Bear Creek Golf Club is an 18-hole private course in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

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holes

par

6,804

yards (tips)

139

slope (black)

The shape of the round · Black teespublished figures only

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: Rees Jones reported
access: private
address: 237 Whooping Crane Way, Hilton Head Island, SC, 29926
phone: 843-681-9510
website: course site →
elevation: 19 ft derived
opened: 1980
on site: driving range · restaurant · lessons

32.22627, -80.72961 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 4 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

186 traced features across 7 layers for Bear Creek Golf Club, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Holes

Fairways

Bunkers

Water

Greens

Tee pads

6,713yds

Black tees

526yds

Longest hole

175yds

Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2023-04-18

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 7 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table


Black	M	72	6804contested	6713	74.2	139	3319	3394
Blue	M	72	6486contested	6426	72.4	135	3161	3265
White	M	72	6162contested	6084	71.3	133	3004	3080
Gold	M	72	5727contested	5651	69.7	125	2769	2882
Gold	F	72	5727contested	5651	73.9	131	2769	2882
Green	F	72	5316		71.9	128	2605	2670
Green	M	72	5316		67.6	119	2605	2670

Every figure as published except Card yards (derived), which is summed from the card below and shown only where a published figure is contested; a blank cell elsewhere is one nobody publishes. Front 9 and Back 9 are summed from the per-hole yardages on the scorecard.

The Black, Blue, White and Gold tees publish a yardage total the scorecard below does not add up to. Both figures are published and nothing we hold settles which one a round plays to, so the Yards column keeps the published figure, marked contested, and each tee's own yardage row from the card below is summed beside it, marked derived.

Scorecard — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-14

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Par	4	3	4	5	4	4	5	3	4	4	4	3	5	3	4	4	4	5	72
Black	366	175	431	526	366	384	505	188	378	415	407	198	520	183	394	371	380	526	6,804
Blue	353	150	395	514	346	377	478	177	371	407	401	182	501	157	386	360	369	502	6,486
White	345	128	377	482	339	352	471	158	352	389	369	174	469	153	360	340	359	467	6,162
Gold	323	102	340	458	310	339	443	122	332	364	356	150	446	120	342	332	329	443	5,727
Green	304	93	334	427	290	316	412	106	323	336	333	130	417	106	323	310	303	412	5,316
Handicap	11	17	1	5	13	9	7	15	3	12	6	16	10	18	2	14	8	4

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Bear Creek 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 Example from another course: hole 15, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
The green, from LiDAR Example from another course: hole 15, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
Every shot, tee to green Example from another course: hole 2, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale

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Book nearby

Bear Creek Golf Club states private access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: Palmetto Hall - Robert Cupp Golf Course (1.4 mi, semi-private) · Country Club of Hilton Head (1.5 mi, semi-private) · Golden Bear Golf Club at Indigo Run (1.5 mi, public) · Palmetto Hall - Arthur Hills Golf Course (1.7 mi, semi-private)

Measured against comparable courses

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

Figure	This course	In South Carolina	Nationwide	Among its peers
Longest	6,804 yds	164th of 351	=3,488th of 12,025	36th of 56 in the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC metro area · =1,221st of 2,954 private courses · =3,463rd of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 139	=65th of 227	=1,166th of 8,710	=20th of 43 in the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC metro area · =518th of 2,300 private courses · =1,140th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 74.2	=54th of 215	=1,183rd of 7,615	=17th of 40 in the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC metro area · =514th of 2,143 private courses · =1,174th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	1,488 yds between tees	261st of 345	=5,488th of 11,523	46th of 54 in the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC metro area · 1,599th of 2,885 private courses · =5,408th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1980	=101st of 253	=5,425th of 9,368	=13th of 46 in the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC metro area · =1,602nd of 2,418 private courses · =3,849th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	19 ft derived	=270th of 374	=11,499th of 12,437	=14th of 60 in the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC metro area · =2,770th of 3,026 private courses · =8,363rd of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

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 7 sets of tees.
Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 7 sets of tees.
Course map, built.All 18 greens drawn, with the fairways, bunkers and water, over aerial imagery.
Per-hole distances, built.Every hole is traced, so carries and distances to the front, middle and back of each green are measured along the line you actually play.
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.

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Sources

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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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