Saddlebrook at Saddlebrook Golf & Tennis Resort

The course was nice and staff was friendly. A huge resort community. It seemed most people were there for other amenities. The property has a magnanimous amount of tennis courts and resort style pool. We didn’t use the amenities and not sure what additional costs (if any) would be incurred.

Positives: The course was in decent condition. The pace of play was great. It was just me and a friend and we were not paired with anyone else. The first 4 holes we had no one in front of us, but we eventually ran into a foursome. As to be expected, the pace slowed down slightly given that there were just 2 of us. But it was still not a terrible pace. It’s possible there was a tournament in the morning that we caught the tail end of. Not sure.

Negatives: The access to drinks around the course was terrible. Especially given that it was early Sunday afternoon. There was not a cart path attendant and limited stations for water, ball washing, etc. NOTE: IF YOU WANT TO HIT THE RANGE, GET THERE VERY EARLY. The range is nowhere near the clubhouse or first tee box. You must drive through neighborhoods on a golf cart (about 10 mins).

Overall, a good course with abundant wildlife. Course was not “premier”, but definitely playable conditions. I would play again.

Tees re growing
fairways playable
greens grainy but medium speed i would guess 8.5 on stimp
Overall nice track cant wait to play again.
ONLY issue is long walk to pro shop if no shuttle which we didnt get after 10m mins.
Shot 36 on the back.
Staff went overboard to get us a tee time swapped us from a course that had a tourny to the better course Palmer, so for staff great...

Nice course, but greens need a lot of attention (weeds)! Fairways are average. Need to bring the course conditions up to the price we are paying!

Nice course, unfortunately some golfers just lack respect and drive the golf carts in soft spots which are clearly visible and ruin parts of the fairways.

Great course , great condition but fairly difficult course. Plenty of water and narrow fairways.
Over all would play again 👍👍

Love this course..very scenic . Great condition..
Would play here more if the price was more reasonable for local florida residents...

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.

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 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.

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.

My fellow golfers and I love the course. The pace was great and the course was in good condition. They have a very friendly staff.