Belek delivered again. The Turkish Airlines Open 2026 wrapped up on 3 May at National Golf Club in Antalya with Sweden’s Mikael Lindberg lifting the trophy and a USD 2.75 million prize fund on offer. Behind the competition, Turkish Airlines, the DP World Tour, and Regnum Hotels put on a show that was as much about the destination as the golf. And the destination, it turned out, was very much ready for its moment.

Belek has been building towards weeks like this for the best part of three decades. The resort district on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast now welcomes hundreds of thousands of golf visitors every year, and it is not difficult to see why. The sun always seems to show up, the courses are world-class, and the hospitality is exactly what it should be at this level. The Turkish Airlines Open, the fifth and final stop on the DP World Tour’s 2026 Asian Swing, gave the region its most prominent global platform yet.

National Golf Club, founded on 18 November 1994 as the very first golf club in Belek and a proud member of the Regnum Hotels portfolio, hosted a DP World Tour event for the first time, becoming the 463rd venue in the tour’s history to do so. Designed by Ryder Cup player David Feherty and Senior Tour professional David Jones, the championship heathland course sits within a scenic pine forest and plays to 7,287 yards at par 72. It is a course that produced four days of competition and kept the leaderboard interesting right up until the end.

Mikael Lindberg played the final round with composure and claimed a victory that drew praise from both the players and tour officials. Throughout the week, feedback on course conditions at National Golf Club was glowing, a tribute to the work put in by the club’s team over many months of preparation. The course record of 66, set by Germany’s Bernd Ritthammer during the Turkish Airlines Challenge back in 2014, survived the week intact, though not for lack of trying, and a $40,000 bonus had been on offer for any player who could beat it.

Built for Champions

National Golf Club has everything an avid golfer could want. A full practice facility covers driving range, putting and chipping greens, and practice bunkers, with professional coaching from PGA-qualified instructors on hand throughout. The final four holes are floodlit, ensuring there is no reason to stop playing when the evening rolls in.

The club sits within the wider Regnum Hotels portfolio alongside Carya Golf Club, which opened in 2008 and was designed by the great Peter Thomson. Carya is known as Europe’s first fully floodlit 18-hole golf course, inspired by the celebrated Surrey heathland layouts of Wentworth, Sunningdale, Walton Heath, and Swinley Forest. It previously hosted the Turkish Airlines Open three times, between 2016 and 2018. Between the two clubs, Regnum’s golf offering is as strong as anything the Mediterranean coast has to show.

“Hosting such a prestigious tournament at our club, in collaboration with Turkish Airlines and the DP World Tour, is of great significance for both our course and Turkish golf as a whole.”

Hasan Ceylan, General Manager, National Golf Club

A New Chapter for Turkish golf

On the closing day of competition, Regnum Hotels Honorary President Fikret Öztürk and DP World Tour officials signed a formal agreement confirming that National Golf Club will host the Turkish Airlines Open again in 2027 and 2028. For Belek, the continuity matters enormously. A confirmed anchor event on the DP World Tour calendar through to the end of the decade gives the region a platform to build on, and the tour brings with it a global broadcast audience and a community of players, sponsors, media, and golf-passionate visitors who take note of where the best professionals choose to compete.

Over three decades of operation, National Golf Club has developed its infrastructure, its team, and its reputation in tandem with the growth of golf tourism across the region, earning consistent recognition from tour operators, players, and governing bodies alike. The agreement signed this week acknowledges not just the quality of a single event, but the sustained commitment that made that quality possible. Antalya already receives more than 16 million international visitors a year, and after a week like this, that number will only grow.

“We are incredibly proud to continue hosting the Turkish Airlines Open at National Golf Club as part of this extended agreement with the Turkish Golf Federation and the DP World Tour. This commitment is a strong reflection of the confidence in our course, our facilities, and our dedicated team. Since our establishment, we have played a key role in positioning Belek as one of Europe’s leading golf destinations, and hosting such a prestigious tournament further strengthens that reputation on the global stage.”

