Black Bear Golf Club

I've been playing this particular course on/off for the past several years. Being a Pete Dye course, I've always enjoyed the unique, and challenging layout. The course does reward you for making great shots. Anything less , and you're left in a precarious situation. The course aside for a moment, this course needs massive improvement in guest relations, and how they welcome and treat the golfers when the arrive in pro shop. Other than the volunteer starters; the pro shop staff would highly benefit from an extensive course(no pun intended) in customer service. I can say with the utmost confidence; that today will be the last day I'll book a time here. The way the treated both me, and my 7 year old daughter(to whom I'm introducing the game) was unforgivable. In fact, we didn't even play today. We left the facility, and headed over to Red Tail, which I must say had come a long way with the issues they experienced a couple years ago with their greens. Course was in good shape, so was the customer service. Black Bear has lost a long time customer, and a future customer given my daughter is showing a keen interest in the game. For those of you taking the time to read this review; if you're simply willing to fork over 80 bucks to play decent course(at best); then this is the course for you. If your money means more to you, and you want an experience; I'd highly recommend looking elsewhere.

We've played this course several times now and it's become one of our favorites. In good shape, challenging, course, great pro shop and all around bar/restaurant. With all this course has going for it, it really needs to flatten the woman's tees and fix several greens which really ruin a chance for eagle/birdie putts. What makes this course so challenging are the unforgiving hills, a multitude of sand traps and the long and narrow greens.

5 stars all around. Beautiful condition. Two greens had funky patches and somecteaps had weeds, but the design and condition of fairways and greens more than made up for it. Very good challenge at 6400 yds.

I haven’t played blackbear in a long time, so it was nice to go back and see how it is. Course was in decent shape. No concerns a little bit of bare spots here and there but nothing like some places you see. Pace of play was good, had one large slow group in front of us and the Ranger made sure to talk to them and allow us to pass. Price is a little high in my mind for what you get but not crazy out of line enjoyed it a lot and would definitely go back

This is the type of course you come to if you want to challenge your game. The course is HILLY (especially for Florida) and the greens long and narrow. Thank God this course is in good shape (meaning you actually have grass to play off) because course management is a definite! The pro shop is well stocked and the bar/restaurant is a great place to rehash the round. All personnel we've run into have been very pleasant and personable. This course has become one of our favorites in the area.

I would recommend this course very beautiful surrounding area. I recommended highly challenging you need to know how to play golf there I’m a 10 handicap

Shot a 85 from the wt tee box I’ll give a 4 for this Course

Love this golf course ❤️🫶❤️

This course has tons of potential! The price was a bit high considering the condition of a few of the greens, most traps and a few ground under repair spots. It has a Phenomenal layout, and hills, and small fast greens, but it’s just not as pristine as the price would have you think…the off road path to the range was a bit ehhhh municipal.

Probably will not be back, but would recommend it for someone to play, and Sandy played it, it’s a very interesting course in central Florida. The staff inside was exceptional though! Heathere was an awesome bartender and waitress, and the food was delicious! I would love to see the superintendent get the budget he deserves to turn this place into a real gem!

Very fun layout for a florida course, nice and hilly. Greens, fairways, and tees were in good shape. Bunkers and rough were a mixed bag. Ruthless false fronts and side hills on a majority of greens made it a good challenge. Drove an hour to play there and would do it again, mainly because despite a full course, pace of play was great.

Greens were sketchy and inconsistent. Fairways were good along with the tee boxes. Sand traps need some fresh fluffy sand. I did get out a half hour early and grateful for that. Rates are going to have to drop before I come back out and the areas that need addressing corrected.

The photos on the website don’t begin to show off the terrain of this fun course. There are some serious mounds and dips, particularly on the first few holes. That uniqueness made for a very enjoyable round. I’m an intermediate player and my wife has played for only two years, but we both loved it. The forward tee boxes are way up. I felt like she wasn’t getting her money’s worth, but she enjoyed the shorter distances. The course was in very good shape. It is pretty wide open and I don’t recall water coming into play on any holes except the last one, which was perfect for us as it was our first time out since it got cold in New Hampshire.

For some reason, the driving range was closed. We had tee times just after 2:00 when the rates dropped to their lowest, but were ready to head out by 1:30 and they had no problem with us going early. There is no beverage cart. Thankfully our beverage bags were full of adult beverages, which no one paid any attention to. I would highly recommend this course and expect to be back.

I think this is the 4th time playing Black Bear over the past few years. Course is quite challenging. Some of the sand traps appear to be not well maintained and some greens had some patches of weed although cut short enough that this was not an issue. Overall I would say this is not really a course for beginners.