This course seems to have had a handful of redesigns, so read my hold breakdown in Other Thoughts for how to get around and not throw at the wrong basket.

I went out of my way to play this course over others nearby because I felt like the pictures showed a better park. Having played it, the best way to describe it is - It's okay. Other reviews will tell you that the course has had some updates/pin position moves. This is a quality course for a casual/relaxed round. It's not going to challenge or excite any veteran players or new course hunters, but it seems like the community cares about it, trying to make improvements and keeping the park clean.

PROS:
- Good baskets on every hole
- Good tee pads on almost every hole. (All but hole 2, 12, and 13)
- Pretty easy to navigate. No map is needed once you find hole 1, just make sure you're throwing at the correct basket. Some of the holes are close together and you may see the wrong basket first.
-Good for both backhand and forehand dominate players.
-Basically no rough to be had here. You should be able to throw an upshot after almost any drive.

CONS:
-Biggest complaint is that a handful of the holes don't really have a line to the basket (8 and 17 come first to mind). Hyzer around all the trees is available on pretty much every hole, but in a park with so many trees, I want to throw more than hyzers or flat shots that fade. Maybe the hyzer around everything was the intended play, but I hate being confused on where to throw when stepping up to the tee.
-With the current layout as of November 2021, I threw to the wrong basket three times. One of those holes doesn't have a sign to help (but I describe it below). The others were mistakes on my end, but there's a flaw in design in my opinion when you identify a basket off the tee that looks correct, and it's not.
-Hard to find hole 1 if you haven't looked at pictures or a map.
-This park has a lot of other stuff for people to do, and there's a walking path going around/through it. Some holes play over the path or close to it. When I played, the park was empty, but it could be different at a busy time.
-Not a ton of parking. Could be a problem if the park is busy.

