Green Fees in Rhodes: What It Costs to Play in 2026
Rhodes keeps golf simple: one course, one fee conversation, one decision. Afandou Golf Course, the island's only 18 holes, charges about 90 euro for a full round in 2026, and its summer offers bundle clubs and a trolley into a price recent visitors put nearer 69 euro. Here is exactly what the island costs, what you get for it, and why the answer is about to change.
The short answer
Afandou Golf Course is the whole story. Designed by Donald Harradine and open for play since 1973, it runs as a par 73 along Afandou Beach, about 20 minutes down the east coast from Rhodes Town, and it is the only 18 hole course on the island. In 2026 a full round costs around 90 euro at the gate, nine holes runs about 45 euro, and the club's summer packages, sold as one price covering the green fee, a rental set and a pull cart, have been reported by recent visitors at close to 69 euro. By Greek standards that is the budget end of the spectrum: a round at the Costa Navarino resorts on the mainland can cost more than double.
Two house rules matter more than the price. First, Afandou asks that you be a golfer: bring evidence of a handicap or a recently completed Green Card, the European proficiency certificate, because complete beginners are routed to the academy rather than the first tee. Second, tee times are barely a thing. The club only insists on advance booking if you want one of its small fleet of golf carts; walkers can largely turn up and play, which suits the unhurried rhythm of the place. Conditions are honest rather than manicured, dry and firm through the summer, and the pricing reflects that. The wildcard is the future: the club has announced that Jack Nicklaus will renovate and redesign the course within the next two to three years to bring it up to modern playing standards, and when that work lands, today's fee will look like a souvenir.
The 2026 fee table
| Round | 2026 indicative cost and notes |
|---|---|
| Afandou, 18 holes | Around 90 euro per recent visitor reports for the 2026 season. The island's only full round: par 73, Donald Harradine, 1973, laid out along Afandou Beach. Walkers rarely need a tee time |
| Afandou, 9 holes | Around 45 euro. A sensible option in high summer, when the heat builds fast after mid morning and the course plays hard and dry |
| Summer package offers | The club's seasonal offers bundle the green fee, a rental set of clubs and a pull cart into one price, reported near 69 euro by visitors in the current season. The best value way to play if you travel without clubs |
| Golf carts and extras | Cart availability is limited and a cart round must be booked ahead. Proof of golfing ability, a handicap or a recent Green Card, is required to go out; the on site academy handles everyone else |
Fees indicative for the 2026 season. Check tee times · Browse stays.
How to read the Rhodes equation
Rhodes is not a golf destination in the way the Algarve or Belek is a golf destination, and pricing it that way misses the point. It is a sun and history island, one of the best in the Mediterranean, that happens to keep an honest, walkable, cheerfully priced course 20 minutes from the old town. The right plan treats Afandou as the trip's recurring pleasure rather than its centerpiece: a morning round early in the week, the package offer if you flew without clubs, and a return round before you leave, all for less than a single round costs at the marquee mainland resorts. Spring and autumn give the best turf and temperatures; July and August golf is for early starters who do not mind fairways the color of toast.
If the trip is built around the golf itself, Greece rewards a split itinerary. Pair the island with the Costa Navarino resorts in the Peloponnese, the country's true championship cluster, and use our Greece destination guide and the ranked verdicts in the best golf courses in Greece to shape the route. The Greece golf holidays page covers how the packages and pricing work end to end. And keep one eye on the news from Afandou: a Nicklaus redesign on a beachfront site, on an island with this much tourist gravity, is the kind of project that rewrites a fee table overnight.
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Rhodes green fee questions
How much does golf cost in Rhodes?
Budget around 90 euro for 18 holes at Afandou in the 2026 season, with nine holes around 45 euro. The club's summer offers bundle the green fee, a rental set and a pull cart into one price that recent visitors have reported near 69 euro. Always confirm directly before booking.
How many golf courses are there in Rhodes?
One. Afandou Golf Course, a par 73 of 1973 by Donald Harradine along Afandou Beach about 20 minutes south of Rhodes Town, is the island's only 18 hole course, so every golfing day on Rhodes starts and ends there.
Do I need a handicap certificate to play Afandou?
You need to show you are a golfer: a handicap or a recently completed Green Card, the European proficiency certificate. Complete beginners are directed to the on site academy, whose training programs finish with a first round on the course.
When is the best time to play golf in Rhodes?
Spring and autumn. April, May, October and early November give warm days without the July and August heat that leaves the course at its driest. Summer golf works with an early start, water and realistic expectations about firm, sunburned fairways.
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Researched and written by the GolfForKings editorial desk. Rates and access terms verified June 2026 against published club information and current visitor reports. Last reviewed June 2026.