Hasan Ceylan, General Manager, National Golf Club

With a confirmed place on the DP World Tour calendar through to 2028, National Golf Club now has the continuity and visibility to attract the sport’s very best talent repeatedly, build lasting relationships with players and their families, and contribute meaningfully to the long-term growth of golf tourism in Turkey at a time when international interest in the region has never been greater.

Turkish Airlines and the route to elite sport

Turkish Airlines has been title sponsor of the Turkish Airlines Open since 2013, and in that time the event has welcomed a remarkable guest list of players, including Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Tyrrell Hatton, and Justin Rose to Antalya. The airline operates one of the broadest international route networks of any carrier, connecting passengers to destinations across six continents, with Istanbul serving as one of the world’s great aviation crossroads and the leading airport in Europe for direct connectivity.

With ambitions to carry 170 million passengers by 2033 and grow its fleet from over 500 aircraft today to over 800, the tournament sponsorship is very much part of a wider story about where the brand is headed, and its involvement has played a direct role in raising the visibility of golf in Turkey at every level of the game.

“Turkish Airlines is a global connector, and elite sport is one of the most powerful arenas in which that identity comes to life. Committing to a new three-year partnership signals exactly the kind of long-term thinking that defines Turkish Airlines as a brand.”

Turkish Airlines

For everyone who flew into Antalya during tournament week, the quality of arrival mattered. A smooth journey through a well-connected hub sets the tone for everything that follows, and Turkish Airlines delivered exactly that. The combination of a world-class sporting event, a celebrated destination and a carrier that can bring guests from almost anywhere on earth is one that tends to produce happy results for all.

The DP World Tour Pro-Am that opens tournament week has become one of the more anticipated days on the professional golf calendar, not only for the competition, but for what happens between the shots. Eighteen holes alongside a tour professional, with time to talk and no agenda beyond finishing the round, produces the kind of conversation that formal settings rarely allow. Turkish Airlines leverages the tournament as a platform to engage its most important partners and the communities in which it wants to deepen relationships, whether those are tourism boards, government stakeholders, or business leaders from markets around the world.

“Golf, as a sport, lends itself particularly well to this. The pace of the game, the environment, the format — they all create conditions for meaningful conversation in a way that very few other sporting contexts allow. When a business partner flies with us to Antalya, experiences the tournament at the level we create for our guests, and then flies home through Istanbul — that is a complete brand experience. It builds loyalty in a way that a rate card never can.”

Turkish Airlines

That approach aligns naturally with the DP World Tour’s international reach. The Turkish Airlines World Golf Cup, organised in 122 destinations across 83 countries, creates a community of amateur golfers connected to the brand at every level of the game. Every journalist who covers the event, every sponsor in the hospitality suite, every player who talks about their week in Antalya, each one becomes a new point of contact for a network that stretches from Tokyo to São Paulo to Johannesburg.

Backed by the best in the business

The DP World Tour’s relationship with Turkey has been built across more than a decade of competition at venues that have consistently delivered to the highest standard. The decision to extend the Turkish Airlines Open’s presence at National Golf Club for a further two years reflects an assessment not just of this week’s performance, but of everything the club, the region, and its partners have demonstrated over a sustained period. For a tour that stages events across six continents and works with some of the world’s most prestigious venues, that assessment carries considerable meaning.

“This week has once again shown what is possible when strong partners come together. We are grateful to the DP World Tour as tournament organiser, our title sponsor Turkish Airlines, and National Golf Club within Regnum Hotels Belek as our host venue, for delivering a tournament of this calibre on Turkish soil. The event also reminded us why the best players in the world keep returning to Belek with their families — the championship conditions, hospitality, and lifestyle here are, by their own accounts, unmatched anywhere.”

Yıldırım Demirören, President, Turkish Golf Federation

Turkish Golf Federation President Yıldırım Demirören acknowledged the role played by Spor Toto Teşkilat Başkanlığı, whose backing proved essential in making the event possible, and extended personal thanks to Minister of Youth and Sports Osman Aşkın Bak for support he described as instrumental throughout the planning and delivery of the tournament. More elite Turkish players competed alongside the world’s leading professionals this year than at any previous edition of the event, a development that reflects years of investment in domestic talent development by the Federation and its partners. With the DP World Tour broadcasting to more than half a billion households across more than 170 countries, those players performed on the largest stage the sport can offer.

