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Topic: 2023 Rules of Golf: 5 Key Changes
This Golf Rules Seminar will be presented by the PGA Golf Professionals of SBRGC and scheduled for approximately 1-hour. There will be a Q&A at the end of the presentation.
SaddleBrooke Ranch Golf Club in located at 31280 S. Amenity Drive in the SaddleBrooke Ranch Pro Shop
Phone #: 520.818.5951
Upcoming event ‘Savor Southern Arizona Food and Wine Festival’ an annual food festival held at Tucson Botanical Gardens, Tucson on Saturday, 28th January 2023, over 50 of the regions highly respected chefs offering attendees samplings of a variety of foods, wines, beers and the diversity of the foods and ingredients throughout Southern Arizona, this showcases the talent of the culinary community in the Tucson area held in a picturesque environment of the Botanical Gardens. Mark it on your calendars for end of January don’t miss this event, tickets are $100 for 12 noon to 3.00pm and $150 for early admission 11.00am to 3.00pm Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 N. Alvernon Way, Tucson, AZ 85712
The start of 2023 is looking eerily similar to 2022. Paddle-testing drama is not going anywhere in the new year. With hundreds of new paddles flooding the market, regulation of paddles and balls has become an arduous task.
The recent drama involves an alleged Paddletek paddle from a professional player that was given to a fan. The fan claims that the paddle had a raw carbon fiber surface and is not the same version as the off the shelf USAP approved Tempest Reign Pro.
The dust has not settled on this latest paddle controversy, but as we saw last year, the paddle testing process has been outpaced by technology. Major progress is required to keep up with the massive boom the sport has seen in the past two years.
The SaddleBrooke Ranch Pickleball Club with over 750 members just wants to have fun. Winning may be more fun than losing, but comradery, friendship, respect and exercise is the name of the game. With 24 courts, SaddleBrooke Ranch offers a place for everyone. Beginner or 5+ there is a place for you at the Ranch.
Want more information about the active lifestyle at SaddleBrooke Ranch?
Contact Lynn Baker 520-829-5219 Ext 3
Lynn@SBRanchRealty.com
Golf in January:
Another year has come and gone. We are happy to celebrate a fresh start and a brand-new golf season with our course in the best shape in years! Stay in tune with the Forecaddie to keep up to date with everything Pro Shop and golf course related. In the sections following, you will find all the information relating to this month in golf, as well as contact information for our golf associations and our Greens Committee.
Pro Shop Schedule:
Pro Shop Hours – Open 30 minutes before the first tee time and 1 hour before shotguns. The pro shop closes at 4:00pm. Pro shop staff will carry the pro shop cell phone (520-561-1196) until 4:30.
Staff are available until one hour before sunset.
Free Monthly Gold Clinic:
Every month Mike and Ken will conduct a free golf clinic. All residents and their guests are welcome to attend, and there is no cost. Please sign up in the Pro Shop. The staff have a book behind the counter with all the scheduled clinics that you can sign up for. You are welcome to attend as often and as many as you like! The clinics will cover basic techniques and mechanics of each topic and are great for learning a new skill or brushing up on a skill that needs some work. The next clinic will cover putting and will be held on Monday, January 23rd, at 2:00 pm at the practice putting green.
SaddleBrooke Ranch Pickleball Association is one of the most popular places to play pickleball in Arizona. There are twenty-four outdoor hard courts. These are dedicated courts with permanent lines and nets. Players have access to restrooms, water, and lights. A membership allows you to play in organized round robin play and residency at SaddleBrooke Ranch is required to use the courts. Reservations are available for members, and residents can entertain friends and relatives.
The SaddleBrooke Ranch Pickleball Club is the largest club on the Ranch and boasts a membership of about 750 residents. Despite the size of the club, courts are almost always available for drop-in players.
Beginner lessons are available, as well as help in choosing an appropriate paddle. Coaching to help players advance through the rankings is also available for individuals or groups. 
If Iyou have been “hooked” on pickleball and want to continue your active lifestyle in a premier 55+ community, look no further than SaddleBrooke Ranch just north of Oro Valley, Arizona.
