Bear's Best Atlanta

Very nice

The attendants were great as was the cart girl. The playing surface was great. We had a great time and will be back again.

Rudest starter I’ve ever met on a course - ncie course but this ruined the day for me, won’t come back.

Course was in good shape and was well-maintained. Would definitely play again to get even with the postage-stamp greens.

Despite the fact that I draw the ball, I like the mostly left too right course. In great shape, greens true and new bunkers awesome. Alway play when I visit Cumming.

Bears Best is a really cool course in Suwanee; each hole is a replica of a famous Jack Nicklaus design somewhere in the world. The course has a nice balance of challenging and forgiving.

The staff was very gracious and helpful.

A few notes for improvement.

Dry off the cart seats after it's stopped raining.

Pace should be strictly enforced.

Don't charge full price for aerated greens...even two weeks later they were not good at all.

Residents walking on the course delaying play should be fined. We waited several minutes to tee off for this group of knuckle draggers to move along off the cart path.

Otherwise, it's a nice course with great clubhouse service and new carts.

We were very much looking forward to Bears best. It was recommended to us. We were told what an awesome course it was. Unfortunately, the condition of the course was fair and best. The driving range was a complete sandpit, and the greens were only moderately true. However, the staff was very friendly and you could see that 30 to 60 days from now, with appropriate maintenance, the course could be beautiful. Would not play again. We played four courses during our trip to the masters, and this was by far the bottom of the list.

We paid $150 to play on the weekend and considering the course, $60 to $75 would have been a fair price range. There was nothing about the design of the course that stood out and the playing conditions were closer to a municipal course than a premium venue. We played 6 courses in the area and this was at the bottom of the list. The staff and pace of play was good but we will never return.

Staff was outstanding, food was very good. Layout was very good. Green speeds were inconsistent. Very little grass around the greens - LOTS of bare, hard-packed sand lies you just grabbed putter for instead of playing the shot you normally would around the green. Definitely not worth the $104 price tag in my opinion.

Bear’s Best is in great condition. Nice pace of play too. Greens & fairways were very nice. Excellent food in the restaurant after our round.

We played yesterday and the starter was the rudest starter I’ve ever come across. We had the first tee time of the day. We were told a single would be playing w our 2, which was fine. I picked up my buddy and we went to home 1 and waited for the 3rd guy. The starter came down and said we were suppose to check in with him and asked if we had “ever played golf before” and told us it was better to “ask for permission than forgiveness”. This was all because we drove the cart to hole 1 without his approval. We had no idea we were doing anything “wrong”! Apparently the starter doesn’t sit at hole 1 and gets irritated if you don’t track him down I guess.

I will never play this course again - the starter ruined the entire outing.

Great course and in good shape for winter months. Starter was very friendly and lunch was very good . Will be back

Don’t read old reviews. This place has gone downhill, yet continues to charge greens fees (and range ball purchases and $4 soda prices) as though it’s maintained as before. They place range stations where grass hasn’t grown back from previous sessions. Only one of two practice greens has targets. Carts are nice. Seats are cushy; a cooler has ice waiting for you; sand bottles are full; the ball and club washer have water (although my ball washer consistently missed part of each ball as though bristles needed replacing); and the GPS tells you a number of distances. The starter had me, a single, go one tee time early (interrupting my warm-up), because my group had an extra cart of non-playing parents and he said Bear’s Best doesn’t want three carts in a group. Upon reaching the first tee box two minutes early, I learned the starter let a twosome go ahead of us moments beforehand, causing our first shots to be delayed until the next tee time. The course drains poorly. There was .24 inches of rain the day before, and none for the four days before that. Yet the course required cart path only (which the pro shop did not inform me of upon check-in). Also, more than once, I saw a sprinkler going. The ranger didn’t mind, though, as he parked his cart on the grass while searching for balls in the woods and not picking up the trash he came across. Cart paths had a number of places where tree roots apparently have an upheaval and breaking of the concrete. But there isn’t a warning about bad places, as witnessed by my GPS telling me after running over a big hidden bump, “Bump in cart path.” Bear’s Best doesn’t provide pin placements. I called the clubhouse from the first fairway and they said so. There is just one water station on the course, which you pass two times. The beverage cart came to us only two times. The employee asked for a tip by inquiring how much change I wanted. The biggest disappointment with Bear’s Best is the quality of the greens. This track used to have the best greens of any course open to the public in the Atlanta area. Now, they are on par with the course I usually play, which has greens fees almost half the price.

I don’t know how a golf course could have financial issues these days. You can’t get a tee time, there is so much player interest. They used to overseed this course with winter rye. It was amazing - green fairways in January. Also, the greens were always fast and true. They needed to be rolled. They used to have cart guys meeting you in the parking lot, to take your bags. Nope. Maybe it’s just February, but seems like they have slipped.

Had a 1:30pm tee time Sunday afternoon. Paid $85, not informed that they were an hour behind due to a frost delay. Half the range was closed and the Emory golf team was practicing. No grass left on the range. Just seemed as if no one was running the show and no offer of a price reduction, even though we started at twilight. Just not a great experience and the course is not what it used to be, $85 seemed like a good price, but the experience was poor.