Saddlebrook Resort - Oak/Cypress

This course is inside a resort that you have to drive over two miles, once you get into the resort, to get to the front of the resort hotel,. You then have to valet your vehicle. You pull up to the front of the hotel entrance drop off your car to a valet, put your golf shoes on in the entrance, and then have to carry your clubs at least 400 yards to the golf shop. You then have to drive your golf cart all through the resort to get to the first tee. This course has a lot of blind tee shots and trouble in front of you. The carts are equipped with much needed gps, especially playing the course the first time. It's impossible to know how far to hit it on some occasions or where to hit it on others. After being told our gps would work once we got to the course, again driving forever through the resort to get to the first tee, our gps wouldn't work. At this point we couldn't drive back to the pro shop because people were stacking up behind us. We call the pro shop, no answer. We called during the whole round, no answer. We finally called the hotel and got a really nice person who actually got a hold of someone in the golf shop, after a long wait on hold, who said they would bring us a new cart. They never did. We called back, having to go through the resort hotel operator again who got us in touch with Raj, the golf manager. He didn't do anything. No apologies, no percentage off our next round, nothing. Nobody but the receptionist for the resort acted like they really cared. The funny thing is, I read where the resort and hotel were closed before, we went. They are open but should be closed for lack of caring and the goofy set up they have to actually get to the golf course once you arrive.

Course is in good shape. Pace of play right at 4 hours. Will definitely play here again

The course was in excellent shape for this time of year. Greens were full but a little long. Fairways were in good condition also. It was as pleasure to play.

Staff was ready and very helpful..course was receptive to big hits and approach...green were fun...

Had a nice time playing this course despite it having rained heavily the day before and it was cart path only. The pace of play was slow because of that. One group let us play through but then we got stuck behind another group that had an old timer who could barely walk. It took him 5 minutes to walk from the cart to his ball and back after hitting it 30 yards. We ended up skipping a hole to play through as they didn't bother offering to let us. Would like to come back and play again with better conditions.

Greens were always good when I played previously. They ran about 7 stimp. Were inconsistent and brutal to put on. Fortunately got it on a hot deal so I don’t feel completely bad about it. Played the Palmer course last week and it was 100% better!

The day was very wet but the course was mostly playable. Cart path only. Fairways and greens good shape. Valet only is a little inconvenient.