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Black Bear Golf Club
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P.B. Dye-designed Black Bear Golf Club offers good value and a challenging day. Six sets of tees give you plenty of options. This 18-hole championship facility course, located within 45 minutes of the Orlando attractions boasts of a complete practice facility that includes a double ended driving range, as well as a 40,000 sq. ft. short game area.
Golfers at Black Bear can count on the Dye trademark touches which include sandy waste bunkers, undulating greens and dramatic elevation changes-in short, Black Bear Golf Club is most definitely a "do or Dye" golf course.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Championship | 72 | 7041 yards | 74.1 | 139 |
| Black | 72 | 6453 yards | 71.5 | 134 |
| White | 72 | 6025 yards | 69.7 | 126 |
| White (W) | 72 | 6025 yards | 75.8 | 128 |
| Yellow (W) | 72 | 5344 yards | 69.0 | 125 |
| Yellow | 72 | 5344 yards | 66.6 | 120 |
| Green | 72 | 4942 yards | 64.5 | 116 |
| Green (W) | 72 | 4942 yards | 69.0 | 125 |
| Red | 71 | 3723 yards | 60.1 | 106 |
| Red (W) | 71 | 3723 yards | 62.3 | 110 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Championship M: 74.1/142 | 405 | 534 | 189 | 548 | 197 | 378 | 402 | 394 | 428 | 3475 | 420 | 222 | 414 | 400 | 568 | 141 | 512 | 456 | 433 | 3566 | 7041 |
| Black M: 71.4/137 W: 77.6/145 | 346 | 489 | 159 | 525 | 177 | 358 | 355 | 367 | 395 | 3171 | 394 | 192 | 372 | 370 | 544 | 131 | 472 | 414 | 393 | 3282 | 6453 |
| White M: 69.5/128 W: 75.3/140 | 338 | 462 | 147 | 510 | 167 | 341 | 337 | 327 | 388 | 3017 | 364 | 184 | 362 | 336 | 469 | 118 | 454 | 373 | 348 | 3008 | 6025 |
| Yellow M: 66.5/120 W: 71.5/132 | 310 | 414 | 135 | 463 | 150 | 311 | 309 | 270 | 371 | 2733 | 348 | 167 | 311 | 302 | 383 | 91 | 392 | 329 | 288 | 2611 | 5344 |
| Green M: 64.3/113 W: 69.3/127 | 305 | 409 | 130 | 458 | 97 | 276 | 299 | 263 | 299 | 2536 | 318 | 147 | 306 | 297 | 370 | 86 | 387 | 257 | 238 | 2406 | 4942 |
| Red M: 59.4/101 W: 62.4/113 | 230 | 302 | 87 | 354 | 97 | 229 | 216 | 226 | 243 | 1984 | 243 | 112 | 226 | 232 | 305 | 86 | 290 | 195 | 238 | 1927 | 3911 |
| Handicap | 9 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 11 | 17 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 6 | 16 | 2 | 18 | 4 | 8 | 10 | |||
| Par | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 36 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 36 | 72 |
| Handicap (W) | 3 | 9 | 13 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 15 | 11 | 6 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 18 | 4 | 16 | 14 |
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A little dark, but black bear in a dark tree, hole # 6...appropriate for Black Bear Golf Club! Photo submitted by relivgolfers on 09/29/2013
Pete Dye course
Unigue layout for a Florida course, tee boxes need to be cut but a fun course to play.
"If you dare play Blackbear"
It has beeb a few years since I have played Blackbear, and now I understand stand why I missed playing there. If you dare to challenge your iron play, then you must take your game to this golf coures that requires sharp and accurate approache shots to those small greens. However, the challenge is when you miss landing on them that in most cases you will have to really have a short game to score because those greens have a lot of contour to them. If you dare to play Blackbear, be prepared and know that it is worth playing there. I love this game ..
Good tough course.
The course is good overall, lots of hills, bunkers, uneven lies, elevated greens, small greens (very tough).
Fairways are generous, tees are ok until you find a tree directly in your line. Greens are narrow and small, multilevel, elevated, guarded by sand and run offs.
It makes for a challenging course, you need to hit your targets or you will be penalized. Fun to play.
Great course, well kept
Black Bear is in good shape and managed well. The grill and bar are also recommended.
will come again soon
The course and weather were great. The course has it moments with you. You are almost always hitting to up hill green so make that club adjustment. There is a few greens that are narrow and can give you a fit thinking you hit a wonderful shot only to see its off the green 5 yd. But to say it again I will return.
Do not play here 🤮 Bad bad course!!!
Weeds all in the greens and cannot make one putt 🤪 Not worth one penny 🙏 Play somewhat else!!!
Bad business and horrible customer service
Had a tee time for 4 golfers, 1 couldn’t show up. At the pro shop we notified the staff that only 3 were playing they were fine with it.
Three days later i get a charge from golfNow for a no-show, called golf now and got told to call the course, called the course and got told to read the terms of golf now and that they don’t advise the pro shop staff to share this information so golfers don’t “make” a scene at the pro shop.
Very clever
Illegal Tees
Black Bear is already a Dye-abolical course. It didn't need any help. But the pins on some holes were in frankly illegal positions. Balls placed on the ground next to the hole rolled 8-10 feet away. The greens-keeper needs to be admonished.
Greens were true and (too) fast. Due to the severe slopes, slower greens would have been in order. Fairways were good. Some of the bunkers (#12, anyone?) were quite ratty.
Good elevation and layout
The course has a great layout. The greens could use some work. For the price it’s not bad. Good time.
Mission Resort + Club Stay & Play Package
Rosen Inn At Pointe Orlando Stay & Play Package
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Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill Club & Lodge Stay & Play Package
The policies of the golf course are clearly written and every golfer is presented these policies Prior to booking their tee time and during the booking process (this is why all of our tee times are required to be made online so that these policies are presented up front before booking - they are actually presented to the customer at least three times during the booking process and then again in the confirmation email that is sent). Each golfer that books is required to click a box that says “I have read and agree to the policies of the club”. It clearly states that you are responsible for the tee times you book for and you have up until 24 hours before your time to cancel with no charge.
When a golfer books a tee time for 4 golfers and then only shows up with three people and doesn’t tell the course until they are checking in for their time that gives the golf course No time to try and sell that tee time and recoup the revenue lost. There is a level of respect that a customer owes to a business to agree to pay for the item they bought when the business can no longer sell the item. Instead of having total disregard for the business the that loss of revenue they have just caused. Every golfer also has the access in their confirmation email to cancel their tee time up until 24 hours before. Unfortunately if multiple groups did this everyday that is an extreme loss of revenue to the golf course. We hope that golfers booking tee times (at any golf course) are responsible adults who read the business policies of what they are buying and not take it out on the business when these policies are clearly stated before booking and the customer agreed to it. Unfortunately this day in age with the extreme increases in costs, materials, labor etc a golf course cannot sustain a business for long when customers book and then don’t show. Bad business practice would be if the customer was not notified of the policies, this is clearly not the case.