- Forsythe Park, wedged hard between heavy industry and a residential area, is a moderately-sized park. It's not anything much to look at; a windmill greets you at the first tee pad. A message of encouragement says "Excel." The course winds its way through the park, using as many of the scraps of elevation as possible; unfortunately, there just isn't much in the way of ups and downs. #'s 12-14 play down a strip of land right by a large foundry before making its way back.
- Relatively new with nice concrete tees, good signage, baskets, etc. Dual pin positions with several longer holes help this course from being the same ol' same ol' park style-y sort of course.
- Some tasty shots with the scattering of trees available. The designers did a good job working with the land on hand to squeeze out some fun shots from a reasonable (but not good) piece of land. In fact, this would be a very fun sort of course if not for...

-...the damn goose poop that's everywhere. Give credit to the geese, they've got the coverage game down. I don't think I saw a single square foot in the entire park that didn't have goose crap. It wasn't the worst I've seen, but it was bad. I understand there's not a lot that can be done with this sort of issue, but it's seriously one of my least favorite things to deal with on a course. When there's enough that you're constantly dodging it with every single step, it can't help but detract from the round.
- A few really badly placed benches. Unlucky thirteen, which plays right by the loud slightly-stinky ugly-as-hell foundry directly across the river, is the most egregious offender with a bench located directly short of the basket. It is completely hidden from the tee, faces away from the incoming hyzer line, and is directly in killzone range. I mean, who wants to sit there and revel in the joys of Whiting, Indiana's industrial zoning anyway? But there are other examples as well. Probably not gonna end in deaths, but still kinda shaky/sloppy design.
-Not a whole lot of elevation going on here to really help spice things up.

- Nothing really wrong with this course in and of itself. A solid three-discer just on merits of the course. I'd play here...if it weren't for the thin layer of chit spread throughout the course. But that's just me. You do you.
- Because of the industrial processes going on within a cancer-causing and ear-ringing radius of the park, some of the more dangerous design elements (benches, etc.), and the goose excrement, I lowered this course by a half disc. Sometimes personal aesthetic preferences can impact overall score. Forsythe is a good example of decent enough design butting heads with a few major environmental detractions.
- Leaning Tower of Birdhouses on #8.

Wide Open, you'll never lose a disc unless you really screw up and throw it in the water.

No elevation change, pretty easy and straightforward.

It's a cool bike ride down the lake from chicago, not too far.