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Brookfield, IL

Kiwanis Park

0.865(based on 7 reviews)
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notapro
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Experience: 20.8 years 569 played 284 reviews
0.50 star(s)

Beginner 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Sep 19, 2014 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

- There are enough trees here to keep things interesting; throwing a RHBH hyzer isn't always the best option. #4 and #7 work well with a RHBH anny, for instance.
- Nice tees! New baskets! No signs or hole numbers anywhere though. Did not see a map anywhere either. Doesn't affect my rating either way.

Cons:

- This park is ridiculously small, these holes seriously play over and around park equipment almost the whole time. Shorter hole lengths overall; half are silly short and the rest are short to decent putter shots for an experienced player.
- Hole #1 is weird; the teepad suggests a funky RHFH hyzer... I threw a roller at a 60 degree angle off the tee. Yikes.

Other Thoughts:

- Another one for the books. I will play this course often because it is 1.5 miles from my house and it's a great place for me to work on short FH/OH/trick shots. Or to shamelessly do ace runs. If it was any farther I would never ever be back.
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brettowen
Experience: 38 years 27 played 6 reviews
0.50 star(s)

Lawsuit waiting to happen 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Sep 2, 2014 Played the course:once

Pros:

NONE

Cons:

This is a really poorly designed course that is a lawsuit waiting to happen. The designers (if you can call them that) crammed seven holes into an area where not even three or four holes would comfortably fit.

There are safety issues on ever single hole and if there is anyone else using the park the disc golf course is basically unplayable... at least not safely... although I'm sure some foolish people will try. Every one of the seven baskets is in close proximity to either a horseshoe pit, a baseball field, another tee pad, a walking trail, a rest room, a children's playground or the street and several are close to a combination of the above.

You might call this a beginners course due to the short hole lengths (estimated at 125' to 275') except that the amount of accuracy required to not hit one of the above mentioned park features and the people near them, makes this an undesirable destination for both beginners and advanced players.

It's a shame that concrete tee pads were even installed because I don't see this course getting enough traffic to warrant the time and effort required to install them. There are no signs that I saw and no numbers on the baskets so it's hard to tell which is hole one and which is hole seven. Also several of the tee pads don't really point at the baskets so navigation is sketchy at best.

Other Thoughts:

If only these baskets and tee pads could have been installed at a location that could actually accommodate them but alas. Perhaps after a lawsuit or two the village of Brookfield will be looking to unload the baskets to a park that could actually use them. Time will tell.
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