Bear Creek Golf Club

This course is excellent for beginners and people who would want a leisure game of golf. The greens were slightly fast and the cart paths were pretty damaged with several large potholes. Nonetheless, an excellent round of golf was had with a few challenges.

This is a nice course, not an over abundance of sandtraps, most yraps are well maintainef, greens were reasonaby good, speed was decent, layout is confusing at times, i would suggest using a cart due to distance between some holes, look forward to golfing here again next time i visit.

I’m an avid golfer and this was by far the worst golf experience I’ve ever had in my entire life. So bad it last 1 hole, got paired with a guy who had never held a golf club before. We pulled up to hole 2 and there were 6 groups on the hole. Staff was incompetent and delusional. DO NOT PLAY THIS COURSE!!

Even with the rain this morning, the starter was able to shotgun the morning tee times and move us right along. The front desk staff was very friendly and the cart girl came around multiple times. They even have a bar inside the clubhouse and now serve hot dogs! The Pro Shop is full of the latest Srixon, Cleaveland and Nike golf apparel and footwear, too!!

My son and I played this course recently, and not for the first time. The greens had recently been aerated and sanded, but there was no notification of this at the clubhouse prior to playing, nor was there any discount given because of the greens conditions. The greens were absolutely horrible. it was almost unplayable. We’ve been having a drought in Georgia, and that hasn’t helped the grass at all. That being said, the greens were in horrendous condition. There is major construction going on with Tree Removal at the second hole and 18th hole tee boxes, which share a box. All in all, the conditions were far subpar, the cart paths were chewed up, pitted, and rooty … And the Marshall was telling us we needed to speed up because we would be slowing people down behind us, when in reality we were up against the foursome in front of us. This is the second time the same Marshall has done the exact same thing on a weekend day. Not nicely, actually pretty snippy about it. Just not a fun place to play. We may take a chance and play there again next year, but as for this year, for this amount of money and the marshal-hassle and greens conditions, we are done at this location.

Good layout. The course was maintained well. The cart lady came out often with the high temps.

Starter let the group behind us start before us when everyone in my group was on time for some reason…Caused some unnecessary back up throughout the round. Greens were punched recently without notifying us when we booked tee time. Holes were overgrown/not trimmed. Won’t be back.

This is my fourth time playing this course since May. It was a holiday weekend, which I expected it to be busy, but pace of play was pretty slow. My group finished in 4 1/2 hours.

This is a fun challenging course. The owners are doing a lot of renovations so I feel like every time I play the tee boxes are always moving and some of the holes have new hazards..

Overall I love it here, it’s my favorite course to play in the Athens GA area.

Small recommendation would be to serve creature comfort beer!

Have played here many times, nice course overall with fast greens. Lot of changes & future improvements in process, will get even better in time. New & much longer tees on holes 2 &18 definitely add much more challenge to those tee shots on Polar/White and Back tees, must carry tee shots much further. Only real issue was pace of play, many very slow players & groups on this day taking long time to play shots & hitting multiple extra balls with players waiting behind, but normally not a big issue most days here. Course has relaxed & laid back atmosphere overall and owners/managers are very nice plus very friendly service in the clubhouse.

They change the tee box on 2&18. Which made the holes longer way longer than they were. Still not a bad layout but definitely made the holes harder. If ya can’t hit it 260 your in non playable nonsense.

Greens were recently aerated which gave me lots of opportunities to 3 putt many of the greens. The rest of the course, save a few tee boxes was in nice shape.

Enjoyed the course, fantastic greens, fairways well kept. Only suggestion, think about put a grass tee box on #16

Super cool layout course! Very challenging course it’s not just hit a driver on all par 4s or 5s

Could find some trouble!!! A must try course you will see!!!!

Have played this course many times, like the layout overall and very friendly staff. Knew greens had been aerated the prior day so expected some challenges there, but normally greens are some of the fastest and better ones of the courses I play. Course does have a good bit of maintenance & improvement work going on, but expect overall conditions will improve with time once they take shape and progress.

Course has also installed a new tee box for holes #2 and 18, which are not reflected on the scorecard. New tee on Hole 18 makes the hole a little longer and more difficult but still a fun hole, while the new white tee box on Hole 2 to convert the hole from a par 4 to a par 5 is FAR too difficult and long of a carry for at least 80% of recreational golfers who play white tees. I hit a very nice solid tee shot that stuck into the forced carry hazard area after flying approx 215 yards in the air from the tee, as a straight tee shot toward the fairway now requires about a 230-yard carry to cover the hazard based on my GPS data, extremely difficult for most golfers. Even as a 9-10 handicap very experienced player I will not physically be able to play off the new white tees on that hole, which is very disappointing. There is no good bail out or shorter route to reach the fairway without a lot of tree and slope trouble, so this change is very negative in my opinion. Otherwise, the course met my expectations and mostly enjoyed my round, other than working around some course maintenance personnel and sprinklers on various holes.