HOLE BREAKDOWN:
Hole 1 is probably the worst on the course. It's hard to find and it's the one hole you could easily lose a disc on. The hole is behind the pool area and next to one of the main roads. You'd completely miss it if you didn't know to look there. The fairway requires either a straight shot or a right-hand forehand hyzer or flex. The right side of the fairway has a large fence lining it. The fence has space near the ground where a disc could slide through. I didn't see any way to get into the pool area when I was there. The right side of the fairway is lined by trees with space in them. If you want to throw the forehand flex/hyzer, you'll have to either go between some trees or around the outside of the first one.
Hole 2, in contrast, is one of the best on the course. You have to throw slightly uphill, but the fairway dips downhill for the first half of it. Trees line the left side of the fairway, similar to hole 1, and the nearest tree to the tee has a lot of limbs that create a ceiling. The right side is open, but there's a tree to the right off the tee that prevents the pure hyzer. For the average thrower to park this one, you need to throw a straight shot with a stable disc & you're going to want to get the nose of the disc up to get the height right. This is hard to do because this is the worst tee pad on the course. it's broken up and sloped downhill. So .. walk down and throw up ... best of luck to all.
Hole 3 is kind of hard to remember. Off the tee there's a basket straight ahead which is the wrong one. There's a shorter basket slightly left. Your choice of right fading hyzer or left fading hyzer around the trees.
Hole 4 has some trees near the tee that force you to throw high. The basket is on the backside of a large tree that's slightly left of the tee. The trick here is to throw high enough to clear those first trees but not too high where you fade out too soon.
Hole 5 is a straight shot with a line of spaced-out trees between you and the basket. Pick your favorite hyzer, or the one that works best with the wind.
Hole 6 feels like the first distance throw of the round. The fairway is large enough to flex something if you'd like, but there are trees on both sides of the fairway that mostly eliminate a hyzer (if you want to birdie). Overall, it's mostly straight from the tee.
Hole 7's pin & tee placements make it a fun hole. There's a straight to fade right-hand forehand line through some trees, or you can throw a hyzer out right that fade's left. The basket is on a small hill. It's not that elevated, but enough to create roll-aways and force an uphill putt from 20 - 30 feet away.
Hole 8's tee can be missed if you're not careful. 7 and 8 play the same direction. So you'll need to backtrack 40 steps or so to find it. From the tee of 7, 8's tee is slightly right and forward. Hole 8 is the most Pro-level birdie on the course. Stepping up to the tee, there's no direct line to the basket. There's a tunnel of spaced-out trees in front of you, but there's no gap to hit. A high right-hand forehand hyzer could get there but fading into the pin is tricky. A large tree creates and overhang over the basket, knocking down discs that come in from the left side. The basket is also on a small hill, similar to hole 7, making the gap between the overhanging tree and the ground even smaller I think a sky-anhyzer shot would have better luck than a forehand, but that's based on my distance abilities. I did birdie this hole in my playthrough, but I went with a right-hand backhand roller with a Nuke SS. This took away the ceiling issue at the end of the flight & the journey up the small hill slowed the disc down. I enjoyed this hole, but I play a lot of disc golf. I think average/casual players (who this course is really for) would mark this hole down as the one they'll never get.
Hole 9 plays the opposite direction of 8. It's a straight shot or a hyzer fading left. There's one large tree near the basket that you need to get close to but not hit in order to park this. It's not too long of a hole, so experienced players could use a putter or midrange here.
Hole 10 has some trees in a line between the tee and the basket. There's a 10 - 15 foot gap to throw through if you want to go close to straight at it. You could also fit a hyzer through there. The other option is to go left of the center tree and fade something in on the backside of the green.
Hole 11 is where the course can get confusing. There's a tee near hole 10's basket, but it must be for an old pin position. Walk back to hole 10's tee, and there's a tee pad across the walking path that plays to hole 11. I believe the sign says Hole 12, but this is hole 11. This has a tight gap off the tee forced by two trees. It's a short hole, but a main road is maybe 10 yards left of the basket, so you'll want to limit fade. I stood at the front of the tee and no-stepped a DX dart with a little hyzer to park this one.
Hole 12 is also confusing. Walk down the walking path from hole 11 and you'll find the next tee pad which points toward the parking lot. IGNORE THE TEE PAD. It's facing what is currently hole 14's basket. Across the walking path, very close to the tee, is a pink flag or two symbolizing the tee for 12. There's no pad here, it's just grass. The grass tee points north, I believe, and you can see a basket in the distance beyond a long field. This is the second longest hole on the course (I believe). There's essentially nothing in the way, but it's around 450 to 500 feet.
Hole 13's tee is to the right of Hole 12's basket (as you walk up to it). This is a similar shot to hole 12, but it's a little longer.Nothing in the way. Straight shot back toward the rest of the course. I played on a windy day, and Hole 12 & 13 provided opposite difficulty. Hole 12 had a strong tailwind. Hole 13 had a strong headwind.
Hole 14's tee is near 13's basket. It plays towards the parking lot. Not much to worry about here. There's a electric pole halfway through the fairway to shape your shot around. There's also a tennis court area left of the basket, so if you throw too far out to the left, you could get caught behind it. This would require an errant shot or a bad gust though.
Hole 15 requires you to avoid the same electric pole. This one felt longer than the tee sign said. Depending on the wind, it's a shot of your choice to the basket, as long as you go mostly straight or out right. There's some room on the left side to work with.
Hole 16 is a tunnel-like shot formed by trees and an electric pole. The best shot is a something the flexes midway through the flight and fades back to center. A righthand backhand flex would be best, but you could do a righthand forehand flex as well and get to the basket.
Hole 17 was my least favorite on the course. I assume some trees were put in after the course was designed, because the only logical shot is a wide hyzer out left that fades right. The basket and tee are on opposite sides of a walking path. You could go straight-ish at this as long as your disc gets some skip left at the end, but the gap and ceiling are incredibly tight.
Hole 18 plays back toward the parking lot. There's essentially nothing in the way, but the basket is on a hill that slopes upward, so getting the height right off the tee is the trick to parking this one.

- Pulaski plays through a small multi-use park in beautiful Hammond, IN. While the course and other activities encroach a little bit upon each other, the course avoids major conflicts with other park activities.
- Sweet orange spider web style baskets...fun to still see this style of basket in use. Easy to see, catch superbly.
- All the typical things you need to make it a course...pads, signage, and the like.
- Simple, very lightly tree'd, flat and forgettable as your first girlfriend, Pulaski still manages to present an enjoyable 18 holes of deuce or die, ace run fun, and/or beginner- and family- friendly disc golf.

- Not much to really distinguish this course from any number of other flat, lightly tree'd, mostly open, forgettable courses.
- Missing and or damaged signs on a couple of holes. Not really anything that detracts from the round. A couple of leaning baskets...[insert slightly racist joke re: drunken Poles at Pulaski here]
- Just kinda meh.

