Bear Creek

At any rate, players will find a route every bit as heroic and challenging as The Bear’s owns designs, as Palmer and Seay traverse across mountain streams and the mountains themselves. One element that players should pay special attention to is the size of the greens; the small putting surfaces leave little room for error upon approach.

Most daunting is No. 13: Although just 170 yards from the back tees (on a 7,200-yard route), the tees are situated high on a hill, hitting down to a pancake of a green, which is maybe four-times as wide as it is deep, and sits in front of a pond. A par will win most of the time on this hole, as doing the math to figure out the impact of the drop upon the final distance, and then executing the shot, will stump most golfers.