SaddleBrooke Ranch GC
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4.2
1902 Reviews (1902)
5 Stars
598
4 Stars
872
3 Stars
258
2 Stars
103
1 Stars
71
Conditions
4.2
Value
4.4
Layout
4.3
Friendliness
4.3
Pace
4.3
Amenities
3.9
90.3%
Recommend this course
1649 out of 1902 reviews
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4.2
38 Reviews (38)
5 Stars
18
4 Stars
13
3 Stars
4
2 Stars
3
1 Stars
0
Conditions
4.3
Value
4.3
Layout
4.3
Pace
4.2
Amenities
3.8
StaffFriendliness
4.3
86.8%
Recommend this course
33 out of 38 reviews
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4.3
66 Reviews (66)
5 Stars
33
4 Stars
22
3 Stars
7
2 Stars
3
1 Stars
1
Conditions
4.3
Value
4.5
Layout
4.4
Pace
4.3
Amenities
3.9
StaffFriendliness
4.3
90.9%
Recommend this course
60 out of 66 reviews
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Course Highlights
Wide forgiving fairways and a flexible tee selection make this long, fun layout accessible to golfers of all skill levels. Rounds move at a brisk pace and the course delivers outstanding value for money.

About

Holes 18
Type Semi-Private/Community
Par 72
Length 6875 yards
Slope 130
Rating 71.8

Located in the North Tucson area, SaddleBrook Ranch Golf Club borders the Santa Catalina Mountains. The course meanders through the high Sonoran desert, incorporating natural washes into the design and providing stunning mountain views from almost every hole. Abundant desert flora and fauna further enhance the rugged, gently rolling terrain. The golf course offers a mix of challenging holes and player-friendly features, resulting in a layout with several interesting risk-reward opportunities that will appeal to low and high handicappers equally. The player-friendly fairways are generous, allowing beginners to feel comfortable with ample room off the tees and rewarding thoughtful play. There are also carefully placed mounds, hollows, and bunkers along the large, receptive greens that provide opportunities to recover an errant shot. The golf course is made even more versatile with five different sets of tees.

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Course Details

Year Built 2007
Golf Season Year round
Architect Tom Schroeder Design (2007)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes
GPS No
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Metal Spikes Allowed No
Dress code Appropriate golf attire.

Food & Beverage

Snacks

Available Facilities

Spa

Available Activities

Swimming, Billiards

Available Sports

Tennis

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Reviews

4.2
1902 Reviews (1902)

What Golfers Are Saying

The 19th Hole is Great For:
Drinks 31
Patio Dining 19
Brunch 17
Course Challenges Include:
Forced Carries 82
Bunkers 81
Thick Rough 21
This course/club is great for:
Locals 97
Seniors 86
Wildlife/ Scenic Views 60
This Course's Location is:
Worth the Drive 98
In the 'Burbs 42
Convenient to the City 16

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Reviews 14
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Good course

Course was in really good shape, greens are good and receptive. Pace was good. They had a ranger who actually was out and having people keep pace! Staff was friendly. Range in great shape, short game area in great shape.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 21
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 15
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Average
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 28
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Nice October Morning

An early tee time and sunny day made it a pleasure to play here. Unfortunately they started us off playing the back nine for some reason, and the number ten hole is a challenge even when you're in a rhythm, so it was a difficult start. Fast and hard greens with some tough pin placements, but overall in good condition.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 11
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Good conditions, fair price

This course redid their greens this summer and they were only put into play 3 weeks ago. They are perfect.

Conditions Good
Value Average
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 28
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Newly opened greens

Course is really quite good, and the newly done greens are challenging, but pretty cons.

Good job ok over all!

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 63
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Slow slow slow

Took 5 hours to play the round. Triple stacked on some tee boxes. No marshal the whole round. Also no cart refreshments.

Conditions Good
Value Fair
Layout Good
Friendliness Fair
Pace Poor
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 13
Handicap Don't know
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Windy weather
Used cart

Review of Saddlebrooke Ranch

The course was good but one hole was cart path only and needed a lot of work. I was not happy that there was no ball washers on the course. Hope fully they will correct this.

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 13
Handicap 25+
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

Our round at Saddlebacke

We had a really fun time, enjoyed the course. It was our fist time golfing here, We were paired with another 2some, very nice gentlemen that made our round even more fun.

The one thing we were disappointed about was no beverage/snack cart, and the snack shack at the turn was closed at 2:36 when we got there, so no water, snacks, beverages available- on a Friday afternoon. Would have been good to know before we T'd off. We would've purchased before we T'd off on #!. Also the bathroom at the turn was closed. Not very user friendly for our experience (T time as 12:45)

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Poor
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 115
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 250 Contributor
Previously Played

Looking good for winter

I’ve played this course (10 months ago). They shut down to redo the greens, and the greens are back!!!

Firm, but smooth, and fast. You will be hard pressed to play on better, overlooking their firmness. Tee boxes reseeded and wonderful. Fairways close cut (not reseeded, but still green. May go dormant later in the year and may be painted (I’m ok with that). Sand fluffy, no rocks, exceptional.

Crotchety pro shop guy (normally could care less) he goes out of his way to be “difficult”.

My concern is golf, and the golf was very good, and impressive.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Fantastic experience!

My wife and I played for the first time on 10/11, and it was such a fantastic experience! The course was absolutely breathtaking. The course itself was a good challenge(I am quite the amateur golfer). We had one sour interaction with a staff member, but everyone else was above and beyond with their friendly service. All in all, I would give our experience a 10/10 and would recommend this course to anyone!

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 11
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Open in October

Here in Az. October is reseeding or overseeding month and most courses are either closed, in awful condition, or open only with severe restrictions (like cart path only for the entire course). This course was in good shape and only a few holes were cart path only. That's good enough for October.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Played On
Reviews 11
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Previously Played

The greens have been closed all summer. No reason for it and still charge full rate. T off new this and made no mention. T off golfnow or easy links whatever theycall themselves Is just a monopoly on golf t times. You have to jump through all there hoops to get any deal. Most of the time you don't get a deal, very terrible site now. It used to be the best.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Friendliness Poor
Pace Fair
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 19
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart

Had We Known

SBR is one of our favorite courses to play. Unfortunately we did not know that temporary greens were in use and we did not see a notice on GolfNow or we might have played somewhere else. Given that, we will return to SBR when the normal greens are in play. Again, this is one of our favorite courses and we will return. Average rating due to the temp greens.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 64
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Getting closer to great!

Still waiting for the redone greens to open! Everything is coming in to place. Nice green fairways and rough. Practice putting and chipping greens are still closed. The course should be really nice come the first week of October! Can't wait!!!!

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 14
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Course has temporary greens this course is always under consideration

Conditions Fair
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Fair
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 63
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
First Time Playing

Wrong time to play

First time to play there. The course had temporary greens. Could get a good feel for the course. Would like to play it again when greens are open.

Conditions Fair
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 6
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Not ready for prime time

Temp greens til Oct. Cart path on 4 holes (par 4s and 5s). Extremely rude staff . Act like you are getting a favor to play.. Still $25 on hot deals. Right now play elsewhere in Tucson for $20. Won't go back till whole course us open. No value.

Conditions Fair
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Poor
Pace Good
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