“We are delighted to announce the Turkish Airlines Open will return to National Golf Club for the next two years. We have enjoyed working alongside Hasan Ceylan, Şener Ceylan and their incredible team during this year’s event, which has been a great success. I would also like to thank Turkish Airlines and the Turkish Golf Federation for their hard work in continuing to develop golf in Türkiye. This tournament has played such an important role in helping to achieve that and we look forward to continuing our partnership.”

Mark Casey, Director of Tournament Business, DP World Tour

National Golf Club, the DP World Tour, the Turkish Golf Federation, and Turkish Airlines each bring resources and reach that the others benefit from directly. The event has grown in stature year on year and now occupies a firm position among the most anticipated tournaments on the European tour calendar.

Regnum Carya

Regnum Carya Golf and Resort is one of those places that genuinely has it all, and pulls it off effortlessly. The resort’s 557 rooms, suites, and villas range from a generous 62 square metres up to the 3,500 square metre Crown Villa, all within a setting of pine forest and Mediterranean coastline. The accommodation spans a range of premium rooms with signature Regnum beds and Bvlgari toiletries to private villas designed to feel more like residential homes than hotel rooms, with space and privacy in equal measure.

The sports facilities are seriously impressive. FIFA-standard football fields, used exclusively by Real Madrid coaches, sit alongside tennis and padel courts, a modern fitness centre, and direct access to both Carya Golf Club and National Golf Club. For those arriving on tighter schedules, private aviation arrangements including helicopter access are available.

Restaurants covering Italian, Japanese, Thai, and Turkish cuisines sit alongside beachfront dining and the Alia Beach Club, a relaxed bohemian-style seaside retreat with gourmet food, cabanas, and live music. The 450-metre Blue Flag beach, the 20,000 square metre Aqualantis Waterpark, and a live entertainment calendar that has previously welcomed Jennifer Lopez, Dua Lipa, and Christina Aguilera ensure that guests are never short of something to do.

Regnum The Crown

Opened on 1 July 2025, Regnum The Crown is the group’s most recent addition to the Belek coastline and it arrived with considerable style. Designed as an all-suite destination, the main building offers 299 suites starting from 110 square metres and rising to the 1,700 square metre Crown Signature Suite. A further 44 suites and 15 villas are tucked into the Amber Lagoon area, surrounded by water features and landscaped gardens.

Every suite is beautifully finished, with travertine bathrooms, private balconies, Bvlgari amenities, and Nespresso machines throughout. The 5,000 square metre Revive Wellbeing and Spa Centre covers traditional Turkish hammam, advanced treatments, and a dedicated Longevity Centre focused on biohacking and personalised wellness, offerings that have become increasingly appealing to guests who want their time at a resort to leave them feeling better than when they arrived.

The rooftop is exceptional. An adults-only space and the first of its kind in Belek, it brings together the Seven Rooftop infinity pool, the Nuage restaurant, the Ash Cigar Lounge, and the Taurus fitness club, all with uninterrupted views across the Mediterranean. At ground level, the culinary offering spans Pan-Asian, Slavic, Levantine, Peruvian, Greek, Mexican, and Mediterranean concepts across restaurants, bars, beach dining, and a gourmet cafe. 

Golf guests have direct access to both Carya Golf Club and the National Golf Club, and between the 4,500 square metre Revive spa and the 1,500 square metre Amber Lagoon Spa, every wellness preference is well covered, from traditional hammam to holistic longevity therapies.

Belek and Beyond

With the 2026 edition now in the books and agreements in place for 2027 and 2028, the Turkish Airlines Open at the National Golf Club has every foundation needed to grow into one of the DP World Tour’s most anticipated stops.

Turkey has long had the natural ingredients to host events of this quality, thanks to it’s climate, the coastline, the culture and warm hospitality. With the Turkish Airlines Open confirmed at National Golf Club through to 2028, and the partnership between Regnum Hotels, the Turkish Golf Federation, the DP World Tour, and Turkish Airlines stronger than ever, Belek enters its next chapter as one of the world’s truly unmissable destinations for elite golf.