Grand Traverse Resort, The Bear Golf Course

Grand Traverse Resort & Spa is a Resort, 54 hole golf facility located in Acme, Michigan. Grand Traverse Resort & Spa has 3 championship 18 hole golf courses. Each of their three signature courses has a noted designer. The Bear by Jack Nicklaus, the Wolverine by Gary Player and Spruce Run by William Newcomb.

Jack Nicklaus's signature course, The Bear, is named for the fierce and cunning Michigan forest-dweller, it's a links-style course featuring Scottish terraced fairways, tiered greens, deep grassy roughs, moguls, mounds, and deep pot bunkers. Lakes, ponds, hardwood forests, streams, and fruit orchards are home to a variety of wildlife that gives The Bear its character: golf in the midst of wild nature. The course has 4 lakes and 10 holes with water hazards.

Regarding The Bear, Jack Nicklaus said, "The people who play here are going to have a challenge and also have some fun, whatever level of golfer they might be, with rolling land, trees, lakes, streams and flatland, you have a mixture of different features that you rarely see on one course. That's what makes this course unique. No two holes are similar." 

The Bears signature hole is #13, a par-3, 167 yards long from the blue tees, over water.

Black tees: par-72, 7,078 yards, 76.3 / 148

Blue tees: par-72, 6,618 yards, 73.2 / 144

White tees: par-72, 6,129 yards, 71.2 / 140

Red tees: par-72, 5,281 yards, 73.4 / 139