Winter and Early Spring, This is an excellent and challenging course, but I can't imagine playing it during summer and fall when everything is growing and green. There are several courses that are fun only in this time frame.

Good is it requires disciplined throws that you need to keep in fairway. Even a well played round will challenge your scrambling skills.

I can't imagine playing this course during May-September with thick underbrush. I am sure that is the reason the course is rated low. Underbrush includes many thorn bushes and such, and it is thick..

No tee pads, and two or three distance signs were missing.

The straight line throws do get repetitive after awhile, but thus the challenge and uniqueness.

18 holes, about 9 of the holes are basically the same, "deja vu all over again". But to the plus these aren't wide open grip and rip shots, they are the technical shots that you need to hit your straight line. This course is all about improving your technical game like this course.

Not a beginner friendly course, but a more experience golfer will appreciate the challenge. I have played the course in the spring. I would welcome to play again at least once a year in the winter or spring.

Difficult course. Some really cool holes. Amazing Fall, winter and early spring course.

No tee pads. It gets pretty muddy if it has been raining. tall rough and lots of thorns. Probably pick a different course in the summer.

I have never left a review on this site for a course. I live right by this course and I had never played it because the reviews were just so terrible. I played it last year in the fall and i have been playing ever since. Shame on me for not making up my own decision.

Sure there are no tee pads and that sucks for sure. I have not yet played it in the middle of the summer when everything is green and long so please take that into consideration. I have a feeling it might very well suck in the summer.

This is such a fun course. I have played a lot of the courses in the Northwest Suburbs and this is definitely one of the cooler courses. Do yourself a favor and skip Wheeler and come play this course.

In a response to another comment about not being able to play a tourney here. We just played the Main Street Manditory here this weekend and 100 players came through the course with no trouble.

Batavia has one of the most interesting course designs in the area. Defined fairways make use of former tree farm and grasses. This course is hard. And longer considering a number of tunnel shots. I like this course when open air shots get boring.

The most significant improvement occurred in summer of 2014, when the park district widened the fairways and cleared more defined landing zones. I have not lost a disc since. The course now only poses a slightly greater risk of a lost disc than other local courses. Treat the grasses like an out of bounds.

Can get muddy when wet. The ground cover below thick trees has little grass. Tee pads are needed, although a skilled tournament director has ample room on each hole to designate safe and flat tees. Certain trees could be removed.

Not every course needs to be easy.

-good location, from what i understand it is on an old tree farm
- lots of long and technical shots
-this course is a most welcome change from the mostly open courses in the area
-heavily wooded but unlike the other heavily wooded courses around it is still a long 18
-even in its rough early stages it was a blast to play
-a great challenge for better players
-still has a few good bomber holes as long as you can bomb accurately
-the first few holes are easy compared to the rest of the course(still harder then a lot of the courses around) that make for good warm up holes.
-even without signs navigation was not that bad with only a few exceptions

-this course still needs a lot of work(the park district has done a ton of work clearing out the fairways)
-very rough pads
-the rough is still very rough with lots of thrones and i can see it getting much worse during the summer.
-it is also a dog park and did have a dog try to run off wit ha friends disc but he got it back undamaged
-there are one or 2 holes that are hard to spot from the tee but once signs get put in the few problems we had finding tees will be easily fixed

- once this course gets a little foot traffic through it it will start to clear up a bit
- still needs to be cleared out a bit but i hope they don't clear it out to much
-this course has the potential to be the best course in the area not counting the courses down by joliet but this could easily be on par with those courses. even if they only put in pads i would bump my rating of this course up and if it had quite a bit more work done to it i would bump up the raiting quite a bit(once this course gets some pads it will be the best in the area)