Quinta Vip Golf Antalya Turkey

World-renowned Scottish golfer Colin Montgomerie, examined the golf course he helped design in Belek last tuesday on 21st October 2008.

Afterwards, he held a press conference about the facility. Last year, eight-time European Tour champion Montgomerie boosted his expanding course-design portfolio by helping to create a new $100 million golf and hotel complex in Turkey, joining forces with Papillon Hotels to build a facility on the coastal resort of Belek, Antalya. It includes an 18-hole championship golf course and 9-hole academy course, a 600-bed hotel and between 25 and 40 holiday villas.

Colin Montgomerie, probably the best European professional golf player, is sure that Turkey, led by Belek, will become the new Spain and Portugal of golf tourism.

"Turkey, and Belek, has the potential to become the very best in golf tourism," he said on tuesday in Belek, where he officially opened the Papillon Montgomerie Golf Course. "It is a new territory and there are many courses in a considerably small region that is bringing in large numbers of tourists."

  Montgomeire has a point when one recalls that the International Association of Golf Tour Operators, or IAGTO, earlier this year voted Turkey to be "the best golf destination in Europe 2008."

  According to the legendary Scottish player, dubbed Monty, what makes Belek unique throughout the golfing world is its climate "We are here in October, and the weather is fantastic," he said, smiling under a warm Mediterranean sun. "Back in western Europe and the U.K., it's all rainy and windy."