Black Bear Golf Club

great layout greens are rough due to drought hopefully get some rain soon

Played on a Tuesday morning. Earlier comments here are very accurate regarding course conditions. But I wanted to add a couple of comments.

1- there are zero amenities here. No yardage screen, no towel, no water on course. That said - they still have ball washes and most holes have nice hole map on marble.

2- I've been golfing for 35 years, and this course had the least stress of any I have played - not easy, just not stressful.

Pace was great, less than 4 hours. However the greens were slow and bumpy, difficult to play when frustrated by hitting a good putt that bumps off line.

The course has wide fairways but small greens. You better have a good approach shot.

having played this course several times, it in need of water and greens repair.

Even given drought conditions in the area, the course conditions were well below average. Greens on the first nine were covered in weeds, greens on the back Lane were oddly spongy.

The course has an interesting layout with a lot of Rolling Hills that favored your shot rolling into play. The fairways condition are fair at best and the greens were very very small not very smooth. Keeping a ball on the green was difficult because of the slope of the edges. When you putt your ball it would hip hop along the way to the hole. The sand traps are terrible and steep to get in and out and rough around the edges.

This course was once beautiful and green. Rough is nothing but weeds. Some greens there is no grass.

The course was good and somewhat difficult. The greens however were in somewhat bad shape and difficult to put on.

I have played a lot out at this course…it’s always hit or miss. When we played…it was a big MISS. The greens were a mess. I get we had a hard freeze a few months back, but everyone course experienced it around here and they’ve done well to get them to respond. Management should be ashamed to charge full rate to play this course right now. Tee boxes are a mess…greens terrible and nothing fair about the fairways. Do better or discount the round until you can fix these conditions. At least make a note on Golf Now so we can decide for ourselves.

Play here alot. Greens were the worst I ever seen. Hopefully time of year.

Course recovering from freeze but acceptable. Should be excellent when recovered. Self service for clubs to cart not appreciated. Practice/warm up range very good (mats for now until grass areas reopen)

I’ll be short and quick, staff was friendly and pace was excellent because nobody was on it and you would understand why if you saw the course. The greens were so bad I wouldn’t let a flat graze on them. It was the overwhelming majority of them. I took two years off from playing here because the conditions slipped. Just go to Zellwood or Forest Lake if you want a lower cost course that is actually maintained and worth it. This was a $25-30 course at most.