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Great Bear Golf Club is an 18-hole semi-private course in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.

Designed by Jack Nicklaus. It plays 7,025 yards from the Black tees, rated 73.5/143 (checked 2026-08-20).

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18
holes
71
par
7,025
yards (tips)
143
slope (black)
The shape of the round · Black teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLACK TEES376189455514462436175578373460222405199451523191441575142334455464738594104113124133144155163174185PAROUT 3,558 YDSIN 3,467 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
semi-private
address
1 Great Bear Court, East Stroudsburg, PA, 18302
phone
570-223-2000
elevation
507 ft derived
opened
1997
on site
lessons

41.05455, -75.05814 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. Holes 4 and 5: lines and greens predicted by a model from USDA NAIP aerial imagery. Other holes: traced by OpenStreetMap contributors. The course outline is inferred from the mapped holes — OpenStreetMap has no outline for this course, so the shaded area is our own and the real property line may sit wider or tighter. 12 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one. The map below draws everything that has been traced, and the hole lines the model predicted.

186 features across 7 layers for Great Bear Golf Club, 182 traced and 4 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery.

Use arrow keys to pan, plus and minus to zoom. Tab reaches the map controls.

186 features across 7 layers for Great Bear Golf Club, 182 traced and 4 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Holes 4 and 5 predicted from USDA NAIP imagery · Contains information from SatlasPretrain, which is made available under the ODC Attribution License

18
Holes
20
Fairways
46
Bunkers
3
Water
18
Greens
62
Tee pads
7,025yds
Black tees
578yds
Longest hole
175yds
Shortest hole

182 imported from OpenStreetMap and the lines and greens of holes 4 and 5 predicted by a model from aerial imagery, hole lines and edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2022-04-29 – 2022-04-30

Tees & ratings

Ratingsreported, not from the clubchecked 2026-08-20

Yardagesfrom the clubchecked 2026-08-20

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

Sorted by Yards, descending. 6 rows.

BlackM71702573.514335583467
GoldM71653771.513932933244
BlueM71610569.813530833022
WhiteM71575468.213329142840
WhiteF71575474.013729142840
RedF71494969.112926032346

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

Scorecardfrom the clubchecked 2026-08-20

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 434544354434345345 71
Black 376189455514462436175578373460222405199451523191441575 7,025
Gold 339183426495413395157548337424196383178437508166417535 6,537
Blue 323162403475393375127503322389182362162388492146387514 6,105
White 308155384466375340112483291369168341135359477133366492 5,754
Red 2791273414373113009644726530215328511521140897327448 4,949
Handicap 119153151771381421610121846

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Great 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.

© OpenStreetMap contributors

Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Great 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: Pocono Hills Golf Course (2.2 mi) · The Poconos Club (2.7 mi) · Red White at Shawnee Inn Golf Resort (4.6 mi) · White Blue at Shawnee Inn Golf Resort (5.0 mi)

Measured against comparable courses

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

FigureThis courseIn PennsylvaniaNationwideAmong its peers
Longest7,025 yds=49th of 639=1,668th of 12,0251st of 17 in the East Stroudsburg, PA area · =184th of 2,030 semi-private courses · =755th of 7,004 courses you can book · =1,662nd of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 143=23rd of 447=487th of 8,7101st of 13 in the East Stroudsburg, PA area · =39th of 1,395 semi-private courses · =157th of 4,936 courses you can book · =477th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 73.5=90th of 408=1,989th of 7,6152nd of 12 in the East Stroudsburg, PA area · =233rd of 1,141 semi-private courses · =841st of 4,145 courses you can book · =1,973rd of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread2,076 yds between tees49th of 607=1,877th of 11,5232nd of 16 in the East Stroudsburg, PA area · 274th of 1,970 semi-private courses · =884th of 6,653 courses you can book · =1,839th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1997=423rd of 493=7,397th of 9,36814th of 15 in the East Stroudsburg, PA area · =1,233rd of 1,516 semi-private courses · =4,233rd of 5,526 courses you can book · =5,419th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level507 ft derived =452nd of 653=7,154th of 12,43713th of 17 in the East Stroudsburg, PA area · 1,196th of 2,089 semi-private courses · =4,619th of 7,274 courses you can book · =5,083rd 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 progress4 of 6 built

4 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. Holes 4 and 5 are predicted from aerial imagery; OpenStreetMap traced the rest.
  • Per-hole distances, built.Every hole has a line of play, so carries and distances to the front, middle and back of each green are measured along it. Holes 4 and 5 are predicted from aerial imagery; OpenStreetMap traced the rest.
  • 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 2026-08-25. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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Red White at Shawnee Inn Golf Resort

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White Blue at Shawnee Inn Golf Resort

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Blue Red at Shawnee Inn Golf Resort

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Terra Greens Golf Course

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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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