| A golfers dream comes true! Launched earlier this year in January the construction of the Pine Bay Golf Hotel in connection with a luxury 18 hole golf course has finally started in Sarigerme. This project represents the start of a serious phase of golf and tourism investment.
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 bloomed 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 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 and modern 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 a 18 hole golf course, set in an area of 500 acres stretching from the Dalaman creek behind the Pegasus Hotel towards the Akdeniz Cooperative in Fethiye. 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 under way 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 build. 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 on that area.
The golf course was designed from 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.
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