Bear Creek Golf Club - East Course

always love this course. gotta hit it straight or else. due to all the traffic, and time of year, the fairways are hard packed. but, you can still enjoy the great layout!

Fairways where great and so where the greens but the price of food was way to high $24 for 2 bratwurst and 1 hotdog

The play was excruciatingly slow, nearly a six hour round. From nine on the west course was horrible layed out and overall ground was far to firm.

Bear Creek East is a tough course with a strange layout on the front 9. Lots of short par 4s with tight tee box shots. The course was dreadfully slow, taking a full 5 1/2 to complete. For $70 I expected a better value and pace of play. The one good thing were the access to cart girls!

Gas carts were terrible, sloppy and jerky needing a doctor.

The Tag Marshal GPS system in the golf cart looked great for the scant amount of time it was up & running before it would shut itself down.

The bunkers were in below average condition (I probably should have played them as ground under repair because it cost me several strokes during the round) as were some of the tees, in particular #13 where it'd be impossible to tee a ball with multiple types of tees.

As should be the case, there are certain tee shots that cater to those who work the ball left-to-right and certain tee shots that cater to those who work the ball right-to-left.

For the beginning to average player, the sidehill/downhill/uphill lies provide a challenge throughout the course.

The approach to #5 is a downhill one fraught with water in front of the green and a steep downhill slope behind the green that ends up with the ball either in the the tee area of #6 or just as likely the woods.

#6, #7, & #17 can be a difficult tee shot for those with the left-to-right ball flight.

For some reason, the two times I've played the East course it seems easy for course traffic to bottleneck.

Played with a friend from out of town and was told on the 15th hole that the course was closed?!?!! Apparently they overbooked or didn’t communicate because we paid for 18 and had to finish on the first three holes we started on. Also, the gps was smashed and when I asked about a different cart was told they all weren’t working so to deal with it. Not the experience I expected for the price.

It is absolutely ridiculous that it takes so long to play and that you allow UNMARSHALLED 4-somes to play so slow. WE waited on every shot. I will not play this course again on a weekend.

I like the carts that have the tablets with the course layout and gps. Good greens and well kept course for a public golf course.

If pace of play is an issue for you to be consistent, don't play here! We only played 14 holes and that was almost 4.5 hours, we left! At one point there on a hole there were 5 groups. For all of us, we are not PGA players, its called ready golf and for God sakes don't spend 10 minutes looking for your ball just drop and move on.

I just got sick night before and it wouldn’t let me cancel tee times ,my Fault

Overall about a 4* for me. Greens were in great condition. But being right next to an airfield... We probably had 100 planes fly over throughout the round. Pace of play was bad, but also labor day weekend