Dalaman - Sarigerme Golf Course Update.

THE GOLF RESORT IN SARIGERME, DALAMAN.

Sarigerme, belonging to the Ortaca district is located on the Lycian coast of South West Turkey where the Aegean and Mediterranean meet, just a short drive from Dalaman International Airport. Along the 8 miles drive passing orange groves, cotton and sunflower fields, one arrives at the charming village of Sarigerme which welcomes its visitors with an overwhelming richness of nature. The village itself is set back just a half mile from the 6 km stretch of Sarigerme beach  which joins with Dalaman beach, with its golden sand, one of the finest beaches of the eastern Mediterranean. Scenic mountain ranges, together with lush greenery and pine covered hills around the village offer breathtaking views across Dalaman valley and the deep turquoise – blue waters of the Mediterranean.

Göcay Tourism Golf Insaat Ltd, a well renowned building company from Ankara, operating in the sector of road construction and investing in tourism plants since 1984, has started to build one of the biggest golf projects in Turkey. Göcay Tourism is operating two 4 star hotels and one 5 star holiday resort in Kusadasi. The giant Sarigerme project comprises an 18 hole golf course, set in an area of 500 acres stretching from the Dalaman creek behind the Pegasus Hotel towards the Akdeniz Cooperative.

The Pine Bay Golf Hotel, consisting of two U- shaped complexes, each of which divided into 5 different blocks, will be build between the Dalaman river and the Pegasus Hotel in front line to the beach. The major construction of this project is now complete and will include an integrated holiday resort with numerous health and fitness facilities, spas and water park features, also a fully equipped conference centre and a private marina along the Dalaman river. As a special and unique characteristic of this project and similar to those ones in Florida, smaller yachts can enter through the Dalaman river into an artificial built lake implemented into the golf course around which a number of VIP golf villas are planned to be built. The 5 star Golf Hotel itself will provide a maximum capacity of 1100 beds, beside 200 apartment rooms, a VIP golfers Lounge and a golf Country Club.

Special environment protection rules have been taken into consideration without cutting a single of the existing 9943 pine trees in the area. The golf course was designed by the popular golf designer JMC Design Studio from Belgium which has already designed a few golf courses in Portugal and Spain. A purification system is already being build ensuring no waste water pollution into the sea.

The Hılton golf hotel is now open with the golf course opening in spring 2011. The prestigious Pegasus Resort and Tropical Palace, exclusively contracted to the English tour operator First Choice opened in August 2005 and serving a capacity of 3500 tourists, it is one of the biggest holiday resorts in Turkey. Further more the construction of the Marti and Marina Hotel, also bordering the golf plant with a capacity of 2000 beds, will follow in 2011and once the golf course is finished there will be an overnight capacity of more than 13000 beds in Sarigerme. 

Sarigerme has already developed from a small residential village into a major holiday destination as considerable tourism funds continue to be invested.  Turkish investors from Ankara have a focus on the area between Dalaman and Sarigerme, as the government is working on a new development plan for further future golf courses. It is expected that farming land will change into building land with permission for private and tourism purposes.

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which has already built a few marinas along the Turkish coast, including the Turgutreis Marina in Bodrum, has obtained the tender for this giant marina project. With the new tunnel connecting Göcek and Dalaman it will be just a 40 minutes drive from Fethiye to Sarigerme and the golf project will serve important tourist centres like Dalaman and Göcek as well.

The large areas of stone that you see in the pictures are where the greens are going to be laid. This is the drainage course prior to top soil and seeding.

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