Located in Batavia, a nice town.

Grassy, weedy mess. Constructed in an old orchard, the tunnel shots are every other hole. One hole has a ninety degree elbow to the basket, proof that a person who has never tossed a Frisbee designed this rat trap.

No tee pads. None. Zero.

It's next to a pooch park and as such, dog owners take liberties to run their mutts through the course unleashed on an hourly basis.

There is an extension of the roadway Fabyan Parkway that is going to destroy at least a large part of this course. We can all pray that the course is either relocated, or made playable, so that Batavia can have a nice, tournament-ready course to draw players to their area, just as the new Rolling Knolls course is doing for Elgin.

The course plays through a prairie with scattered stands of trees. There is a mix of more open holes where shot placement is the main skill tested and some more technical shots that require some line shaping. There is a pretty good mix of hole lengths with some shorter ace run chances and a few longer holes where many players will need to pull out a driver.

The holes with more trees offer some low ceilings and some tighter shots with a mix of left and right turning fairways. You do need a pretty good set of skills to score well. The signage is adequate, with hole layout and distance and there's a course map at the parking lot.

This course seemed either intentionally designed to frustrate or just not well thought out at all. The major obstacle is tall prairie grass, some reaching waist to chest high. That doesn't add any real disc golf challenge, it just leads to lost discs and wasted time without making the next shot any more difficult. On top of this, the fairways aren't mowed to a reasonable width. 10' wide fairways without any real green around the basket makes for a lot of decent shots that still end up in the grass.

The course is fairly short and open on many of the holes which is the type of course that attracts beginners, but beginners won't be able to hit those narrow fairways and are unlikely to come back after one round here. A few of the holes are more challenging for better players, but don't always offer valid lines and still have ridiculously narrow fairways surrounded by nasty rough. That means this course appeals to nobody.

The tees are natural, and are already turning into large rutted out areas that are ill-definied and get muddy and slick when wet. As people continue to tee off next to the muddy spot, it's only going to continue to kill the grass in a larger area. There are a couple spots where navigation is not obvious, make sure to take a picture of the course map. The nature trail is in play on several holes, there could be some safety issues with blind shots into areas where there might be non-disc golfers walking.

As usual, the designers of this course have turned property that could have been a decent course into one that nobody will want to play. There are cool stands of trees and the potential for some nice shots and those were ignored in favor of wide open shots surrounded by prairie rough. If the park wasn't willing to mow enough to make real fairways, then a legitimate course designer should be willing to pass on the project rather than putting in a course that isn't an enjoyable disc golf challenge for any level of player.

The course at West Main Park fills a gap in western Chicagoland that did not previously have any courses. It is on a unique plot of land that is not your typical wide open Chucker course. Most of the pin locations are well thought out and all need to be thrown precisely to score well. The course flow is pretty good. The new Discatchers catch well. There is some variety in left or right shots, though none are terribly long.

There is still a lot of cleaning up that needs to be done. As of the time of this review, this lack of clearing makes the course unnecessarily difficult. Low lying branches and stumps still need to be removed. Holes such as 4, 12 and 16 have no clear shot to the basket. Hole 7 is a sweet short tunnel that has both the tee and basket off center...unnecessary in my opinion. Hole 13 forces you to throw an awkward shot into a skinny fairway that parallels the dog path. Hole 18 is unique that you must pick one side of a line of bushes to have a clear shot, except that the right side needs to be cleared a good 10 to 20 feet more.

There is a lot of potential here and it is clearly not finished, so I will give it the benefit of the doubt. Adding concrete teepads and clearing rough will go a long way in increasing the rating here. With long teepads I could see west main maxing out at 3.5 to 4.0. Time will tell, and I hope the best is yet to come.