SaddleBrooke Ranch itself is one of the most popular 55+ communities in southern Arizona with amenities galore and beautiful resale homes in like-new condition.
The team at SBRanchReality is always available to get you started in the next phase of life in beautiful SBR and Arizona. Contact us.
SADDLEBROOKE RANCH GOLF CLUB 2023 RESIDENT GOLF FEES – ANNUAL FEES
SBR Annual Pass
1st Person in household $3500.00 inc. tax $3430.00 inc. tax (with cash discount)
2nd Person in household $3300.00 inc. tax $3234.00 inc. tax (with cash discount)
Best value if playing 2 – 4+ times per week…Cost per round under $35
$200 discount for the 2nd person in household annual purchase
2% discount for cash payment at purchase
Complimentary 25-bucket range card
20% discount on golf shop apparel
10% discount on golf shop equipment
10% discount off guest rates for non-resident guests
Lowest Chelsea Tee Time Reservation points at 0.5 points per request placement
PLAY CARD FEES
SBR 75 Play Card (18 Holes)
Individual Use $3000.00 inc. tax $2940.00 inc. tax (with cash discount)
Household Use $3375.00 inc. tax $3307.50 inc. tax (with cash discount)
Based on playing 1 – 2 times per week throughout the year
Up to a 35% discount compared to Winter Season Prime rate
2% discount for cash payment at purchase
Second lowest Chelsea points at 1.0 point per placement…Points in effect while the play card is active
Can be used for non-resident guests
SBR 50 Play Card (18 Holes)
Individual Use $2500.00 inc. tax $2450.00 inc. tax (with cash discount)
Household Use $2750.00 inc. tax $2695.00 inc. tax (with cash discount)
SBR 50 Play Card (9 Holes)
Individual Use $1500.00 inc. tax $1470.00 inc. tax (with cash discount)
Household Use $1650.00 inc. tax $1617.00 inc. tax (with cash discount)
Based on playing 1 – 2 times per week during Fall, Winter, and Spring rate seasons
Up to a 20% discount compared to Winter Season Prime rate
2% discount for cash payment at purchase
Second lowest Chelsea points at 1.0 point per placement…Points in effect while the play card is active
Can be used for non-resident guests
SBR 25 Play Card (18 Holes)
Individual Use $1400.00 inc. tax $1372.00 inc. tax (with cash discount)
SBR 25 Play Card (9 Holes)
Individual Use $840.00 inc. tax $823.20 inc. tax (with cash discount)
Based on playing one time per week during the Winter rate season
Up to an 10% discount compared to Winter season Prime rate
2% discount for cash payment at purchase
Second lowest Chelsea points at 1.0 point per placement…Points in effect while the play card is active
Can be used for non-resident guests
“PAY AS YOU GO” FEES
SBR Resident (“Pay as you go”) Please see seasonal daily rate structure below.
Provides flexibility with four different rates per day and six rate periods during the year
No pre-pay commitment
DAILY INDIVIDUAL RESIDENT / RESIDENT GUEST GREEN FEES*
SEASON DATES PRIME MIDDAY TWI / 9 SUPER TWILIGHT
WINTER 12/01/21 – 03/31/22 $62.00 $50.00 $37.00 $25.00
SPRING 04/01/22 – 04/30/22 $56.00 $45.00 $33.00 $22.00
05/01/22 – 05/31/22 $50.00 $40.00 $30.00 $20.00
SUMMER 06/01/22 – 09/30/22 $43.00 $35.00 $26.00 $17.00
FALL 10/01/22 – 10/31/22 $50.00 $40.00 $30.00 $20.00
11/01/22 – 11/30/22 $56.00 $45.00 $33.00 $22.00
SPECTATOR / RENTAL CLUBS / RANGE FEES*
SPECTATOR FEE (Non-Playing Spectator) 18 holes – $30.00 9 holes – $18.00
RENTAL CLUBS 18 holes – $30.00 9 holes – $18.00
RANGE BUCKET (~35 balls) $5.25
DRIVING RANGE CARD – 50 buckets (~35 balls each) $225.00 (15% discount off regular bucket price
ANNUAL RENTAL CART FEE (per seat) $575.00
RESIDENT RENTAL CART FEE (per player) $13.00
The SaddleBrooke Ranch Pro Shop will be having their Annual Holiday Sale from December 6th to 12th.
