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The Golf Club at Bear Dance is an 18-hole public mountain course at 6630 Bear Dance Drive in Larkspur, Colorado. It opened in 2002 and was designed and built by PGA professionals Corey Aurand, Stuart Bruening, Dennis Hogan and Brian Whitcomb through Southwest Greens of Colorado. The championship layout plays to par 72 and reaches 7,726 yards from the Professional tees, rated 74.8 with a slope of 141.
The course occupies 753 acres at an average elevation of roughly 6,800 feet, with routing through ponderosa pine, oak-lined ridges, native-grass valleys and substantial elevation change. Bear Dance is also home to the Colorado Section of the PGA of America. The club has repeatedly been voted the leading public course along Colorado's Front Range, including its published 2014-2025 run.
The course is an 18-hole mountain golf course. It plays to par 72, 7,726 yards, course rating 74.8 and slope rating 141. Designed by Corey Aurand and Stuart Bruening and Dennis Hogan and Brian Whitcomb, the course originally opened in 2002. It is open to the public. On-site facilities include Driving Range, Golf Shop, Golf Lessons, Putting Green, Chipping Area, TrackMan Simulator, Restaurant, Pub, and 3 more.
Bear Dance was created by Southwest Greens of Colorado as a major public golf project south of Denver. PGA professionals Corey Aurand, Stuart Bruening, Dennis Hogan and Brian Whitcomb are credited with designing and building the course, which debuted in 2002.
The design spreads individual holes through existing ridges, draws, ponderosa pines and native-grass valleys rather than clustering fairways together. That separation helps each hole occupy its own section of the mountain property while preserving large areas of native terrain.
The club later became part of Heritage Golf Group's portfolio while remaining the home base of the Colorado PGA Section.
Bear Dance quickly became one of Colorado's best-known public courses and has accumulated repeated regional public-course awards.
Bear Dance remains a daily-fee public course, with five principal teeing options, PGA instruction, extensive practice facilities, simulator golf and full food-and-beverage operations.
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| Front 9 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Par | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 36 |
| Yards | 502 | 218 | 434 | 443 | 636 | 353 | 249 | 565 | 502 | 3902 |
| Index | 3 | 17 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 1 | - |
| Back 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Par | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 36 | 72 |
| Yards | 460 | 508 | 199 | 537 | 442 | 447 | 431 | 145 | 655 | 3824 | 7726 |
| Index | 14 | 6 | 16 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 10 | 18 | 2 | - | - |
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