18 hole Abendschein Park is an easily accessible course right off of I-94 . The parking lot is plenty large , and a port o let next to the lot .
The Equipment : The course has a nice practice basket near the front of the park . The tee pads are cement and 4' X 10' , plenty large for a shorter course . The baskets are numbered Mach 5 and seem to catch well . The signage is basic , with hole # , par and distance .
The Landscape : The park was in great condition when I played . Mowed , trimmed , and there was a maintenance man watering some newly planted trees near hole #1 . The course is mostly flat , but has a slight incline/decline that the course designer took advantage of on a few of the holes . gravel was placed marking a path from basket to the next tee pad . The park has cultivated some heavy rough for hole #s 12 & 13 fairways for course flavor .
The Highlights : The first 7 holes are short , mostly easy putter of midrange throws , All of the sudden , the course takes a turn for a while and the holes become longer ( redesign was in 2012 ) and better . #8 was a 475 ' drive slightly downhill through a narrow fairway . #9 was back up the same grade , left to right into some woods where the basket was protects by late fairway trees . #10 was a fun throw , a descending island toss to a basket in a large circle surrounded by wood chips and large upright logs ( France Park ) that I have seen before that make you think of maybe an ancient Native American site . #13 is 518' , over tall rough to a basket with a canopy and trees flanking it . #16 has the basket and brush right in front of the hole . Go around either side or take a chance and go over top ( it's 373' ) . #18 is an easy hole , but worth mentioning because of the small boulders surrounding the open green . Not hard , but scenic .
Signature Hole : My favorite was #12. The longest hole at 540' , it has a brush/small treeline in the middle but off slightly to the left on the fairway . High grass starts about 400' from the tee in the fairway . The basket is on the other side about 80' out .
Amenities : Nice benches here , trash cans throughout , a practice basket , and short gravel path walks to the next holes .
Disc Risk : You shouldn't lose a disc unless you get it caught in a tree here . The blind shots are mostly short and the park stays clean . You may have to dig around in the high grass to look for your disc a couple of times , which will aggravate , but if you follow and mark your flight path , you won't lose it in there .
Time : It took me a little less than an hour to play this course , thanks to the easy navigation and some shorter holes . A foursome will play this is well under 2 hours .
The course is convenient , easy on the legs ( no climbing ), and gives you a few chances to air out a good bomb . The park is clean and a nice refreshing walk . If playing in the evenings or weekends , there might be a wait at a couple of holes . This can be a popular course .

Challenge ; This course caters to the locals , families and newbies . After warming up , an okay player might be several strokes under par after the first 7 holes , and pick up a couple of more birdies after hole 13 . There a a lot of unused woods/space here that could have reshaped a few holes , but it is what it is .
All of the rest of the cons are minor . Maybe signage could have been nicer .

This course serves it's purpose . This is a park course best served for the community . The course is faster than average , and kids or someone being introduced to the game can play 1-7 , skip the next few holes and pick up the course at #14 and ride it in . Some variety here , I can see that the Oak Park Board thought out and coughed up some money to put together a course that was both fun and great holes for locals to throw at . A lot of time and effort was made just for constructing the wood poled island hole on #10 . And you rarely see gravel paths to the next tee pads on other courses . I doubt if the park ever abandons it's course .
My Recommendation : Pros and Ams may want to move over the MKE courses . This course is geared the less gifted .There is just too much fun here to leave it alone, otherwise .
Great for families and locals to get out and enjoy themselves on a weekend or after dinner round . This is a fantastic course for the newbies to learn control and gain some confidence on the early and late parts of the course without overwhelming them . The 1 disc player with thrive here , and might brag on birdies or an ace run . This course is perfect for the traveler for a good leg stretch and the Course Collector , since it is right off and then back on I-94 .
Give This Course a Play !

