-Design makes good use of the limited foliage in this prairie style course. There's often an obstacle either off the tee or near the basket blocking the stock rhbh hyzer line.
-This is a DiscGolfPark course, which means you are going to get near Discatcher quality baskets (with next tee arrow welded to the tray), nice tees (well installed turf here), DGP's standard tee signs with descriptive maps, a course map, and a practice basket.
-Plays really well for white/blue skill levels. The 16 par 3's average 295' and range from 200-396'. For those maxing out in the 300-350' range, you'll find a holes ranging in difficulty from should birdie through holes that require everything to go right with a distance driver to have a look. The par 4s are a bit tougher for the intended skill level. At 615' and slightly uphill, hole 10 requires 2 shots at near max distance and has a group of trees left of the fairway at maybe the 375' mark to punish rhbh drives that leak left. Hole 13 is 708' long, late dogleg left and is basically wide open until the last 75'. Prairie grass and a marshy area left of the fairway keep you honest, but for most there will be nothing restricting the airways for the fist 2 throws. A cluster of trees short and right of the basket protect against a rhbh hyzer approach to the green.
-There's some minor, rolling elevation change to add some interest.

-Prairie grass. Even in the offseason, when it's fairly low, it's so easy to lose discs in there. While the fairways should be wide enough, the seemingly ever present, stiff wind guarantees you'll spend some time stomping through prairie grass looking for errant shots. Sure, it fits with the native environment in Illinois, but it makes for frustrating disc golf.
-Very few trees in this quintessential Illinois prairie. The designer did an admirable job of making use of the trees that are there, but this course is way too open for my tastes.
-The single tee and single basket layout limit the target audience. IMO, the layout straddles the white to blue range of difficulty. Anyone outside of that range will likely be in for a boring round.
-Balance. Front 9 is 2600' containing the shortest hole on the course and the back 9 is 3400' including both par 4's and the longest par 3.

I'm definitely a part of the target skill level range, but even though there are a bunch of rewarding birdie chances for me out here, I don't really like playing here. It's so frustrating to have to spend so much time searching for discs that land within 10' of the fairway. I'll usually come out here once or twice per year mostly to see if I'm getting better or regressing.

I think there's the potential here to widen the appeal of this course. If the park district could be convinced to allocate funds, a set of red tees and some trees to toughen up the existing flightlines to make it a true blue level layout would be a big improvement.

You park along the street and I don't believe there is any sort of a bathroom even across the street in the other park. The low spots in this course tend to hold water.

Well marked, good signage, nice turf tees.

Needs to have fairways cut if the course is to be a true links style course as it has been described. Parking on 167th street is not desireable.

The course is open so my wife is more apt to play along with me which is a big plus for me.