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Black Bear Golf Club is an 18-hole course in Franklin, New Jersey.

Designed by Jack Kurlander/David Glenz. It plays 6,673 yards from the Black tees, rated 72.4/129 (checked 2026-08-15).

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18
holes
72
par
6,673
yards (tips)
129
slope (black)
The shape of the round · Black teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLACK TEES384506445406195566204343441382148385555164275496389389142534445365738494104113124135143154165174184PAROUT 3,490 YDSIN 3,183 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 Kurlander/David Glenz reported
address
NJ 23;CR 517, Franklin, NJ, 07439
phone
855-977-6473
elevation
630 ft derived
opened
1996

41.11383, -74.57776 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 8 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

203 traced features across 8 layers for Black Bear Golf Club, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery.

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203 traced features across 8 layers for Black Bear Golf Club, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

18
Holes
21
Fairways
62
Bunkers
1
Water
18
Greens
50
Tee pads
6,673yds
Black tees
566yds
Longest hole
148yds
Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2023-09-01

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

All 5 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 5 rows.

BlackM72667372.412934903183
BlueM72633470.712633153019
WhiteM72588368.612330752812
WhiteF72588374.313230752812
RedF72478567.812024962289

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 2026-08-15

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 454435344434534544 72
Black 384506445406195566204343441382148385555164275496389389 6,673
Blue 369484422396185535193311420360143370528154255480357372 6,334
White 349451394386158500142295400335123350496137234455340342 5,883
Red 240382329310120437122251305266103335366111164380267297 4,785
Handicap 911151713715381842161412610

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Black Bear Golf Club 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.

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Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Black Bear Golf Club'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: Cascades Golf Course (3.6 mi) · Skyview Golf Club (5.4 mi)

Measured against comparable courses

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

FigureThis courseIn New JerseyNationwideAmong its peers
Longest6,673 yds135th of 302=4,570th of 12,025159th of 404 in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area · =4,538th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 129=129th of 210=4,131st of 8,710=191st of 300 in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area · =4,016th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 72.4103rd of 194=3,480th of 7,615=144th of 275 in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area · =3,444th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread1,888 yds between tees43rd of 290=2,882nd of 11,52340th of 386 in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area · =2,835th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1996=172nd of 232=7,209th of 9,368=254th of 316 in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area · =5,267th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level630 ft derived 12th of 307=6,333rd of 12,43718th of 409 in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area · =4,506th 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 5 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 5 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.5 of 7 background details — we don't hold whether it is public or private and 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 2026-08-15. 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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