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Nice at check in and staff went out of their way to call me after I left my range finder. Thank you. Lots of hidden ponds just over mounds. A course guide or layout on the scorecard would have been nice. Practice greens were awful but course greens were pretty good. Poor range....off mats hitting water balls in to the lake range. Never liked those. But people were extremely friendly so give it a try. Also, the turn on the Forest does not take you back to the clubhouse...fyi.

Fairways, greens, layout are great. I've never seen a course completely re-pave their cartpaths but this course needs it very, very badly. That and some improved tee boxes are the only drawbacks. The cartpath improvement would drastically improve word of mouth reviews.

I couldn't wait to write this review!.... We chose Bear Slide from some locals that mentioned it, and travelled from out of state for a race weekend. We played on a scorching hot (97*) Saturday. We might have waited for less than 5 minutes on a group in front of us on a front nine par 3 but had no other hold ups, nor did we have anyone behind us on a single hole. When we came off 9 to make the turn, a ranger came up to me and pointed his finger in my face and very loudly said " I want to talk to you! 2 hours and 20 minutes is completely unacceptable. We expect you to keep up. You've been slow since the first hole!" He then berated our other cart for not adhering to a cart path sign on the 9th hole. Screaming at us!! We were the first to admit that we didn't see that particular sign and at no time did we purposely break any rule. I'm a 4 handicapper.. I've been on few courses in my life. We played in 4:40. Completely "acceptable" in my books for a scorching hot day, a course we've never played, very penalizing rough, a mixed group of handicaps (from 4 to 17) in our pairing, and pretty fast greens.
So about the course.... good course. It would be nice to have one more set of tees. Too big of a gap between 5900 and close to 6600 yards. That was long 6600 yards with the rough the course presents.
The head pro did go talk to the ranger and said it could have been handled better. TIp to ranger.... " Hey guys, it seems like you might have been just a tad slow on the time on the front, anything you guys can do to speed up, I'd appreciate. And please take special notice of all cart signs, it looks like you missed that one back there on 9. Thanks guys, have a good day, let us know if we can help". That's customer service where I come from and would have kept me coming back again. Not now. Buyer beware.