Black Bear drawn from GolfCore's traced course vectors — fairways, tees, greens, bunkers and water, in the app's own colors. This is the same geometry the app maps a round on.

18Greens Mapped 384Elevation Contours 17.1%Steepest Slope 18Holes 72Par 8Rated Tees

Green contour map of Black Bear in Vanderbilt, Michigan — 384 elevation contours at a 3-inch interval with fall-line arrows, traced from 1-meter lidar — One of 18 mapped greens at Black Bear, drawn from GolfCore's contour data baked from USGS 3DEP 1-meter lidar, in the same colors the app uses. Elevation bands run cool-low to warm-high; white lines are contours at a 3-inch interval, and dark arrows point down the fall line.

The course, by the numbers

Location	Vanderbilt, Michigan, United States
Address	1500 Alexander Road, Vanderbilt, MI
Holes	18
Par	72
Tees on the card	8, 8 USGA-rated
Greens mapped	18
Elevation contours	384
Contour interval	3-inch
Largest green elevation span	8.7 ft
Steepest measured slope	17.1%
Course map	Traced hole by hole
Wind modeling	Live wind grid, 16 directions
Tree canopy	1-meter canopy height model
Course data updated	2026-09-01

The card

Tees

5,747 yds · Par 72 · Rating 69.0 · Slope 128

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out
Par	4	3	4	4	5	3	5	4	4	36
Yards	331	165	359	323	495	113	459	302	316	2,863
Hcp	11	9	7	3	1	17	5	13	15

Hole	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In
Par	4	5	3	4	4	5	3	4	4	36
Yards	362	468	176	328	322	430	120	348	330	2,884
Hcp	6	2	12	10	14	4	18	16	8

Total72 Yards5,747

Hole	Par	Yards	Hcp
1	4	331	11
2	3	165	9
3	4	359	7
4	4	323	3
5	5	495	1
6	3	113	17
7	5	459	5
8	4	302	13
9	4	316	15
Out	36	2,863
10	4	362	6
11	5	468	2
12	3	176	12
13	4	328	10
14	4	322	14
15	5	430	4
16	3	120	18
17	4	348	16
18	4	330	8
In	36	2,884
Total	72	5,747

Course rating and slope

Tee	Yards	Par	Rating / Slope
Black	6,272	72	71.1 / 145 76.9 / 148 (W)
White	5,747	72	69.0 / 128 74.2 / 139 (W)
Gold	5,223	72	66.9 / 119 71.6 / 133 (W)
Red	4,431	72	62.9 / 111 67.5 / 119 (W)

Hole data is what GolfCore holds for the course's layout. Picking a tee shows that tee's own yardages, pars and stroke indexes where the club has rated them. Clubs correct their own data in the app.

What GolfCore has for Black Bear

GolfCore's library covers Black Bear Gc green by green: 18 putting surfaces traced with 384 elevation contours from USGS 3DEP 1-meter lidar. The steepest measured slope on these greens tilts at 17.1 percent — the difference between a putt that dies at the hole and one that runs four feet past.

In the app, players and caddies read the same data live on the course: contour bands with fall-line arrows, wind simulated at the player's position, and pin positions that clubs on GolfCore set each morning. Black Bear Gc is one of more than six thousand courses GolfCore has mapped green by green.

For clubs, the same system runs the tee sheet and the caddie yard — assignments off real tee times, SMS confirmations, and a caddie network that spans every club on the platform. Read how caddie management on GolfCore works.

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Staff at Black Bear can claim this course by signing in with an email address at the club's own domain. That sets the club up on GolfCore with you as an administrator.

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