Chelsea Tee Time Reservation System for SaddleBrooke Ranch Tee Times:

On Wednesday, September 1st, 2021 we will be moving to the new User Interface for our Chelsea Tee Time Reservation System. This will allow us to take advantage of the latest software programming updates and the new Chelsea 2.0 mobile app. Additionally, the new interface is designed to automatically adjust the display layout to the screen dimensions on whatever device you are using at the time.

Current users may need to perform the following steps to access the new interface:

1. Delete any “Favorites” and/or “Bookmarks” on your device that you have for Chelsea.
2. Open your web browser (e.g. Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, etc.)
3. Navigate to the “SB Ranch Golf Club” Chelsea website by typing “http://sbranch.chelseareservations.com” in address section of your web browser.
4. Steps 1 and 2 are necessary to establish a new Session ID that will allow access to the new user interface.
5. Recreate a Bookmark for the new interface webpage.

Please contact the Pro Shop (520) 818-6403 if you are having any difficulties.

Golf Course Update August 16th, 2021

Our fairways are looking better every week! We ask golfers to support this progress by filling not only divots in the fairway, but also on the tee boxes. Use sand which is available throughout the golf course in brown bins, located at the tee area on holes #1, #6 and #10, and the restroom at #14/#15.

Communications Update: A few weeks ago, the community’s email service was expanded, allowing the pro shop to send out The Ranch Forecaddie and Course Updates directly to the email subscription group. Subscription choices were also expanded so you can opt to get either publication or both! We automatically added everyone subscribed to the Forecaddie to the Update subscription, but you can cancel that at any time if it becomes “info overload” for you. Speaking of subscriptions, we have almost 2200 emails signed up!!

Subscription Sign Up: If someone wants to sign up for either the Forecaddie, or the Course Update, have them follow these directions:

1. Go to the SBR HOA website – saddlebrookeranchhoa.org
2. Click on the Communications tab.
3. Scroll down to “Subscribing to Newsletters”
4. Click on link provided and fill out the form provided.

The newly sprigged greens continue to fill in. Maintenance has been fertilizing and topdressing to promote further growth and begin the process of smoothing the surface. Cutting height is now just under 1/4”! The USGA visited and was very impressed with the grow in! We also learned another aspect of how to tell when the greens are ready for play, thatch mat thickness. The USGA recommends a 1/2” mat so the greens can hold up to play. The front nine is at 1/4″ and the back nine is at” 1/8”. It will take an estimated 6 weeks for the mat on both nines to get to 1/2”.

Holes #9, #10, #13 (the second half only), and #15 are cart path only to assist the turf recover. Those with handicap flags may enter the fairway on those holes.

The ice and water machine at the pro shop has been repaired and is chock full of ice!

 

Robson Golf Links Program:

As a Resident of a SaddleBrooke Ranch Adult Lifestyle Golf Community, you can play golf at all seven Robson Resort Communities across Arizona and Texas at the low Resident rate.* Get your golf buddies and take a road trip! Enjoy great weather and championship golf while you tee it up at all of the Robson Resort Golf Clubs. Expect the home course treatment because you always have the home course honors at any Robson Resort Community.

• PebbleCreek
• Robson Ranch
• The Preserve at SaddleBrooke
• Quail Creek
• Robson Ranch Texas

*Tee times must be made by phone or in person and will be based on space available.

WELCOME TO SBR GOLF

Making the most of its beautiful setting, the SaddleBrooke Ranch Golf Club 18-hole championship golf course is located on a mesa with breathtaking vistas of the natural desert landscape. Drop by your home course, where the golf staff greets you by name, and enjoy a day with friends on the links.

Designed by the Tom Schroeder team, the 18-hole championship course meanders through lush green desert terrain with natural washes and mountain views from almost every direction. Mounds, hollows and bunkers surrounding large, receptive greens offer an enjoyable challenge for novices as well as avid golfers.

