Bear Slide Golf Club

course knowledge important must be on the correct sides of fairways to have a playable shot to green, 17/18 right then left, make sure to play tee that gets you to 150, marks stay below hole , a challenging course but enjoyable will be back for sure

Links style courses are fantastic as long as your rounds are not 5-6 hours long. Too many people dpending time in the heather looking for balls.

Many hill and banker makes this course challenging. But I could enjoy very well.
Green was air ventilation timing but enough to play.
I can recommend this course well.

Great layout with lots of challenge. Courteous staff. My only advice is to the golfers who come here. This course can be mean if you pick the wrong tees. Put your "pride" aside and tee it forward for an even more enjoyable experience.

Good outdoor practice facility. On the course: Good fairways and Fast greens that were in great shape. A changing golf course, where you can score well.

Ended up with an extra day on a trip to Indy so looked around for a nice course to play. Considered a few others but this was relatively close and looked good. The weather turned a bit overnight and at the start it was pretty cool and more than a little breezy. Sun came out and layers came off on the 2nd nine. Paired up with a couple locals which really helped as there were some holes that even with my GPS and the nice guidebook on the cart it would have been tough to get good aim points. Fairways were all very good. Greens were quite fast and pretty smooth/true although a little thin - I would give that a nice. That would be really my only minor knock on the experience. Great layout, great visuals, great variety of holes, lots of elevation changes. Longer hitters should possibly play the blues but the whites were a pretty good challenge. Anyone that plays from the blacks here is a pro or crazy long. Pace of play we great. The GolfNow deal was with a cart and it would be a tough walk with some distance between green/next tee and just the elevation. All in all it was a great day of golf on a very, very, nice course. I recommend it highly and will certainly try to play it again - ideally with the same guys that I paired up with this time.

The course was in excellent shape and the pace of play was very good. I would recommend this facility to all golfers.

I have played some nice courses the past few weeks in Indiana. Rock Hollow, Trophy Club and now Bear Slide. Bear Slide is definitely one of the best. One thing I really liked was how each hole feels isolated from the next so you feel like you are out there by yourself.Bear Slide is a great layout and provides quite a challenge.

My only complaints were the fair way on #2 definitely needs some TLC and the green on the par 3 #16 was in awful shape and down to dirt in areas. I would also say the tee shot from the Blue tees on hole #15 was almost unfair with how tight it was.

Course was in great condition. Very friendly staff.

The course is very scenic and beautiful. The course condition is excellent. The greens are maintained very well. Got a birdie on hole 8, yay :)
The only problem I had was the pace of play by course members. The group of 4 behind us were rushing us, staring us down. Extremely rude for a course this nice :( They even hit a couple of balls within 10 feet of us several times.

Played as a threesome on a hot and breezy day. The course was in pretty good shape, but both greens and tees show signs of play, which is both good and bad. Despite the wide and forgiving fairways, we struggled to find them most of the day, but when we missed the course was reasonably fair in terms of giving us an out to get back in play. Found the greens to be exceptionally fast. One of my favorite tracks in the Indy area.

The course was in great condition. Surprisingly few soggy spots given all the heavy rain recently. The quality of the turf on the tee boxes, greens, and fairways is about as good as it gets for a public course.

Bear Slide is an absolutely fantastic public course. I can't wait to play it again!

The course was in excellent shape. We had not played the course for 6 or 7 years. The book on the cart helped but even with it you can get into a lot of trouble quickly. I will go back with mental notes I made and hopefully be able to shave a few more strokes off with better course management. My foursome enjoyed the challenge but this course can humble you if you miss your intended fairway targets and lay ups. Greens were as true and nice as I have played on this year.

Loved the layout and conditions despite the rain at the end of June. Only hole that had an issue was 16, where they are doing some repair work on the green. But its a fun, challenging course and worthy of its reputation.

The front 9 is pretty straightforward, but it's really hard to know how to play some holes on the back 9 until you've seen them. I'd like to have mulligans on at least 3. The book on the cart tries to help, but you really have to see these holes to play them correctly. Having said that, it's a fun course, and I'd like another crack at it now that I have a round under my belt. Good shape considering the rain, nice folks.

Great layout and alway in great shape. Best value for the money in central Indiana.

I usually play Bear Slide at least a couple times a year. The course was in good shape and the staff friendly.The only downside to the round was getting stuck behind a foursome that was playing excruciatingly slow. I was part of a twosome and with no one in front of us played the front nine in 1.5 hours. We met another twosome on the 11th tee who were behind the foursome. The foursome made no effort to let anyone play through and the twosome we met claimed a couple group had "already bailed". A ranger came through about hole number 14 and evidently said nothing to the group because nothing changed. We stuck it out and it took us just over 3 hours to play the back nine.

It seems like this is my private course whenever I play. Hate to write about how good it is for fear of not being able to play in under 4 hours but want them to have plenty of green fees to continue to pay for this well maintained and challenging course. Great value, fantastic staff and challenging course.

I played when there was a forecast of 50% chance of thunderstorms... after 3 days of heavy rain. The course was wet, but very playable. The best part of was the fact that fewer than 8 people were on the course when I played. I was able to complete the round within 3 hours. Despite the conditions, the course was in immaculate shape. I'm definitely coming back, that's for sure.