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.

19Greens Mapped 240Elevation Contours 14.2%Steepest Slope 18Holes 72Par 7Rated Tees

Green contour map of Black Bear in Carlton, Minnesota — 240 elevation contours at a 3-inch interval with fall-line arrows, traced from 1-meter lidar — One of 19 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	Carlton, Minnesota, United States
Address	Carlton, MN
Phone	+1 218-878-2485
Holes	18
Par	72
Tees on the card	7, 7 USGA-rated
Greens mapped	19
Elevation contours	240
Contour interval	3-inch
Largest green elevation span	6.0 ft
Steepest measured slope	14.2%
Course map	Traced hole by hole
Wind modeling	Live wind grid, 16 directions
Tree canopy	1-meter canopy height model
Course data updated	2026-08-11

The card

Tees

6,057 yds · Par 72 · Rating 70.6 · Slope 131

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out
Par	4	4	5	3	4	3	5	4	4	36
Yards	353	344	435	184	321	152	469	329	421	3,008
Hcp	11	17	7	13	9	15	1	5	3

Hole	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In
Par	4	3	4	5	4	4	3	4	5	36
Yards	382	130	344	461	374	359	148	382	469	3,049
Hcp	14	16	10	4	6	12	18	8	2

Total72 Yards6,057

Hole	Par	Yards	Hcp
1	4	353	11
2	4	344	17
3	5	435	7
4	3	184	13
5	4	321	9
6	3	152	15
7	5	469	1
8	4	329	5
9	4	421	3
Out	36	3,008
10	4	382	14
11	3	130	16
12	4	344	10
13	5	461	4
14	4	374	6
15	4	359	12
16	3	148	18
17	4	382	8
18	5	469	2
In	36	3,049
Total	72	6,057

Course rating and slope

Tee	Yards	Par	Rating / Slope
Blue	6,560	72	73.1 / 139
White	6,057	72	70.6 / 131 75.9 / 133 (W)
Gold	5,383	72	67.5 / 126 72.1 / 125 (W)
Red	5,072	72	66.1 / 123 70.4 / 121 (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 Golf Course green by green: 19 putting surfaces traced with 240 elevation contours from USGS 3DEP 1-meter lidar. The steepest measured slope on these greens tilts at 14.2 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 Golf Course 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.

GolfCore maps courses from public elevation data and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Black Bear. Represent this club? Request changes or removal through our contact page.