Crystal Springs Resort

Overall rating is very very good. Hadn’t played there for several years. Challenging course layout but manageable.

Good conditions for April, with tee boxes, fairways and rough in great shape. Bunkers need work. Greens had aeration dimples and putts were bouncing, but that’s part of necessary maintenance. Friendly staff.

Black Bear has a stellar layout and the potential to be something great. However, charging $130 to play on aerated greens with NO warning at all and having bunkers with rocks the size of softballs in them is highway robery. Our group was stuck behind two couples playing at 9:30 am on a Sunday, with only one of their foursome advancing the ball more than 20 yards at a time. They were 4-6 holes behind the group in front of them and the ranger did nothing to improve the pace of play or allow us to pass. I'll stick with Crystal Springs, Wild Turkey or Ballyowen in the comings weekends for a better experience.

This is mostly a second shot golf course with ample room to position drives. excellent array of holes, all interesting and fun. Dramatic elevation changes in many cases. water strategically placed. outstanding green complexes and bunkering. Bring your iron game and short game. For us it was early season, but even so, hitting off the fairways was a dream. Very well maintained..

Fairway was good but greens were terrible.
They punched hole and poured lots of sand on the green. I got to hit the golf ball for rolling into the hole cup.

Excellent, friendly staff.
Seeing that the greens were aerated on 3/18, figured they would have been not 100%, but at least filled in. Bumpy greens led to a lot of missed putts, and extreme speed deviation among all holes.
Conditions of tees and fairways was exceptional for early season, and played true.

It was a good course to play. Probably has better conditions in the summer. Awesome to get complementary range balls. Staff is great and friendly. Only bad side was the current conditions of the course. I get it, early in the season but charging full price for punched sanded greens and concrete bunkers should be a crime. Solid 3 star course!

Decent conditions for early march. Course drained well despite all the rain we’ve had. A challenging 9 hole layout.

If you are looking for a course to challenge your golf abilities this is the one. Every fairway is narrow with no room for forgiveness. This course was managed wonderfully even including the fact that we had frost delay. Some of the tees need updating, but other than that greens were in Shape.

We played right after rain in March so the course was soaked. The tee times were stacked up and we waited 45 minutes at the 1st tee. It kind of opened up with only short wait times at a few holes.

$150+ for a round in the winter ? This isn’t Augusta. Get real