31280 S. Amenity Drive
Oracle, Arizona 85623

Contact:
Pro shop: 520-818-6403
After Hours Cell: 520-561-1196
Chelsea: https://sbranch.chelseareservations.com
Your Chelsea home page has access to tee times and events as well as the golf event and maintenance calendars, special event news, rate sheets and annual/play card applications, seasonal daily frost delay info and golf starting times, and greens committee minutes.
SBRMGA: www.sbrmga.org
SBRWGA: www.sbrwga.org
Greens Committee: sbrgreencommittee@gmail.com

Hours:
Pro Shop Hours – Open 30 minutes before the first tee time and 1 hour before shotguns. Soft close at 3:30pm as staff go out to check the course carrying the pro shop cell phone (520-561-1196).
Staff is available until one hour before sunset.
First tee time: 10-1 to 10-14: 7:00 10-15 to 10-31: 7:15
Morning Shotgun: 8:00
Afternoon Shotgun: 1:00
Rate Periods: 10-1 to 10-31: Prime 7:00 – 11:22 Midday 11:30 – 1:22 Twilight 1:30 – 2:52, Super Twilight 3:00 – Sunset

SaddleBrooke Ranch Golf Community Course Construction Updates:

• The golf course and practice facility greens surfaces will be replaced with Mini-Verde in a process that will overlap this spring and summer. The process will take approximately 5 months to complete. Annual golfers will receive a refund of the fees for those 5 months in the sum of $1,100. On Monday, May 3rd, Annuals were be suspended and may play the course with temporary greens paying a green fee. Green fees will be reduced while temporary greens are being used. Suspended annuals will pay $10 and residents will pay $15. Chelsea points will stay as they are. In October when the new greens are ready, all suspended annuals will be restored; and green fees will revert to posted rates.
• Monday, May 3rd we converted to all 18 holes having temporary greens. This will last until the new greens are grown in and ready for play. We expect the greens will be ready by the first of October. This date is variable due to weather conditions. Temp green course yardages are posted on Chelsea in a printable format. Most holes will play an average of 50 yards shorter. A spreadsheet with the changes for each hole is posted in printable form on your Chelsea home page.
• During the course of the summer the fairways will be aerified 2-3 times and will also be heavily top dressed with sand.
• Speaking of sand, the practice green bunker has been reshaped giving it a more greenside appearance, while also helping keep sand off of the green. The range field end will still allow for fairway bunker style shots out onto the range field. All the sand was removed while the bunker was reshaped, so it now has completely fresh sand as well!
• On May 12th the re-sloped area on #16 fairway was sodded to about 80%. The remaining 20% was sodded on Friday, May 14th, along with the tees on #16, #18, #3, and the remaining Golf tees. The drainage work areas were also sodded. Finally, the collars on greens #1-9 were sodded. On May 24th and 25th, the front nine greens were sprigged and the collars on the back nine greens and practice greens were sodded. The back nine greens and practice greens are expected to be sprigged during the second week of June.
• Once all the greens have been sprigged, the construction crew will leave. Our maintenance crew will then continue the grow-in process and also continue restoring the fairway and rough surfaces. We hope to improve the fairways and rough areas enough to allow them to be good dormant playing surfaces this winter.

Courtesy of the Golf Caddie

Website:

Welcome to SaddleBrooke Ranch Golf Club!

 

 

 

 

Oracle State Park is a 4,000-acre wildlife refuge in the northern Catalina Mountains. The park offers day-use picnic areas and over 15 miles of trails for use by hikers, mountain bikers, and equestrians. A section of the Arizona Trail crosses through the park.  And it is a designated International Darek Sky Park.

Oracle State Park also serves as a Center for Environmental Education and provides programming for all ages. Interactive programs for school groups are offered by reservation. These programs are conducted along trails, so students learn about habitat ands interrelationships between plants, animals, and people.

The Kannally Ranch was donated to The Defenders of Wildlife (DOW), a non-profit organization, in 1976. The will of Lucille Kannally gave the 4000-acre ranch to DOW with the stipulation that the property be perpetually used as a wildlife reserve. The DOW held this property (called the Oracle Wildlife Refuge) for ten years. For most of the time, the Oracle Education Project, under the leadership of Bob Hernbrode, utilized the Kannally Ranch House as its base of operation for a variety of environmental education programs.

Neil Kannally left his home in Illinois in 1902, seeking sunshine at a tuberculosis health resort in the hills of Oracle, 38 miles north of downtown Tucson.

As he grew stronger, Kannally, 23, hatched a plan to bring out his brother, Lee. In 1903, the two purchased the 1880s McCarius homestead on 160 acres of pristine land once inhabited by Hohokam and Apaches, a perfect spot for cattle ranching.

Three other siblings — 30-year-old matriarch Molly, brother Vincent and 7-year-old Lucile — soon followed, and the thriving cattle ranch grew to nearly 50,000 acres.

The old adobe homestead was surely cramped, so the brothers added on to the original house, and later built cottages for Molly and Lucy.

