinks and probably the best chef in Turkey

OMG WANT!!!

Of course instead of it I wouldn't mind having one of these either!

Yep, that's the one.

Stayed in the Gloria Verde which is one of the smaller hotels but couldn't fault it. More of an older crowd though so we were always the last ones at the bar which didn't help the golf but when the drinks are free... We didn't visit Belek as there didn't seem to be much there to do but thanks for the recommendation, might look it up next time.

You're right in that Belek itself is pretty pointless with very little to see or do if you're not interested in a ton of shops all selling pretty much the same shiny souvenirs, clothes and other touristy stuff.

There's an old ruin that they've turned into some sort of fountain/waterfall that's worth a visit if you're there anyway, but hardly worth the trip on its own.

There's also a decent golf shop (Golf USA) with a simulator to try out clubs and a good selection of clothes, shoes, clubs and pretty much everything else.

Belek is just a few minutes by taxi from Cornelia though, so we spent quite a few evenings at the Mambo Lounge, which imo, is the only real attraction in Belek - it's a very good one though

Me and a friend played Wooden Sticks today, it's a replice course just outside of Toronto. I got a new camera recently so I snapped some pics.

I couldn't help but sneak a peak at #17 on the way by, what a dirty pin position. Result: I am 5/5 and the streak continues.


No carts in the fescue of the road hole please, this is sacred land.




Attacking some Pine Valley hole.

Sick camera those pics are cleannnnnnnnn

Thanks!

Played Plantation last weekend.

It was really windy as expected, which made putting those huge greens really difficult. As a 3.2, I shot 82 from the blue/combo tees. 35 putts



Ernie's record score:











Me and my brother's drives on 18, he got me by a foot! 384 and 384.3 -- we both drew it a bit too much and missed the last bit of the slope on the right to get to the flat.



Drive on 18, wind was from the right so wanted to start it at the clubhouse and let it drift back, overdrew it a touch.



Cool hole by the Ritz where we were staying, didn't get a chance to play the resort course (I believe it's called Half Moon Bay):