-Thoroughly enjoyed a nice relaxing round here, mostly due to the much lessened presence of goose poop after an earlier round at the nearby Forsythe in Whiting, IN. So Pulaski's got that going for it: come for the less goose crap, stay for the birdies!
-Beware the Ghosts of Skater Punks Past lurking in the abandoned pool past the fence just to the right of #1's fairway.

Pulaski park is a recreational disc golf course in the midst of a multi-purpose park. The course features 18 baskets with concrete tee pads. Most posts and signs are in but a few are missing. Any experienced player can find the next drive with a bit of looking. First time players might find it a bit frustrating but, the numbers on the baskets were fixed and the tee can be found via logic and reason.

The redesign has eliminated many of the extremely short shots. 190' (11) is the shortest shot while most are between 220' and 280'. The course was moved a bit north to lengthen the drives such a 13 and 14. The course has about five drives that are 300' plus or minus a yard. Many of the old trees have been removed and new ones planted. Thus in few years, the drives that are docile today will become more intricate with time.

The park is well manicured and washroom facilities are available. A large parking lot next to the pool is a short walk from the course. Benches are located throughout the course for the weary player.

The multi-purpose park is the biggest con. Drive 1 flanks a pool and a sidewalk. An errant shot could wind up in the pool, on the roof or out on the street. Players must be aware of pedestrians at all times. A pavilion in the middle of the course invites onlookers and picnickers to the course. Also a soccer field, though seldom used, takes up part of 18.

Experienced players might find this course too easy. The flat landscape and some field shots will not test skills at a high level. The designers tried to create complicated drives, but the shortness and lack of landscape obstacles undermines their creativity.

The relaxing nature of the course is its ideal attraction. There are some days a quick round or two is just right to keep skills sharp. Accessing the park is relatively easy and being in Hammond there are plenty of lunch places around.

The football field to the north of the course can be used for practice shots.

Pulaski Park is a medium sized city park which houses a soccer field, community center, a swimming pool, playground and picnic shelters. The park is flat with some scattered trees.

The course starts at one corner of the pool and plays around and through the park in kind of a clockwise direction, with some detours here and there. The tee signs (when present) give the basic info. The tee pads are concrete and some are a little on the small side. The baskets are powder coated a pretty color and have triple chains and extra deep catching baskets.

The course plays as a recreational level. It's relatively short, pretty wide open and very forgiving. There is a nice combination of short ACE runs and 250-300 lengths.

Two holes give you the "Psych" treatment. # 1 plays next to the pool fence. It's 230' and straight but throwing that close to the pool gets in your head. You don't want to look like clown and throw your drive in the pool in front of all those swimmers. And # 12 is another hole that gets in your head. It's just 220' and straight but you have to throw your drive between a gap approx 3-4' wide. This gap is just about 6 feet in front the tee pad.

I would always throw holes 13 and 14 together. It makes no sense to tee off for 13 and play the hole, then backtrack back to the 14 pad. Makes sense to tee off for both and then hole out on both.

I liked hole 18. It's about 290' or 300' with a fun window to aim at.

# 1 is just not a good place for the hole, so close to the pool fence.

Signs are missing at # 2, 8, 17 and 18.

Baskets 11 and 13 are set a little low.

# 14 basket is leaning.

Pulaski is a solid recreational level course. Beginners will enjoy playing here, too. It's a little short for intermediate and above players. Other park users might give you fits, too. It's just another Chicago 9'er only 18 holes of bliss.

Pulaski Park has been redesigned; gone are the weird homemade baskets, in their place are real baskets, concrete tees and (in some places) tee signs. It looks more like a real disc golf course now. The course is a basic park-style beginner course. The park is flat and lightly wooded, and the shots are mostly under 300'. The design does utilize the trees on site to create some challenge, but the design doesn't force you to take certain shots. It's a nice course for a quick, easy round.

It's a real (terrible) disc golf course now. The park is too small for 18 holes, but they are all crammed in there. Hole one shoots way too close to the swimming pool, hole two plays down the side of a soccer field. Holes #3-#4 are also close to the soccer field. You can get all the way to hole #5 before you don't have a conflict with other park users. The rest of the holes shoot back and forth at each other. Hole #8's tee is very hard to find because it is behind #7's basket; you basically shoot back over #7's fairway to a basket that is farther up. Hole #13 plays toward a football field. The basket for #18 is set up close to the door for the swimming pool, so you are throwing a 280' shot at people walking in and out of the pool 20' behind the pin. Add those conflicts in with the fact that the fairways are too close and some tees are too close to baskets and you have an all-around unsafe design.

