Bears drop in on Clear Lake golf tournament

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Two federal park officers armed with walkie-talkies and air pistols have a two-year-old bear cornered on the 17th green of the Clear Lake golf course at Riding Mountain National Park.

“We’re really happy with the way things are,” said one official. “The bear is responding very well” to efforts to keep it in the bush and steer it down Bogie Creek.

The officers are using sound — loud clapping — to move the young bruin back out of the way of hundreds of golfers from across Manitoba playing in the annual amateur Tamarack tournament.

“This one’s no big deal,” he said, adding that a mother and two cubs yesterday were a little more challenging. They were last seen lumbering from the 16th hole and out of the tournament.