Forest Park makes up for its lack of elevation with some interesting challenges, low ceilings, tricky OB, and fun to be had for everyone. Amenities are great, you can practice putting on 18's basket, and maintenance is exceptional, being in a park with other features. If you're a fan of park-style courses, you've come to the right place.

There's a lot of variety in hole distance, and that is really important on a course like this. Holes average around 320 feet, but the shape of every hole is different, and what you need to accomplish to get to the basket changes every time. With so many low ceilings, there are some roller opportunities, chances for sky hyzers or anhyzers, and even some skip shots. Some holes are easier than others, so almost all skill levels will have several challenging holes to test their abilities. Hole 10 has a raised pin, which is pretty much all the elevation you're gonna see here.

Unlike a lot of decently long courses, this place is still beginner-friendly. There aren't many opportunities to lose discs (just watch our for a little tall grass and the woods by hole 9), and you can still be in a decent position after an errant drive.

While the dog park coming into play on holes 7 and 8 is a bit of a con, the fence is a really interesting challenge on those holes. You have risk-reward throwing over it, but there are layup options as well. It kind of pretends to be a water hazard (don't worry, you can retrieve discs), Having just two holes like this is alright in my book. The course stays away from the rest of the park infrastructure pretty well.

This entire place is as flat as a pancake. Not a triple stack of chocolate chip pancakes with a pile of whipped cream and syrup, just one plain pancake. The design elements make up for it in most ways, but so many holes would be better with a little elevation change. Putting one or two teepads on the levee on the front nine would make things much more fun. More long tees perhaps?

You frequently have to walk quite a bit between holes, and you're walking down the fairways of many holes to get to the next tee. Holes 6, 9, 12, and 16 could easily be skipped if you're not careful. Feel free to throw drives on both holes consecutively if you want to save time.

Some of the pros can also be cons. This isn't a very challenging place for advanced players, and while trying to birdie can be interesting a lot of the time, there aren't as many bogey opportunities as at a lot of other courses. With no thick woods, as long as you miss the first couple of trees, you'll have an easy upshot no matter what happens. Big hyzers, while fun, can also get boring after a while. For the effort you'll be putting into this course, you might not be getting much.

No part of the course is bland... but also no part of the course is truly excellent. There aren't any signature holes, spicy par 4's, or true standouts. Some of the hole numbers are easy to forget since they all have a similar feel.

There are some low-lying areas and a small creek. It never poses much of a lost disc hazard, but you could easily to in there on accident. I think it's mostly meant to be OB, which is probably a good thing, but it's always annoying to land in, if it happens. Sometimes you can't tell where the OB is from the tee.

Since hole 16 has two tees, it would be nice if a few other holes did as well. Some additional short pads would help reduce walks between holes for those using them, and also have holes 7 and 8 stay away from the dog parks better. Some long pads would make wide hyzers less viable on some holes and add some elevation change. Additional pins are always nice but probably aren't needed here.

For being a single-tee, single-pin course with no elevation change, this place isn't bad at all. It has its obvious drawbacks, but is certainly a fun round with decent challenge.

Nice little par 3 course that kind of wraps around the outside of a multi-use park. Like that it starts basically right where you end. Good signage. Enough trees to make every hole interesting. Some water comes into play occasionally and a couple holes do have OB. These things make a pretty boring course a little more interesting.

Not all the tees had a concrete pad. There was some areas that are drainage ditches/ponds that can make the area pretty muddy or wet. Not really any elevation to speak of. No wooded holes. Most holes were pretty open shots with a few trees to make you pick a line. Since it was just a par 3 course and there were plenty of trees spread out there wasn't any holes really that let you rip on a driver. You could easily play this course with a Fairway driver and a putter.

For the size of the town and the layout of the other multi-use things going on in this park the holes were laid out pretty well. For a Par 3 course it was pretty fun. Because of how packed in the holes were to the space and it being a Par 3 course it was quite easy to get a quick round in, which is always nice. Would play this course again if I'm ever in the area.