The notion of teeing-off from the roof of a villa certainly was not part of the golf course design blueprints submitted by the company founded by five-time Open Champion Peter Thomson

But that’s the scenario staring at the 78 players teeing up in this week’s Turkish Airlines Open on the Regnum Carya Resort course in Belek.

The course was officially opened in late 2008 and it was not to some years later villas were constructed, and with one built over the then championship tee.

For 51 week’s a year the hole from the very back tee measures 391-meters but with the temporary construction of an artificially grassed tee on the roof of the villa it has added 32-meters to the hole.

And from the ‘Black’ tee at the 16^th to the temporary rooftop tee it means competitors having to walk past a swimming pool in front of the villa and then climbing temporary steps constructed against the side of the villa to get to the roof.

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England’s Lee Westwood is no stranger to heights having joined the likes of Henrik Stenson, Martin Kaymer and Justin Rose three years ago in hitting golf balls from the 90-meter high roof of the Atlantis Dubai Hotel to a floating green some 210-meters away.

“You want to be sober,” said Westwood laughing.

“It’s a new one, isn’t it. I’m not great with heights. Having said that, I’ve hit off from a hotel in Dubai before and a few other places and been quite successful.

“So it’s fairly interesting. We flew drones off it last night, so it gave us a little bit of a feel of how it’s going to play. It looks as quite a tough tee shot.

“My caddie actually gave me the yardage to carry the pool last night just below the tee and it’s like 26 yards past the pool, past the deep end.

“It’s not often you get a yardage like that. But no, it’s very different. I think it’s quite good fun.

“I’m not sure I’d want to be staying in that villa this week with 78 golfers jumping around on the roof hitting golf balls (laughing).”

It was the same view expressed by Austrian No. 1 Bernd Wiesberger.

“It’s a first for me as I’ve never hit off the roof of someone’s house before, so it’s something different and I like what they’ve done,” he said.

“I’m not sure if anyone is staying in the villa or if we will be disturbing anyone with the earlier tee times but hopefully the organisers will have taken care of that.”

And triple Major winning Padraig Harrington has given the rooftop tee his thumbs up.

Harrington was the first golfer to record a par at the world’s longest par three – the 400 meter, 19^th hole – and with the tee sits precariously on the cliff edge of South Africa’s Hanglip Mountain, and where competitors are conveyed from tee to the African continent shaped green in a helicopter.

“I like it and for all us playing this week it’s just an elevated back tee,” said Harrington.

“I have hit off places like the side a mountain in South Africa but then that was a little bit intimidating but here in Turkey that’s not the case.

“It’s a nice tee shot where you get to look down on the fairway and it certainly adds to the hole.”