Bear Creek Golf Club - East Course

Played on a Saturday afternoon and expected it to be slow. Boy was it ever! Took 3.5 hours for the front 9 and I left after hole 16 because I was at the 6 hour mark and was not going to make dinner. The marshals did absolutely nothing to improve pace of play.

The course was in rough shape and for the price there are many other metro plex courses I will play in the future.

If you want lots of time to sit and chat with your buddies. This is the course for you!

I played the east course in the afternoon and it was not very busy. The course is in very good shape and the greens are very fast and in good condition. I would recommend this course and prepare for a tough round of golf. I will definitely play this course again.

Nice course. Great layout. Conditions are above average. It’s a problem when you’re having to wait 10 minutes to play every shot. There needs to be a course marshal moving the slow players along.

Challenging course, great conditions, amazing clubhouse/range/outdoor area, nice staff. I teed off in the afternoon and the pace was slow. Maybe there was an event but we had 5 groups backed up on the back 9.

I play my golf at a country club. When there's a tournament I never join in because I cannot play on saturdays. Therefore I pick a public course to play on Sunday. Occasionally I will play Bear Creek. But that's only after I forget how absolutely slow this course is. I have never played this course in less than four and a half hours this particular round was 5 hours and 5 minutes mind boggling and brutal when it's that hot. The course was in good shape but the pace of play was killer. The other super negative of this course are the golf carts they are ancient gas powered carts that are totally unresponsive sometimes backfire and I can walk faster than the cart I was in would go on this particular day. This course is really missing the boat by allowing such pitifully slow play and not updating their cards

The Fairways are in pretty good shape, Greens are decent probably 7.5/10

The Carts need addressing though. I played with a Family of 3 with they had 2 carts and I had my own. The Dad’s cart popped the drive belt on the 15th Fairway, luckily he jumped in with me and we left the buggy in the Fairway. Lots of bad tires, bad suspensions, bad brakes, parking brakes that won’t set, engines and clutches are “jerky, this is a Major issue IMO. Lastly, you have to tune out 747’s taking off from the airport which is impossible! It’s also too pricey on weekends for the inconveniences.

My 2 Cents, you did ask…

Fairways and greens were in great condition. Clubhouse may or may not have change, so probably best not to use cash. It would be nice if the outdoor kitchen had grilled good or at least hot food, but oh well, it was a nice time.

The golf course is in great shape, greens roll very nice and fast. Fairways and tees were in great shape. Cart girls come around a lot. Only bad thing was the extremely slow play.

The bad:

Took almost 10 minutes to check in and wasn’t told where East or West course started, wasn’t given a scorecard, wasn’t told where to go for the golf carts. Starter didn’t show up until the group behind me decided to just go up on the 1st tee. Greens were not in the best condition, patchy in some areas. All water on course very gross / moss green and smelly. Tee boxes were torn up for the most part. Golf cart parking brake didn’t work.

The good:

Excellent course layout, decently good food and good price. Has range/chip/putt practice areas.