The basket marked #12 is in the placement for #11 and vice versa.

The tee signs are foam markers mounted to posts; some of the tee sign were missing and on a few holes the entire post was missing. The course is all crammed together, so it was hard to figure out which basket you were supposed to throw at from the unmarked tees.

Something worth mentioning is that an enormous amount of the trees in this park are dead. Once the dead trees either fall down or are cut down, there will not be a whole lot left of this course. Every tree in the design of holes #13/14/15 is dead; if they are removed the only obstacle left in that area is a telephone pole.

The park itself is not well kept up; the grass was high and the course was littered with downed limbs falling from the dead trees.

It was nice that someone took the time to fix up Pulaski Park. Unfortunately, it looks like the work may go to waste. The course right now is bad. Once the dead trees in the park are gone, it will be pointless.

- Nice & new
- Distance variety
- Not crowded

- Tee pads are not installed yet
- Tee marker posts are not helpful

Great new baskets and nice park. Not sure why the neighborhood keeps getting flagged. The whole time I was there, families were running and walking by, enjoying the nice day in their community. My only problems with this course were the pool fence along hole 1 that I almost went over, the tee markers being ripped off or near impossible to locate, and the trees (not the park's fault, I just went high every shot and if there was a tree around, I found it!)

-Good variety of shots.
-It is always free.
-If football field is not in use it is a great place to test your distance shots out.
-All the baskets have been replaced.
-I went during the day on weekdays and it was not busy.

-The tee pads are missing.
-The organization of the course is not as fluent as others.
-Bathrooms are randomly locked.
-First timers will have some difficulty following markers.

I like this course because it is the closest course to me with the most variety. I would recommend bringing binoculars so you shoot for the right basket. If they would just install new tee pads and fix some of the markers for flow I would give this course a much higher rating.

New baskets. No burrs or thorns. The great thing about this course is the fact that if you work in the Northwest Indiana industrial sector, for instance, the BP refinery or Mittal (Inland) Steel, this is a great course to stop and practice on the way home from work.

Natural tees. Missing tee markers. Unattractive neighborhood. Holes too close to roads, paths, practice fields, and playground.

This park was given a complete makeover last year. Since the update the course has been changed. The media connected with this course needs updated. The course used to play around the majority of the park with some long, open holes on the north end. The course now plays entirely on the south side. Hole 1 starts on the east side of the pool south of the skate ramps. Be very careful not to go over the fence! Hole 2 is similar to the old hole 1 but tees about 30' west. Hole 3 is the old hole 2. If the soccer field is in use holes 2 and 3 can be dangerous to play. If you turn a disc over you will likely land on the soccer field. Hole 4 is the old hole 3 and this trend continues until hole 8. After hole 7 backtrack and the tee for 8 is west and a little south of the tee for 7. In the late summer and fall the football field is in use making 13 and 15 dangerous to play. Also during this season there is cheerleading practice in the way of holes 17 and 18. After a heavy rain holes 2 and 18 will have water hazards. If you can't play a hole due to people hazards, it's very easy to make up holes to complete the round. If the football field is not in use it's a great place to practice driving. This a great course to practice your technical game.

There are 18 holes (Good Luck finding / Navigating them.)

Where do i start...

Very hard to navigate. 14 Basket is approx. 1 - 1.5 ft off the ground.

Hard to Read numbers on all Baskets.

Dont waste your time on this course. If ur from the area, all you have to do is think its in hammond it cant be good. and sure enough its NOT.

18 holes of disc golf. I actually thought the home made buckets caught pretty well. From that stand point, I was happy to get away from the chastity belted targets we had played all day the day before.
Tees using the walk way give you hard surface to throw from.
Playing paved walking path as o.b. can add to challenge of course. Couple of holes have path near to basket and will force precise landings.
Decent tee signs on most holes. Some attached to trees.
That's probably about it for pure pros. This is not a bad course, but....