Layaways Accepted December 5th!
All Sales Final!
Plus, Additional Markdowns on Merchandise already on Sale!
Come on by and pick up some great SBR “Swag’!
POP Tennis is truly the sport that everyone can immediately play and enjoy. It thoroughly engages and exhilarates you!
Unlike sports that require prior lessons or a measure of athletic ability, children, young and middle-aged adults, and the older set, can just grab a racquet and tennis ball, and go out and have a fantastic time. This makes POP Tennis a great family and Senior activity. Additionally, one of the fun things about POP Tennis, is that everyone has their own, unique playing style – so have a blast, as you find or create yours!
In POP Tennis, the court is smaller than tennis, and the racquet or paddle is shorter — so that the hitting surface is closer to the hand — and the ball is less lively. Additionally, the net is lower, and the players serve underhand—not overhand, as in Tennis.
The huge benefits for POP Tennis players are that the rallies are generally longer; there is more fun and exciting net play and (net) poaching; there is less court to cover; there are no overhead serves to learn; and as a result, there is far less running and wear and tear on the back, legs, feet, and shoulders.
An active POP Tennis group has been created here on the Ranch. See if this is an activity you would enjoy. Contact any of the regular players to get a taste of this new way of enhancing your Ranch experience.
The mission of the SBRPA is to establish SaddleBrooke Ranch as a premiere pickleball community serving all skill levels and formats of play, thereby promoting the passion and sport of the game both inside and outside our community.
The year is winding down, and the holidays will soon be upon us. Please take advantage of the new stock in the pro shop, our Holiday Sale (December 6-12), or by placing a special order prior to December 15, to use up any credit book funds you may have before they expire December 31. Stay in tune with the Forecaddie to keep up-to-date with everything pro shop and golf course related. In the sections following, you will find all the information relating to this month in golf, as well as contact information for our golf associations and our Greens Committee.
Pro Shop Hours – Open 30 minutes before the first tee time and 1 hour before shotguns. The pro shop closes at 4:00pm. Pro shop staff will carry the pro shop cell phone (520-561-1196) until 5:30.
Staff is available until one hour before sunset.
First tee time: 11-1 to 11-14: 7:30am 11-15 to 11-30: 7:45am
Last tee time: 11-1 to 11-30: 4:00pm
Shotguns: 8:00/1:00
Rate Periods:
11-1 to 11-30: Prime
7:30/7:45 – 11:22
Midday 11:30 – 1:22
Twilight 1:30 – 2:52
Super Twilight 3:00 – Sunset
November Maintenance Schedule:
We will continue closing one hole per nine to cart traffic to help maintain the quality of the turf. We will continue our program of resting the natural turf one week per month, except in December and January, when it will be rested for two weeks in those months due to the slowing of the growth rate of the rye overseed. The Bermuda turf is slowing down and will go fully into dormancy following our first frost. Please support our maintenance staff by filling divots with sand and repairing ball marks on the green. Cart traffic is highly damaging to the turf, so please limit time on the turf as much as possible. We will delay tee times for one hour two days a month to help facilitate painting the course. Painting will be done on regular weekday tee time days (Mon, Wed, or Fri). Back Nine morning 9-hole times will not be available on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday on a year-round basis to allow maintenance time to complete weekly tasks.
Doug Sedam was awesome to work with and I learned a great deal about both selling and buying a home. Both transactions were seamless in that what occurred was exactly according to the plan Doug originally proposed.
John C.
We were referred to Doug Sedam by a close friend of ours that has used his services many times before. Working with Doug was an incredible experience and he is now our realtor for life!
Karen S.
