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| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grizzly | 72 | 7005 yards | 73.9 | 136 |
| Black | 72 | 6535 yards | 71.7 | 132 |
| Silver | 72 | 5940 yards | 68.6 | 129 |
| Silver (W) | 72 | 5940 yards | 75.2 | 135 |
| Green | 72 | 5195 yards | 68.6 | 129 |
| Green (W) | 72 | 5195 yards | 70.8 | 123 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black M: 72.8/138 | 365 | 460 | 175 | 510 | 410 | 184 | 335 | 530 | 410 | 3379 | 414 | 510 | 200 | 355 | 405 | 558 | 240 | 288 | 442 | 3412 | 6791 |
| Blue M: 71.3/134 | 345 | 430 | 166 | 500 | 390 | 175 | 325 | 510 | 386 | 3227 | 407 | 490 | 195 | 335 | 385 | 530 | 210 | 282 | 418 | 3252 | 6479 |
| White M: 69.8/128 W: 75.8/139 | 340 | 368 | 142 | 490 | 375 | 158 | 300 | 445 | 358 | 2976 | 395 | 480 | 180 | 310 | 375 | 479 | 166 | 257 | 383 | 3025 | 6001 |
| Yellow M: 64.8/115 W: 70.2/122 | 290 | 350 | 130 | 420 | 335 | 120 | 250 | 385 | 323 | 2603 | 320 | 435 | 145 | 280 | 290 | 393 | 138 | 214 | 260 | 2475 | 5078 |
| Orange M: 62.2/104 W: 66.2/117 | 245 | 296 | 115 | 352 | 275 | 115 | 240 | 328 | 275 | 2241 | 245 | 363 | 119 | 275 | 245 | 345 | 125 | 205 | 255 | 2177 | 4418 |
| Handicap | 15 | 3 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 12 | 14 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 18 | 4 | |||
| Par | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 36 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 36 | 72 |
| Handicap (W) | 13 | 5 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 17 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 16 | 18 | 6 |
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Great time for my first trip to Bear Creek.
I had a blast today and can't wait to visit them again. The lodge is very nice and the staff is very friendly.
Nice course
It was a cool day with spitting rain in the early hours. Even with that the course was in great shape. Staff are very friendly.
Thank you for your great review of Bear Creek Golf Club! We appreciate your feedback and are glad you enjoyed your time here (even with the rain)! Please come back and see us again soon!
Thank you for your excellent review of Bear Creek Golf Course! We are pleased to know you had a great experience. Come see us again soon.
Worth the money
This course is very close to my home so I play it frequently. The price I find on golfnow is usually worth it. I love the layout, it forces you to hit the ball straight as anything left or right off the tee is going to severely limit you or likely be OB. My only complaint are the greens aren't where they should be, not a very true roll. Also a lot of the 2nd cut and the rough have dead patches where you are hitting off of dry dirt. Around the green these patches are annoying as you can be 2 feet off the green and have a bad shot at the ball because the grass is uneven and you may be on the front side of crab grass. However, as I mentioned the prices I find on this site are usually worth it, and I will continue to play here.
Thank you so much for the great review! We have begun rolling the greens this week so they should smooth out and speed up some. Course improvements are continuous, so your feedback is much appreciated!
Thank you so much for your great review of Bear Creek Golf Course! We are very pleased that you enjoyed the course and hope to see you again soon.
Thank you for your review of the course! We hope to see you again soon.
Thank you for the excellent review! Come out and see us again soon.
Thank you for taking the time to review our course! We hope to see you again soon.
Do Not Book on Line
If you book on Line and they happen to be behind, which they usually are, they will not accommodate you or release you from your pre paid tee time. If you book as a single on golf now, you will get paired up as they are usually behind in tee times and the round is slow. The old guys at the desk aren't very friendly and they seem to think their course is the only one in the area worth playing. If you book a late tee time on golf now, they may have 3 groups of walk ups that can tee off in front of you, and again, no refund will be given when the slowness of the round will not be completed before dark. Overall, this is a nice course, but it has horrible management.
Thank you so much for you review, we book a lot of tee times on line and the Hot Deal from golf now tee times at our course are almost 100% sold out each day. Unfortunately, this hot deal discounted time you choose to purchase does not give you a lot of latitude. We do require you to play with other players booked at that time, you must share a cart with others in your group and you must tee off at the time you reserved. Unfortunately the Hot Deal times do not come with refund privileges due to the deep discounts provided. We have other tee times in the morning that play at a much faster pace, we have memberships that we sell that will give you much more freedom but unfortunately they come at a higher price. We understand your desire to play as a single and play fast but that can sometimes be uncommon if playing during the busy times. We are a popular choice for public golf so please try us another time.
Going down hill
The course is in disrepair. Sand traps were completely unkempt, fairways were mowed to the dirt, tees were not in good shape and the greens were slower than my back yard and about as bumpy. I was saddens by this condition because it is a great layout. I would not play it again even for the hot time rate.
Thank you for your feedback! We are very sorry your round was not what you expected. Like many courses, we really enjoy having the "Hot Deal" customer give us their feedback. We will try and do better next time, so please try us again!
Skip this until next year
This course must have about a one-man maintenance crew. The greens are apparently being mowed once a week, if that. There is no sand in the many bunkers; it's like trying to play out of a dry river bed: hard pan clay. If they are not going to maintain their bunkers, they should fill them in and make them grass bunkers. They have mowed the dormant zoysia fairways almost down to the dirt. Play elsewhere: even a hot deal isn't worth it. It takes forever to play, with no course marshals. Perhaps next spring this place will be better.
