Bear Creek Golf Complex - Bear Course

Supposed to play 18, left after 9 holes. Near 3 hours for 9 holes, 10 minute wait on every tee box and it wasn't even cart path only. Ranger had the gal to tell us "be ready to hit" as if we were the issue. Beer cart girl left the course at 3:30 despite a packed course on a Saturday. Poorly run on a Saturday at a course in pretty good shape.

$65 on golf now $95 walk-in rate for a round of golf. No problem. Announced cart path only when we got to hole 1. That’s a problem! It’s an ok course if they price themselves for what the course is. We made it to hole 4 and cart lady says it’s her last round. Really 230pm on a Saturday? If you make people walk the whole course in 98 degrees you would think the beverage cart would be there til the end of the day. Not really one to speak badly but seriously! Glad Arizona has a lot of other choices to pick from. Hope management realizes that as well.

I enjoyed the round. Conditions were good for this time of year and over seeding. Car path only, but we were 3 1/2 hours playing time. Course was not overly challenging, but had some decent holes on it.

Greens were slow, but that seems to be the theme during our stay in Phoenix, over seeding makes for slow greens

Can’t believe I paid $70 at 4pm for cart path only, over seeded fairways and shaggy greens. That was my mistake but won’t be returning til next summer when the prices are back to normal. Staff is always friendly I just wish they had a marshal to keep up pace of play

Course was in great shape. The only knock was pace of play. At times it was terrible. for the cost there are better courses in the valley!!

We were not informed prior to booking that the course was preparing for overseeding

We had 2 players got paired with 2 guys they were great . We were jokeing and the frist round went quick. Their was a men's club tournament so after are frist round ( 18 ) stopped at clubhouse paid for a re- round which was only $20. But took a long time to get are food .we made it due to it was wide up on the frist tee.

This course is fine, but in terms of value I find many of the other options in the area to be much much better. If you want to play a track that is straight hole after straight hole this is great, but after getting through the front 9 I found myself wanting some more variety. Conditions were as expected in late summer right before overseed, I just don’t see any reason why I would choose this track over most of the other (equally priced) courses nearby with a more fun layout. Would be great for new golfers, or for young players picking up the game.

Was the course perfect, no. If you want perfect then go to a Troon or private course. I play 1-2 times a week. For the shape that Bear championship course is in you will be hard pressed to find a better bang for your buck. Most everything was nice and green. Tee boxes were in great shape, fairways for the most part were in good shape. There were areas where there was not much grass, but I’ve seen it a lot worse on other courses this summer. If there is anything to have a slight complain about it might’ve been that the greens were pretty slow and not completely healed from being punched. However, I would go back in a heartbeat.

Easy to follow and well laid out. Great course. Will play it again soon.