SaddleBrooke Ranch 55+ Golf Community Arizona – Golf Course Update

Sanding Divots – We see many golfers are sanding their divots and we greatly appreciate the effort! We ask that you DO NOT sand divots on the tee boxes however, as the maintenance crew will be sanding AND seeding the tee box divots and if golfers sand the tee box divots the seeding will not be as effective. Thank you!

Saturday 8:00a Open Play Shotguns resume on Saturday October 16th. Simply request 8:00 for your request if you wish to be placed in the shotgun. There will be tee times ahead of the shotgun from 7:15 through 7:52. Tee times before and following the shotgun will depend on the size of the shotgun.

Cart Traffic Control this Season – The most detrimental thing to the course’s conditions in the coming months is cart traffic. WE need to work together to minimize wear patterns as play enters and exits the golf holes. The key to this is dispersing cart traffic throughout the entire golf hole as much as possible.

Here’s how you can help preserve our conditions.

1. Strictly follow the 90 degree cart path rule. What this means is that you stay on the cart path after your tee shot until you are 90 degrees to your ball, then you drive to your ball. After your final shot onto the green again drive 90 degrees to the cart path, don’t continue up the fairway and exit as close as you can to the green.

2. Do not enter the turf as the soonest possible entry point, follow the 90 degree rule.

3. If you see wear patterns starting to develop don’t drive through the thinning area, look for an alternative entry/exit

Course Painting will occur every 3 to 4 weeks. The paint is not just for aesthetics, also included with the paint are nutrients for the turf. The paint itself also keeps the turf warmer and helps keep it more resilient to cart traffic. In order to get the paint down and allow drying time we will delay tee times on painting days by one hour. The following days have been scheduled for painting thus far: 10-20 and 22 and 11-17 and 19.

Cart Path on #9 after the green near the lake will be widened next week. Cart traffic will be directed onto the grass left of the path while work is being done. The hole will remain OPEN for play!

Monday, November 8th the last tee time will be 1:52 in order to allow course maintenance time to apply poa control agents.