Black Bear Golf Club

This was the first time playing course and we played 36 holes. We enjoyed it very much and would recommend it to everyone. Course was in great shape and we will play it again when we are back in this area.

Nice natural setting with very few houses. "Huge piece of property.
Played early on a Sunday – from 7:15 to 10 AM – We passed the lead group on #2 and sailed through the round. No lost balls – course is very open and has generous boundaries to catch errant shots.

Some (disease?) damaged fairway grass. Greens were too fast for the slope they have. Needed to know exactly where to hit the ball to avoid 3 putts/rolling off the green below the hole.
The snaking fairways can put you in the rough but the rough is not thick, so what’s the point? Shot 79 with 35 putts – go figure. Would play again and do better knowing where not to hit the ball into the green.

This was the 2nd time I golfed Black Bear and love the views from some of the tee boxes and fairways. The greens are extremely hard to read and difficult to judge the speed of putts. I will come back to Black Bear in the near future.

When we arrived for our t time, we were told that the corse did not like golf now .com. We were told many times that they made no money off our booking. The greens and fairways were in good shape, but the sand traps are more like sand and gravel.

Beautiful fall day in Michigan. Golfing at Black Bear was great.

This course had a high slope rating, and the whole story was in the greens. Very quick and hard to hold.

19th hole is a cool feature! Played the course roughly a month ago. Could tell it'd been a dry summer. Course looks completely different now! Lush green complexes surrounding huge greens. Fairways were in decent shape, and tee boxes were in much better shape. Bunkers are edged and most are weed free! Great rates this time of year!

very nice course , but needs work - for $25.00 its a deal - $49.00 not a deal

Easy access off 75 just north of Gaylord. Great up north views from some of the elevated tees. There are several blind tee shots and a few blind shots to the greens, I think that adds character to the course. The greens can be a challenge! I had a couple putts come right back down the slope because I didn't hit them hard enough, I would play this course every day if I could.

Got a great price on the course which was a good thing. There was a crew driving around digging out sprinkler heads which made me believe that it may have just been sold and they are going to try and bring it back up to a reasonable standard

Toured this course last summer and made it a priority to play it this summer. Not sure what changed, but there are numerous dead spots on the fairways and greens now. Course has a lot of potential. It's very scenic, the greens are challenging, yet you can score well on it. Staff was very friendly and courteous. Food was real good. I would recommend to others if the problems with the course were addressed. It's tough to criticize a course that I played for $17, but again, it would be cool to see it fulfill its' potential.

Coarse is in poor shape. Tee's where burned out. Large amounts of grass clippings on greens from mowing. Some greens had scalped areas. Bunkers are in terrible condition. Coarse condition ruins great layout

This course was so dried out. The greens and fairways had burn spots all over the place. Tees were so hard you could not find a soft spot to tee from which resulted in lots of broken tees. Only thing good was your ball got a good roll after each shot.

Course played well, and has some challenging holes.

looks like no water all year...many burned out/dead areas on tees and greens...

Main attraction here is the large undulating greens, which made the course interesting. Other than that, forget it - tee boxes were burned out and full of weeds, bunkers haven't been maintained in years, and fairways must be cut once per week. It's unfortunate the course is in such bad shape - the sporty design is interesting and this course could be rated as high as 3-4 stars with better conditioning. With so many other choices in northern Michigan, I just can't play here again.

Real Nice course, the only negative comment I would have is the
bunkers were in poor condition.