The only state owned and operated golf course in the Pelican State, the pay-and-play layout at Black Bear Golf Club offers an interesting variety of tree-lined and open holes.
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The only state owned and operated golf course in the Pelican State, the pay-and-play layout at Black Bear Golf Club offers an interesting variety of tree-lined and open holes.
Black Bear
Situated within the Poverty Point Reservoir State Park, the course at Black Bear Golf Club is a Bechtol-Russell co-design which debuted in 2006. Owned and operated by Louisiana State Parks, it’s a daily fee facility that also offers visiting golfers on-site accommodation in comfortable lodges and cabins.
A 3,000-acre man-made lake is the sporting focal point of the State Park, providing a variety of water related recreational activities, but the course sits to the north of this enormous water hazard, with open and tree-lined fairways winding their way across the Macon Ridge.
Measuring 7,200 yards from the back tees, the Black Bear course attracts a strong slope rating of 141 so it’s more than capable of testing up-and-coming professional players when they tee it up here at Adams Pro Tour events.
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