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Bears Best Atlanta is an 18-hole public golf course in Suwanee, Georgia.

Designed by Jack Nicklaus. It plays 6,824 yards from the Gold tees, rated 73.3/143 (checked 2026-08-14).

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18
holes
72
par
6,824
yards (tips)
143
slope (gold)
The shape of the round · Gold teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — GOLD TEES429369148355414154579409554339180521417559348167415467142433445463758495104113125134145154163174184PAROUT 3,411 YDSIN 3,413 YDSFIRST NINESECOND NINE
The published card in playing order, 18 holes with the two nines split — hole number under each bar, its par below that.

The course

designer
Jack Nicklaus reported
access
public
address
5342 Aldeburgh Dr, Suwanee, GA 30024, USA
phone
678-714-2582
elevation
1,003 ft derived
opened
2002
on site
driving range · restaurant

34.08528, -84.10597 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 29 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

231 traced features across 8 layers for Bears Best Atlanta, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery.

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231 traced features across 8 layers for Bears Best Atlanta, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

18
Holes
21
Fairways
76
Bunkers
7
Water
18
Greens
68
Tee pads
6,824yds
Gold tees
579yds
Longest hole
148yds
Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2023-10-09

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 6 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 6 rows.

GoldM72682473.314334113413
NicklausM72651371.914032173296
BlueM72613870.113730293109
WhiteF72562473.713528052819
WhiteM72562468.012628052819
RedF72472568.712122522473

Every figure as published; a blank cell is one nobody publishes. Front 9 and Back 9 are summed from the per-hole yardages on the scorecard.

Scorecard — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-14

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 443443545435454344 72
Gold 429369148355414154579409554339180521417559348167415467 6,824
Nicklaus 405337145353399151519379529331177518413556342163375421 6,513
Blue 390314134316360147489370509323163475381532316151355413 6,138
White 387296110292338121481306474315155414352506279141301356 5,624
Red 342172781822709942825442728280386308432275128277305 4,725
Handicap 313151719115712416681814102

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Bears Best Atlanta hole by hole, for your game.

Ask in plain words. The Studio draws each hole on the aerial photo, picks a club for each shot from your carries and the way you miss, and shows where a miss costs you strokes. Where a green was surveyed, it reads the slope too.

  • The approach, planned A Studio approach map on the aerial photo: a lob wedge aimed at the island green, its spread drawn as a dashed ring over the water, and the side it most often misses. Example from another course: hole 15, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
  • The green, from LiDAR A Studio green view on the aerial photo: arrows for the slope a LiDAR survey measured, the area a cup could be cut, and the safer side to miss. Example from another course: hole 15, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
  • Every shot, tee to green A Studio plan on the aerial photo of a desert par 4: the driver off the tee and a 7-iron into the green between the bunkers, each shot with its landing spread drawn as a dashed ring. Example from another course: hole 2, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale

Plan this course in the Studio

Pictures: Studio output for a sample golfer, drawn 2026-10-15. The Studio needs a free account. AI can make mistakes.

© OpenStreetMap contributors

Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Bears Best Atlanta's own booking page rather than quoting a figure that was true the week we captured it.

Check tee times and rates

Also bookable nearby: St Marlo Country Club (2.4 mi) · Peachtree Golf Center (4.9 mi)

Measured against comparable courses

How hard and how long this course plays against comparable courses — never how good it is.

FigureThis courseIn GeorgiaNationwideAmong its peers
Longest6,824 yds132nd of 406=3,284th of 12,02552nd of 139 in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro area · =814th of 4,105 public courses · =1,549th of 7,004 courses you can book · =3,260th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 143=25th of 270=487th of 8,710=14th of 109 in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro area · =76th of 2,882 public courses · =157th of 4,936 courses you can book · =477th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 73.3=89th of 242=2,254th of 7,61539th of 100 in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro area · =485th of 2,412 public courses · =959th of 4,145 courses you can book · =2,235th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread2,099 yds between tees85th of 396=1,768th of 11,52330th of 136 in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro area · =424th of 3,841 public courses · =841st of 6,653 courses you can book · =1,731st of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 2002=260th of 303=8,434th of 9,368111th of 120 in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro area · =2,960th of 3,277 public courses · =4,979th of 5,526 courses you can book · =6,260th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level1,003 ft derived =96th of 410=3,403rd of 12,437=56th of 139 in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro area · =1,255th of 4,289 public courses · =2,206th of 7,274 courses you can book · =2,332nd of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

A published figure is compared only against the courses that publish it too, which is why the totals differ from row to row — a state's length field is the courses with a scorecard, not the courses in the state. Height above sea level is the exception: we derive it from a coordinate, so its field is very nearly every course we render. Ties share an ordinal and are marked =. How this is computed →

What's on this page

In progress3 of 6 built

3 of 6 parts of this course page are built, and we're filling in the rest.

  • Scorecard, built.Par and yardage for every hole, from 6 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 6 sets of tees.
  • Course map, built.All 18 greens drawn, with the fairways, bunkers and water, over aerial imagery.
  • Per-hole distances, not built yet.We can't tie the mapped playing line to the published hole distances, so we're not showing distances here.
  • Green contours, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course yet.
  • Course details, partly built.6 of 7 background details — we don't hold the grass on the greens.

The site is in beta and the database is still being built, so expect gaps. Know something we don't? Help us fill it in — a link to where it's published is worth more than anything else you could send.

Sources

Gathered from the course's own site and public records — every figure on this page is traceable to who published it and when. Spot an error or a gap? Tell us.

Location and identity seeded from OpenStreetMap — © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Last checked 2026-08-14. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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Straight-line distance from this course's coordinates, within 60 miles — not driving distance, and it crosses state lines where the nearest courses are over one.

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