Hard. Trees. Layup and placement shots all day.

The Bear is an elite course. It's challenging and very fair. You can get a birdie on almost every hole with even a few eagle opportunities, but you can also take triple bogey on nearly every hole as well. This course is about managing your shots and controlling soft landings while navagating tight woods lines. You need to know when to layup and when to get aggressive. It really makes you play golf. An awesome course on a stunning property. It doesn't get much better than The Bear.

The Bear is a humbling experience that can lead to growth. Playing this course is a gauntlet of wise decision making, demanding accuracy, inevitable scrambling, and mental toughness. A rewarding challenge like none other.

It’s amazing how far this course has come. I played it back in 2016 under previous ownership and it was unplayable (fairways w/ foot high grass and impossible to navigate). Now, course is easy to follow and very cleaned up. Extremely difficult and technical-all wooded fairways, mostly par 4s and 5s with 3s sprinkled in. Took over 2hrs to play 9 w/ 2 ppl and we’re usually pretty quick. Do not recommend for beginners, it will beat any player down. Aptly named. Overall extremely impressed w/ highbr