Black Bear Golf Club

Friendly staff, the Organisation about thunder and rainfall was very good, After waiting we could play very well. The course ist interesting, AL lot of bunkers an hills, any blind holes, good restaurant with excellent margherita.

Course in need of some TLC. Bunkers are horrible. Just needs cleaned up. Fairways and greens are ok

Course is usually in much better condition.
Greens were very slow. Some had a lot of damage.
Fairways had a lot of course grass and weeds.

Played Black Bear today. Everything was very green, but there were weeds scattered throughout fairways, some weeds on greens, and every green fringe had lots of weeds. The course is a great layout and lots of fun to play. Having played here before, the weeds were disappointing. This is not a $60 (weekday morning) golf course. Needs much more TLC to be $60 a round.

Excellent greens and layout. Fairways typical for Florida on winter.

I went to golf management school in Orlando 2004-2005 and this was one of all of our favorite courses. Then the housing market crashed and the course crashed with a different owner with course conditions and an un-needed redesign of the 18th hole. We stopped playing due to the worst course conditions I had seen at this awesome course. A few years ago we put it back into the rotation due to reviews stating what great shape it was in. We were told new ownership and they were getting it back in shape. The reviews were right and we added it back to our rotation. This trip it was a bit disappointing. Conditions weren’t as good as they had been. Some greens need some work, bunkers really need it. Either you’re removing bunkers and making changes or they aren’t. A few bunker that used to be there are now over grown or being removed slowly. Such as front of green on 4, middle of fairway on 9. Tee boxes average to average+. Fairways okay, rough okay. Just not quite where it has been the last few times. Just don’t want to see it go back to where it was. Love this track.

Black bear has a great layout. Definitely challenges your short game. Greens are small and fast. Pace of play never an issue. Staff always friendly and efficient. Ine of my favorite courses.

Played based on course ratings at nice price. Very hilly course but postage stamp sideways greens make play miserable. Miss pin by ten feet left of right put you down hills 25 feet below a green 20 feet wide. Impossible to play. Recommend to no one.

Great layout in decent shape, nice practice facility and friendly staff. Greens are mostly angled to fairways with most being elevated with deep runoff areas. You need to play this course more than once to appreciate it because you need to know where to come into the greens from the fairways or you’ll wear out your lob wedge as you won’t be able to hold the irregular shaped greens. Most greens are long and narrow and approaching them from an angle makes it almost impossible to hold your approach shots.

Was a golfnow hot deal so the price brought us in. Course appears to see lots of use and compared to others in the general area, the condition is best described as ‘used’. Great and interesting layout but definitely tough. In many spots. the margin for errant shots is minimal. Greens are tiny and areas to bail or play it safe are few and far between. Collection areas have an exciting collection of conditions. In short, an outstanding layout with lots of opportunities to improve the consistency of the conditions

Black Bear has been a favorite. Every time we play the course is always in great condition. Greens are small so short game is a must. Challenging but forgiving all at the same time.

This course is normally a reliable track to be challenging and in great shape. However, course conditions are not as expected, especially for $80 in this area. My group were in agreement that we would not be back any time soon. We chose to have lunch at the clubhouse after the round and suffice to say it was a debacle. Servers were nice but really messed up our order and food took about an hour to come out and then come out correctly.

Condition wise this is the worst I have ever seen.

The best lies anywhere to be found on the course may be in the fairways if you are lucky enough your ball didn’t land in the hundreds of unfilled divots. Poa has infested the coarse with the approaches and green fringes getting hit the hardest. It wouldn’t be so bad if those areas were mowed more than once a week. There must be a local rule not to rake the bunkers or provide the slightest maintenance, the best lies in them are on the clumps of grass growing in nearly everyone. The greens were slow and bumpy with un-repaired pitch marks all over. The tee boxes are a sandy mess and littered with tee shards. It’s very difficult to find flat place to to tee up from.

I will be requesting a refund and that GolfNow remove this course from the menu until it improves. There are far better options close by.

Booked this course last minute due to schedule change. It is located an hour north of Orlando near a small town. Greens were fair.but fairways not yet recovered from winter. Clubhouse and restrooms need a lot of updating. Prices in pro shop and restaurant were very reasonable. To be fair, at that location the revenue may not support the cost to update. One thing the owner could do at no cost is take down the signs that cover most walls and counters. While some signage is necessary, there are so many here that they are annoying and not customer friendly!

Was quite hot the day we played and the course looked to be suffering - particularly the roughs. In some places no rough grass at all and the bunkers, which I found many, were in very poor condition. In bad need of some maintenance. The 18th hole also needs a bailout area to make it playable. A poorly deigned hole