Doug Sedam was a joy to work with during the sale of our home. We had never sold a home before and Doug guided us through every step of the process to what was a very close of escrow. We are truly grateful for all the hard work that Doug did in getting us out of a home that we thought had very little equity. He was able to get us top dollar for our home. He did this by effectively marketing the home, and bringing a buyer, which resulted in an even greater reduction in total commissions paid out.
Jennifer H.
Lynn Baker constantly works hard for the sale of our home. His professionalism is exhibited by his manners with us and the buyers coming to the numerous Open Houses he holds. Always a positive attitude, no hard sell, just an ethical, down to earth common-sense approach to the outcome we all want. As his clients we could not ask for anything more. Both my wife and I highly recommend Lynn and SBRanchRealty for all your real estate needs.
Don and Betty S.
Doug came to our home here in SaddleBrooke Ranch to meet with us. He initially previewed our home, and then conducted a very detailed listing presentation. At the end of his listing presentation, he told us he thought that he had a buyer that would be very interested in our home. Within 4-days' time our home was in escrow at "full price", and we closed 30-days later! The buyer also bought a great deal our furniture and the golf cart as well, all making our move out-of-state even easier for us. We highly recommend Douglas Sedam if you are considering listing your home here at the "Ranch".
Ricard and Barbara K.
My agent was Lynn Baker, he was very knowledgeable of the current market trends. He was very helpful to me on the sale of my home. He is a professional in every aspect of the real estate business. He guided me through every aspect of the transaction from listing to closing. He would respond quickly if I sent him a text message or called him. Top notch customer service! Would definitely use the SBRanchRealty team in the future and have Lynn Baker as my agent.
Louise M.
Within days of listing our home, Doug showed our home to one of his clients - who fell in love with our home. We were in escrow within the week and we saved over $21,000 in commission by Doug representing both parties. The caveat to all this is that Doug negotiated a 6-month "rent-back" as our new home in Colorado was not done yet! Winner-Winner for us and the buyers! Great job Doug!
Terry B.
We were referred to Doug Sedam by neighbors here at SaddleBrooke Ranch as they had sold their home and then purchased another as they a bigger home for all their family to come for the holidays. They were very happy on both the transactions that he helped them on. We needed to relocate back to the mid-west to be closer to our family and needed to sale and move in a hurry. Doug put "the pedal to the metal" and got us where we needed to be in just 45-days. We couldn't have done it without him!
Thomas S.
Lynn Baker has been so wonderful to work with. He has listed our home here in Arizona and is doing a fabulous job. We actually own a Real Estate company in Oregon and know a great agent when we find one. Lynn is such an honest and hard-working Realtor. Look no further...he's your man!
Chris and Sharon O.
Douglas Sedam and Lynn Baker were our listing agents on the home we just recently sold in SaddleBrooke. We have never had, in all of our real estate endeavors, such a high level of customer services plus the end result of selling our home in short order. We highly recommend Douglas and Lynn at SBranchRealty!
Micheal & Donna W.
We met Douglas Sedam at an Open House in SaddleBrooke Ranch that he was hosting. Within minutes of talking with him, my husband and I knew that this was going to be our real estate agent, in the process we were going through, that being retiring and moving to a 55+ community. Being that Douglas and his wife Melanie had lived in the SaddleBrooke Ranch Community for the previous 4+ years he had a great deal of insight as to what this community was really like and also gave us detailed information concerning the real estate market, and then discussing with us what exactly we were looking for in a home. Needless to say, we just recently moved into our retirement DREAM HOME! We highly recommend Douglas Sedam of SBRanchRealty.com!
Douglas had alerted us about “dual agency” and stated that he represented both sellers (us) and buyers on about 35% of his listings and if this occurred, he would reduce his commission on the buyer’s side by 25%. He did just that and saved us and additional ~$4650 in the process. We couldn’t be happier with his service.
Dave B.
When Douglas sat down with us and did his listing presentation, he went through a long list of all the things he would do to get our house on the market, how he would market it on a national basis, and the follow-through once in escrow. We made a decision to list our home with him “on-the-spot” and he never let us down and sold our home in a timely manner.
Peter K.
SaddleBrooke Ranch, Oracle, AZ 85623
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