Golf School at Grand Bear Golf club & Hard Rock Hotel & Casino - Biloxi, Ms

This 18-hole Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course is among the South's most spectacular.

Beautiful and challenging, the course navigates through natural cypress wetlands and towering pines, with packed pine needle rough, championship greens and deep bunkers set over 650 acres of rolling land in the piney woods of the DeSoto National Forest.

When Nicklaus came to plot the course, course officials gave him an open slate to route it however he wanted. The result is two separate looping nines resembling that of a figure-eight, with no holes playing parallel. "When designing a golf course there are two things we try to do," said Nicklaus on his design site. "Make it aesthetically pleasing and incorporate 18 holes of great golf. In Grand Bear, we've achieved the best of both worlds."

Golf school students will love the wide fairways and Nicklaus design set in scenic and natural forest playing along the Biloxi River. Though Nicklaus has a reputation for designing difficult courses, Grand Bear isn't in that mold. It's player-friendly for mid, high-handicappers and beginning golf school students. But move back on the tee and it will give the low handicap golf school student a test like no other.

What makes the club an even better value is its superb clubhouse facilities. There are private clubs likely salivating at the lodge-like architecture, featuring high ceilings in the dining room overlooking the course, and impressive locker room facilities.

The big magazines seem to love Grand Bear too. Golfweek named it the Best Public Course in Mississippi and Golf Digest awarded the facilities with 4.5 stars.

Golf School Students will delight in the following:

Students stay at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Biloxi, located in the heart of the city, boasts 318 guest rooms and suites in the striking 12-story purple and white hotel tower that brings a new level of accommodations to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. All 26 suites feature incredible views overlooking the Gulf of Mexico or the always "happening" Hard Rock pool deck. Standard rooms are equipped with high- tech comforts and luxury amenities such as 42-inch plasma screen televisions, touch screen phones, Bose CD Music Systems, wireless Internet, Aveda bath products and all-white posh duvet covers tucked beneath a six-foot-tall, deep- purple headboard.

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Live the life in one of our premium crash pads featuring "Sleep like a Rock" beds, 42" plasma TV's, Bose Wave music system with IPOD docking station, Aveda amenities, party bar & snack tray, 3 headed shower (some rooms equipped with tub/shower in lieu of 3 headed shower), plush bath robes, cordless phone, complimentary

QUEEN/QUEEN

Live the life in one of our premium crash pads featuring "Sleep like a Rock" beds, 42" plasma TV's, Bose Wave music system with IPOD docking station, Aveda amenities, party bar & snack tray, 3 headed shower (some rooms equipped with tub/shower in lieu of 3 headed shower), plush bath robes, cordless phone, complimentary high speed internet (wireless & DSL), complimentary local and toll free calls, iron & board, safe and make-up mirror.

Enjoy great steaks and seafood in a vibrant atmosphere with a circular bar, intimate dining accommodations offering a wide variety of cigars, wines and cordials. Be sure and join us every Sunday for Sunday Jazz Brunch from 11AM-2:30PM, with music by "SISTA JAZZ."

Ruth Chris serving only the best steaks, selected from the top 2% of the country's beef and served sizzling hot. To experience fine dining at its Prime, just follow the sizzle to Ruth's Chris Steak House. Dinner is served nightly.

Start your night at the Center Bar. Where is it? In the center, of course. The center of the casino. You can't miss it. It's the place to see and be seen. Serving all your favorite domestics, imports and specialty cocktails while you view the action from this raised bar.