Played this course 8/30/09 in a 3-some. The course is a little bit of a drive north of metro Tucson, but ended up being well worth it. The facilities are still a little bit spartan, their operating ... Continue »

Played this course 8/30/09 in a 3-some. The course is a little bit of a drive north of metro Tucson, but ended up being well worth it. The facilities are still a little bit spartan, their operating the pro shop out of a trailer, but the course was a lot of fun. This is a course that will someday be surrounded by a housing development that has yet to be built. So the course is wide open by housing development standards. I got the sense that the front and back 9's were designed by different people. The front 9 is pretty straight forward while the back 9 has numerous holes with split fairways, doglegs, and blind shots. The greens were in great shape, they held shots, and putted quick and true. The bunkers were in very good shape, with plenty of sand that wasn't all tromped down by wear and age. The course isn't all that long, and certainly isn't super hard, but it is a lot of fun. I played with my wife and 84 year old mother in law, and they really liked the fact that the forward tees remove a lot of the forced carries found so often in local desert courses. This is a fun course, and I'll definately make the drive "off the beaten path" to play it again. I recommend you take the time to discover Saddlebrooke Ranch before the housing development surrounds it.