Thank you for your feedback! We have received a lot of positive feedback on the course this year so your response is important to us. Please try us again in the spring!
Richard Sheldon
While few golfers were on the course in front of us, we had a twosome of beginners that really slowed the pace of our game. The course needs to have a ranger that will keep up the pace of play. After the first nine holes, they did let us go through and we never looked back.
Thanks for recommending the course and taking the time to review it! We apologize for the slow play and hope you will come back soon!
Pairing
I've played this course many times, my problem with the course is you'll never have a quick round. Every time I book a twosome with a friend, we get paired up with another twosome. Normally I wouldn't mind that, but by the fifth hole, we have twosomes and singles coming up behind us, how does this seem right to anyone? My friend and I have played rounds under two hours by ourselves, we both are single digit handicaps and the fastest round we've ever had here is close to five hours. They'd be better served not to pair up groups and let people play through naturally. If you pair up two twosomes who didn't want to play together to begin with, why would we want to let a twosome play through? They would have never caught us to begin with.
I like the course but my patience with it are running thin.
I selected yes to recommending to a friend, but I would definitely warn them about the pace of play
Thank you so much for your great feedback! On most weekdays when we are not busy we do allow twosomes and singles to tee off and play alone. When we get to Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays, when play is much heavier, we do try to pair all groups up to maximize our tee sheet. This keeps the green fee prices as low as possible. When a majority of the groups in front of you are playing at a foursomes pace we try not to let twosomes and singles play alone because we know the pace for them will seem extremely slow. The single and twosome that came up from behind you probably separated once on the course to try and play faster, but once they caught up with you and saw the groups in front of you they realized that was not a good idea. As we enter into Fall and Winter the course will be much more open so please try us again.
Fun Round - but Fall season is hard on course
This course is a great challenge - and with the multiple tees, allows space for players of all skill levels. Unfortunately, dry conditions interspersed with heavy rain make it a challenge to keep all the grounds in top playing shape. It appears they have allowed the greens to grow (some had been aerated) to help keep them alive/healthy. This leads to some consternation when putting. Overall a fun round - if only I could hit it a little straighter!
Thank you for reviewing the course and we are glad you had a fun time! We aerated about a week ago to maintain the great conditions that we all love to play on. Please come back and play again soon when our greens are back to their usual selves!
Aerated greens
Golf now should establish some kind of link with the courses when maintenance is being done
Thanks for taking the time to review the course. We hope you enjoyed the aerated green lunch special!
Bear Creek
Course, especially the fairways are in great shape.
The green tees were just right for seniors and the green fees were very reasonable.
The staff was very friendly and the clubhouse food both economical and tasty.
Thank you for reviewing the course and we are glad you enjoyed it! Please come and see us again soon!
Challenging layout
Nice course, variety of hole layout and shot types needed. The boxes and bunkers need attention. Fairways and greens in decent condition.
Thank you for reviewing our course and for your recommendation. We look forwarding to seeing you in the future!
Slow play
Tee time was 11:56. Was not allowed to tee off until 12:35. Pace of play was extremely slow. No marshals on course to speed up play. Took 5 1/2 hours to play 18.
Thank you so much for taking the time to review our course. We apologize about the pace of play on the day that you played. We had a pre-booked outing that morning thathad more players than we originally thought, which crowded our tee sheet a little more than we anticipated. We are very sorry about this inconvenience and hope you will return again to see that these are not our normal conditions.
Bad condition
I have played Bear Creek plenty of times when I find a cheap deal on golf now and that would be the only time I would play this course. They charge as if its a private country club, but really it shouldn't be over $20 for a round. Hole 6 had weeds all over the green and just huge dead spots on it. Hole 4 had so much sand on the green that when you hit your putt it would kick up sand.
They had a tournament the same day we played. They had us paired with another twosome which was fine because they were nice, but everything felt rushed. Again I would play this course again if the price was under $20, just be careful
Thank you for your review of our course. Considering the heat and rain conditions this summer has brought us, the course is in fantastic condition. #6 green has some spots and weeks on it, but is putting fine. We have top-dressed #3, #4, and #6 greens to smooth out ball marks. We do enforce a program to keep the pace of play up, not to rush golfers, but to keep the pace for everyone's enjoyment. Please try us again. We think you will be very pleased.
Nice course
I booked the round thru Golfnow and got a great deal. Clubhouse was very nice and the pro was also very polite.
Just a few complaints about the course, the greens were not good. They were either full of weeds or dying grass. The same with the tee boxes. Fairways were very good, well trimmed and manicured.
My only other problem was that on 2 of the holes, the grounds people just kind of stayed by us as we were trying to address the ball. They kept the mowers running despite the fact we were trying to finish the hole.
I will play this course again because I enjoy the layout but hope the greens keeper are a little more patient when players are playing the holes
Thank you for reviewing our course and for your recommendation. We apologize about the inconvenience of the mowing during your round. We have been trying our best to keep up with mowing despite wet conditions and have to take advantage of dry time as much as possible. We hope that in the future this will not be an issue during your round again. We look forward to seeing you back on the course!
Good value
Some of the greens are perfect and some are very rough
Thank you for taking the time to review our course. We have been battling periods of heat and periods of significant rain throughout this summer which have caused us to have to work hard to keep up with the course conditions. We appreciate your recommendation of our course and hope you will return to see that rough conditions are not always our norm.
Thank you for your great review of Bear Creek Golf Club! We appreciate the feedback and are so glad you enjoyed your time here. Please come back and see us again soon!