Tees are tough to find in a number of places. We made up our own for at least four holes (some may have simply been under water). We did find the tee for #1; unlike two previous reviews; but it was simply a 2' X 3' slab of rubber on the ground. Other tees were, in some cases, very worn and dilapidated rubber, the walking path, or natural.
Repetitive length of holes. Largely short holes; though we played some longer shots on holes we made up due to not finding tees. Decent shot selection; but, the course plays around a walking path, a softball diamond, near roads, etc. We had to skip one hole due to folks in picnic table areas and had to walk up fairway and ask if we could play right next to a couple of other persons. Two of us were in the road at different times on the course; not the walking path, but the road. Potential for trouble on both of these accounts.
Back tracking to some tee areas.
I realize this is a very wet year; and not the course's fault; but most of the course is under water as of end of July, 2010. Ankle deep water disc retrieval on a number of holes.

This course was interesting from the stand point of being a very multi cultural setting. Lots of other park's users the day we were there; and of all ages and ethnic groups.
I believe this is a Brian Cummings course and these baskets may have been elsewhere prior to this (I will update if I find any further info).
In my book, it's always nice to play a course with interesting targets and some history; but, I won't be coming back to this one anytime soon.

The course is in a small park that is half open football fields, and half shady mature trees. The course mostly sticks to the trees other than the last few holes, so it's a nice park style course with obstacles to avoid but no brush or undergrowth. There is a good mix of hole shapes, requiring lots of different lines to shoot for birdies.

Tees are a mix of rubber, concrete, and grass, but most were level and free of ruts, and all were sufficient for the length of the holes. Most holes had tee signs with distance and hole layout that make the course easier to follow. There are a couple of the more open holes that are longer and let you open up and throw a little more, and the street and sidewalks add challenge if played as ob.

The course is very short other than a couple wide open holes. You could play the entire course with a putter and a mid with no problems. Though the hole shapes are varied, the repetitive lengths make the course feel a bit stale after a while.

The baskets are old and rusty, and don't always catch very well. Some tee signs were broken, missing or vandalized, which made it hard to follow the course. Many tees weren't well defined, and the signs were often tacked to a tree, so there were places where we had to look for a while to find the next tee. The flow of the course was odd in places with backtracking and long walks where they didn't seem necessary. We never actually found the first tee.

In many places the course played right on top of roads, sidewalks, playgrounds, parking lots and picnic tables. The open holes throw over a football field. If there were any other people using the park, you'd probably end up throwing at them at some point.

The land this course is on would make a really nice 9 or 12 hole course, but instead there are 18 mediocre holes with no real length or challenge. It's not a bad place to work on your midrange game or teach new players the game, otherwise it's not worth a trip.

New players will find this course approachable without being totally straightforward. There's no chance of losing discs, and the distances are reasonable. More experienced players won't find much challenge here or any really interesting holes.

- Trees are nice - shady course (except 13-17)
- Grassy course. Mowed. Probably does not get too muddy during wet spells
- Short length and low challenge caters to beginners
- Variety of hole shapes keeps things interesting
- No potential for lost discs
- Most tees have signs. The ones that don't are tricky to find.

- Sketchy (unsafe?) neighborhood
- Parts of course hard to navigate. I could not find tee one, so I decided to play from the sidewalk by the course kiosk. Tee 13 is painted on the sidewalk after you backtrack from playing 12
- You play over sidewalks and picnic tables and close to a ballfield. I am doubtful there is a ton of traffic in the park, so this might not be a huge issue. But be aware.
- Baskets as old and run-down
- Not sure if they open the bathrooms - they seem like they have been locked for a long time.
- Natural tees are a con, but not a huge con as the holes are short enough where a huge run-up is not required. And they are not rutted out.

What I personally like and how this course stacks up in my list of 18 hole courses:

1) Holes with good risk/reward. Fair, but harsh punishment for bad decisions or execution. == C-
(This course is very open. Impossible for a bad drive to cause you to take a 4....unless it is really bad and goes OB on a road.)

2) Holes that have rewarding birdie opportunities for me. I throw 300' accurately, 360' max. == C+
(Most of the holes are too short and/or too open to feel rewarding.)

3) More wooded than open - lots of variety of shots required caused by hole shape and topography == C+
(The design of some holes incorporate trees to force you to throw a certain line. Several tunnel shots.)

4) Natural beauty (Appalachian beauty preferred) and seclusion. == C-
(In a run down, old park and neighborhood. Not pretty and not secluded. There are lots of nice trees and it is grassy.)

5) Bonus points for multi-throw holes with defined landing zones, good risk/reward and multiple options to play them. == N/A