(2.731 Rating) A flat park style course with likely a huge following.
- FUN FACTOR - I would suspect this course gets mad busy on weekends and weekday afternoons. This course is a forgiving birdie-fest will a boatload of ace potential. Six sub 200 footers, yet also a few opportunities to air-em out. The ace potential is likely 2 or 3 times higher than the average course. The overgrown areas are limited and there were maintained fairways on my play. Likely too simplistic for higher skilled players, but those between a 750 to 900 rating will likely love-it. The fun factor aspect reminded me a lot of my first home course as well as another nearby Milwaukee area course called Valley View. I could see this course producing addicts out the ying-yang.
- NAVIGATION - I never once looked at my map. There is a crushed gravel path at just about every basket leading to the next tee. What a wonderful cue for a bagger like me to seamlessly find my way around. I do however wish the tee signs were more extravagant than a simple hole number and distance. Considering the amount of play here, I would not be surprised if the local club is planning to update this aspect.
- CHARACTER - The basics are good and there are a few nice extras. Nice community board with league info posted. Unfortunately, no map posted, but players won't need one, see my Navigation Pro above. Practice basket located behind tee (1). The baskets are adequate and the tees are great being 5 feet by 12 feet and concrete. Benches at every tee and a decent amount of tee shading. Lots of trash cans and thus the grounds were free of excess trash. The course could really use some alternate tees or alternate basket placements where space is available to spice it up a bit and to widen the skill level appeal.
- BEGINNER FRIENDLY - Not perfect for beginners, but close to it. Mostly forgiving, hard to lose a disc, birdie potential for athletic first timers. A much better new player course choice over nearby Milwaukee County Sports Complex.
- QUICK PLAY - I blew through the course in under an hour at the break of dawn. That stated, playing at prime times should be avoided by baggers trying to rack up courses as I suspect this is a busy one.

Simplistic course issues.
- DISC CHARGER - I wish that the few people that draw these on benches would stop. If they need a disc charger, they should just draw this garbage on their hand and then smack themselves in the face. It's very tacky and I noticed two of them drawn on the benches at Abendschein.
- LACK OF CHALLENGE - Lower Recreational level challenges at best. A couple featureless wide-open plays and a few dinkers. The dinker on (14) use to have a little charm to it, but with the death of the three trees encircling the basket, it's now a boring short flat open play. I shot 7 down on first attempt and didn't play well. I would bet the 950's would average 12 to 14 down. I did like the fact that there were a few opportunities to let one rip. Hole (12) is a mid 500 foot shot.
- MISSED OPPORTUNITIES - Seriously why were the heavy woods almost completely skipped over. Holes (9) and (11) are a couple nice teasers with baskets poking into the wonderful canopy. I'd like to see holes (14) and (15) get axed and a pair get added in the woods between (11) and (12). I took a look at the nearby creek too, but was glad after seeing it that it wasn't used. The creek would surely claim just about every disc that went in it.
- UNIQUENESS - The variety is a touch below average. An overabundance of short moderately to lightly wooded holes. There are three par 4s, which was nice. The course is very flat, probably no more than 10 feet of elevation change on the entire course. Had the heavy woods been more thoroughly used the variety could have ticked up to average.
- NATURAL BEAUTY - Average city park looks. Again, could have been better if the heavy woods were used. Too many featureless and park style shots. The course spacing is not the greatest either. Overall I scored the course a 2.125 out of 5.

I'd like to give the course a 2.75 if we could grade by quarters. Abendschein in my estimation, gets a great deal of use. It's very similar in feel to nearby Valley View with its easy going play though-out. I think Valley View is a touch more beautiful with its tree and elevation, while Abendschein has some opportunities to break out the driver. Both are likely well-loved and fun to play for the Novice and Recreational players. That stated, this course won't be heralded by Advanced players needing a challenge to be entertained or traveling players looking to play the best courses in the area.

Decent little 18 holer in a multipurpose park.

Decent catching baskets in good repair.

Well groomed, with defined fairways and greens.

Nice place to take newer players, as there are a bunch of short holes, and the long holes aren't difficult...just mostly open. Lots of ace runs here.

Navigation was relatively easy from basket to next tee.

The tee pads here are a joke. Honeycombed plastic that is just begging you to blow out your ACL. We threw from the dirt alongside almost all of them. Seriously, this is probably the worst tee pad material I've seen...just make them natural if you don't want to put in concrete.

Not a lot of challenge to be had here. It's 75% short holes...and by short, I mean really short, like 200' and under. There were a couple of the longer holes that were somewhat interesting, but not enough to make me want to come back.

Bad tee signs are a definite negative here. The distances are really far off on several holes, and if you only play it once, go with your gut and not the assigned distance.

It's not a bad course, outside of the tee pads. What this course offers is a great place to take your kids or beginners.

It's a nice looking place, with some woods and a creek that runs alongside it. Ample parking, restroom facilities and a baseball diamond make this a nice little park.

Definitely don't go out of your way to play here, but you could do worse if you're in a pinch.