Saddlebrook Resort - Cypress/Pine

Beautiful course with nice layout. Greens and fairways were in great condition. Only negative is all the nonsense you have to go through just to get to the first tee. You first have to drive up to the main entrance of the hotel and then the valet has to take your clubs out of your vehicle and put them on an extended golf cart. You give your car keys to a young man who drives away with your car and parks it somewhere. You get on the extended cart and they drive you over to where you sign in at the pro shop. Then you walk over to get your cart. They then point you in the direction of the first tee and tell you to check in with the starter. We get to the starter booth and there is no one there. We eventually found the first tee and had a very enjoyable round. After our round we had to wait for the guy in the extended cart to show up again to take us and our clubs back to the hotel. He never showed up so we walked back and they brought our clubs back in a work cart. We then had to wait for the valet to go get my car. I’m glad we had lots of time to play our round.

Concession and food costs, drinks way too expensive. Confusing valet service. As for the course, (Saddlebrook 18) bring lots of balls; way too much water and off fairway brush/jungle. This is not a mid to higher handicap course, you will get punished for not being on fairways. Subdivision signage and directions are confusing to the course/clubhouse. This golf course could be a whole lot more golfer friendlier, from course maintenance (greens) being poor to punishing off the fairway shots.

This place realizes it has one thing keeping it alive. Two great golf courses

First time player, little confused about driving range location and parking (due to construction). Beautiful course, very well maintained considering area was in a drought, strategically placed sand traps make course challenging, great deal on Golf Now which includes driving range. My advice for newbies... get there early to figure out driving range location (accessible via long golf cart drive) so you can utilize it if desired before your round. Course is difficult if you cannot hit for distance, luckily my drives were great, unfortunately my irons sucked, lol. Would definitely recommend if you are playing good golf. Golf carts have GPS restrictions which at times seem ridiculous and annoying, pace was average to a little slow considering course was not overwhelmingly crowded.

The greens and fairways were in pretty good shape considering the time of year. The greens were soft and holding wedge shots. An overall good experience.

Greens rolled true, even in the rain! Great layout, great price. Can’t wait to play the other course as well as the Palmer Course again!

To be honest, we have now played both Palmer and saddlebrook courses. If you want a little more open area I would suggest Palmer. If you want to challenge I would suggest saddlebrook. Both are in excellent shape and both were highly enjoyable.

We are definitely coming back to enjoy both of them. There were two holes on the last three that had just a little bit of issues on the green that did not affect play at all. But you can tell they work hard to keep the course. Immaculate.

The course is always in consistent shape. Greens were rolling much faster than last time I played it. So that was an unexpected but welcome change. I love the quirky layout Mr Palmer cut out. The smaller greens put a premium on iron and wedge play. The speed teamed up with the undulating greens proved to be an awesome combination.

Even that course was not very crowded during the week we were behind a very slow foursome that never gave a twosome the chance to pass them , palmer course snack bar at 10 hole is closed most of the times it is tough to get 18 holes with no drinks

I know things change, but to see a landmark be modified into something different so the new owners can make a profit, I question???

I hope they can keep this course at the level we all want!

Couldn’t beat the price but the Palmer course is in much better shape. Since they plan on closing the course in the future it seems like they don’t want to put up too much money maintaining it.