Saltleaf Golf Preserve - The Preserve

First time playing Saltleaf. Course was very well maintained, staff were welcoming and friendly. Played in the early afternoon and finished in 3 hours but it is not yet season here in Naples. Only drawback is that the course is not walkable due to the distance between a few holes.

My 3rd time playing at SaltLeaf. I’d come back here every day if I could. Conditions are amazing, course is beautiful. No houses to play around. Pace of play is quick. Staff is great. Locker room+ shower is a huge plus. Great experience overall.

Todd at the course should be fired immediately. I’m a disabled golfer and was not notified by him of paths only. I cannot make it on a course. I was first aware of this when pulling to the 1st tee when the cart screen read cart path only. I asked the player assistant and he confirmed it. He also confirmed that I was about the 3rd or 4th person who wasn’t advised by Todd. I called the proshop and asked for a handicap flag or a limited cart release. He flatly denied my request. I asked him to put it in writing that he’s denying my disabled rights. He said he’s not putting anything in writing. I struggled around (not being able to play half the round) as I couldn’t leave my customers to themselves. What happened here is that this person refused to respect the American Disability Act. I STRONGLY suggest if you have any ailments you find a more caring concerned course. Saltleaf will be addressed to this situation exactly how you can guess. P.S. Every person on staff that I spoke to was quick to admit that he’s an egregious individual. TO BE CONTINUED.

Played this course on a Monday, absolutely stellar conditions and I paid only $70. Absolute steal for the price and will definetly play again soon. Staff was very friendly.

Very playable and fun course

SL is a great course. Given that it was recently punched and thatched, it was still very playable; not to mention the discounted rate. While most courses in the area do 7 minute tee time intervals, SL does 10 minutes! This really helps for a good pace of play. Highly recommend the course. L

The course was in excellent condition from tee box to the greens. Great pace of play.

Wonderful course layout. Pace a play was very slow, we skipped two holes to get in front of two very slow groups. Ranger was nonexistent. The course is extremely dry and currently it’s the rainy season. This makes no sense. The greens were just OK and the fringe is nothing but sand. They need to get this course in tiptop shape if they expect to charge $349 around come late fall.

The course was easy to navigate, the cards had great digital technology, the Clubhouse offered great setting and delicious food, awesome service throughout our experience there.

What a great venue.

Fantastic clubhouse

Super friendly staff

Wonderful course layout

Unfortunately the course condition didn’t match any of the above. The course needs to be closed and resodded. You expect a course with this reputation, location, adjoined with Ritz Carlton residence status, price, etc to be pristine. Well, it’s not. I hit more shots from patches of dirt than I did grass. And that’s from the tee through the middle of fairways.

And to warm up hitting into a giant net is not inspiring!

Found Saltleaf by accident last year while on vacation. I loved it. So when I came back down again this year I wanted to play it again. This time I took my daughter who is junior golfer. At check in everything looked the same as last year. Rates were the same and did apply a small discount for my daughter. Got our cart and headed to the starter. Starter was nice and was very personable. Got on the first tee and hit down the fairway. Didn’t know that would be a terrible spot to hit it. That is when the surprise came. Every fairway was in terrible shape. There was no grass and you were playing on dirt. There wasn’t any mention of the course conditions from the 5 different golf staff we talked too. It was very disappointing that this was never mentioned. I enjoyed the course so much last year that this may have not been a deterrent for me to play this year. Being supprised was a big let down.

I hear that it might go private in the near future. If able to play on it next year, I will give a 3rd shot.