It was not until 1929 that this second-generation Irish Catholic family built an architectural jewel of a ranch house in the heart of what is now Oracle State Park, a dramatic, four-level Mediterranean-Revival style home with Moorish influences, patterned after Italianate villas of the 1920s.

By the 1950s, the family sold off much of the land — including what would become the town of San Manuel — to Magma Copper Co.

The Kannallys, who lived in the home the remainder of their days and never married or had children, are long gone, buried at Holy Hope Cemetery. Gone, too, are family historical records, destroyed at the request of the family upon the death of the last surviving Kannally, Lucy (Lucille), who died in 1976 at age 78.

 

 

The active adult lifestyle at SaddleBrooke Ranch just keeps getting better with new amenities! Ed’s Dogs is now open. This casual dining spot is sure to become a favorite for a quick bite to eat and reflects a piece of Robson Communities Founder’s, Ed Robson, childhood memories.

Back in 1942, Ed Robson was a 12-year-old boy growing up in Arlington, Massachusetts. Like most kids, he spent his days rooting for Ted Williams, riding a Schwinn, and drinking 5-cent cokes.

As an aficionado of hot dogs, young Ed would sneak under the subway turnstiles, saving his dime, to buy a Howard Johnson’s style hot dog in Harvard Square after working up an appetite practicing in the choir at Emanuel Episcopal Church on Newberry Street in downtown Boston.

Now, these weren’t just any dogs, they were very tasty! Those skinny and delicious franks were delivered grilled on a toasted bun which left just enough room for extra relish, chopped onions, and a little special mustard.

Times may have changed, but these enjoyable hot dogs haven’t.

Ed’s Dogs features delicious hot dogs with special names. Many of the hot dogs on the menu are named after one of Mr. Robson’s treasured canines he has had through the years.

This new casual dining option, Ed’s Dogs, serves a variety of gourmet hot dogs like the “Mickey” with a special blend of pork with roasted green chilies, pepper jack cheese, special sauce and a toasted classic bun in addition to mouthwatering hamburgers such as the “Duke” with two quarter pound patties with your choice of cheese and all the fixings. Ed’s Dogs also offers a variety of beverages including popular brews from the Ranch House Brewery. See what else Ed’s Dogs has on the menu

Ed’s Dogs is conveniently located with incredible views across the lake and golf course. This new amenity is part of an amenity expansion that is currently underway. Once completed, this expansion will include two additional tennis courts bringing the community total to six, four bocce ball courts and a new ramada near the west end of the bocce ball courts that includes storage for bocce and tennis equipment and supplies.

After challenging a neighbor to a friendly tennis match or hosting out of town visitors, Ed’s Dogs is a great new amenity that you are sure to enjoy!

 

The combination of climate, a preserved natural environment, and one-of-a-kind desert vistas invite you to enjoy a full, active lifestyle 365 days a year. Walking and jogging paths connect your home to neighbors, parks, and some of the best golf courses in Arizona. Hiking and biking trails provide everything from a casual ride to a challenging and exhilarating trek along with equestrian tracts that have been traveled for decades.

More than 50 miles of hiking and biking trails wind through Dove Mountain and the surrounding Preserve ranging in elevation from 2,800 feet all the way up to 4,300 feet. While you could spend weeks discovering the wonders of the Sonoran Desert and never cover the same ground twice, returning to an old favorite never loses its thrill. And it’s all right outside your door

For a map of the hiking trails in Dove Mountain – click below:

349707 TOM Trails Map v1e

 

 

 

The Reid Park Zoo, founded in 1967, is a 24-acre (9.7 ha) city-owned and operated non-profit zoo located within Reid Park in Tucson, Arizona. The zoo features more than 500 animals. It was unofficially established in 1965 by Gene Reid, the parks and recreation director at the time.

Reid Park Zoo consists of four zones that are organized by the types of habitats and animals they house. The Adaptation Zone houses animals such as the grizzly bear and Aldabra giant tortoise, the South America zone houses animals such as the jaguar and spectacled bear, the Asian zone features the tiger, and the African Animals zone features animals such as the lion and giraffe. The African Animals zone also houses a 7-acre expansion (Expedition Tanzania) which was opened to the public in 2012. Expedition Tanzania is home to a herd of 5 African elephants, including a female calf born at the zoo on August 20, 2014, the first ever elephant born in the State of Arizona. A large aviary named Flight Connection hosts dozens of species.

Physical Address for Reid Park Zoo 
3400 E. Zoo Court
Tucson, AZ 85716

General information: 520.881.4753