Rockford, IL

Ingersoll Memorial DGC

3.365(based on 7 reviews)
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Johnsondere
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Experience: 1.4 years 136 played 83 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Classic Park Style Golf drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jun 18, 2023 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

- Dual tees for each hole.
- Baskets are in decent condition.
- Well maintained course.
- Decent use of the elevation and trees available.
- Potential for some fun safari holes!
- Easy to navigate

Cons:

- No practice basket or bathrooms (port a potty)
- Not a whole lot of elevation
- Multi-use park, may have some walkers in the area
- Not a whole lot of variety, pretty straightforward

Other Thoughts:

Ingersoll is a pretty classic park style of golf. Placed in a park right next to the local golf course. The only obstacles to maneuver around is trees and the long grass located on a few holes. Nothing really sticks out about this course. Is a pretty fun trek though.
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EspressoPatronum
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Experience: 19.3 years 316 played 298 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Nothing Special; Hit Anna Page First

Reviewed: Played on:Apr 29, 2023 Played the course:once

Pros:

- fairly well maintained park
- nice collection of mature trees add some challenge and line shaping
- nice concrete tees
- navigation is generally straightforward
- dual tees on most holes (all but 1 and 18, I believe)
- all tees are concrete
- next tee markers on baskets
- DISCatcher baskets are in good shape
- white tees add some distance and challenge for intermediate players
- area mostly dedicated to disc golf, minimal safety hazards

Cons:

- fairly basic amenities, port o potties only, no practice basket
- very flat
- some private property boundaries that make losing discs easy
- fairly open course overall
- no real X factor or uniqueness to the course, feels very repetitive
- some of the fairways go back and forth and play closer to each other than is desirable
- unfortunate amount of trash on the ground in some places
- very rudimentary tee "signs: pavers on ground, old tee signs appear to have been damaged/removed
- secondary tees don't create a particularly unique course experience; not as beneficial as they could be
- overly tight mando on hole 8 doesn't offer a great line

Other Thoughts:

Based on the ratings, I expected to like this course more than I did. Looking back, most of them are from inexperienced reviewers, and there aren't that many to begin with. Ingersoll is a perfectly nice park adjacent to a golf course and some private property. As others have mentioned, the designers did a decent job of fitting 18 holes into the space, but I'm not sure if it was even worth it. The course is flat, repetitive, and really doesn't have anything unique. While they made good use of the mature trees to create some challenge, this is no different than any number of city park courses I've played.

This course is certainly worth playing, but with 3 18-hole courses at Anna Page down the road, as well as others, this would probably be about the 5th course I'd play in the Rockford area, if that. It just didn't do anything for me. On holes 7 and 8, you have to be very careful not to stray to the right of the course; both have private property, first a quarry with some huge dropoffs if you venture a bit out of the park, and then someone's private land with farm animals that you wouldn't want to enter if you didn't have to.

Otherwise, the obstacles and OB are pretty pedestrian. I don't love overly strict mandos, and there was one on hole 8 I thought was a bit much, actually forcing you to the right when that's exactly what you want to avoid with the private property. Some may enjoy this, I feel like the course should generally have its own obstacles to create challenge rather than mandated directions, but that's just me.

There's a lot of back and forth here without much variety. It's nice they have port o potties and some garbage cans around, but that's about it for amenities. It was deserted except for a few walkers when I was here at 7 AM on a Friday. It's a pretty typical 1:30 play solo if you don't spend a half hour hunting for discs like I did - outside of holes 7 and 8, I think this is pretty unlikely, and discs should be easy to find.

The baskets and tees are clearly newer and are in great shape. Hopefully the tee signs are next. Each tee has a paver next to it with the hole number and distance stenciled on it, and sometimes a white or red stick/flag to designate which tee it is. There are no maps and the markers are about as minimal as it gets. Still, navigation was not difficult. I'm becoming more and more of a fan of next tee arrows on the baskets themselves; this really helps know where to turn next, especially on more open courses like this without obvious defined trails.

There is ample parking in various places on the road circling the park. If you park in front of the stone structure to your left after entering the park, you are near 1 and 18. While this course didn't do a ton for me, it's a respectable course, and I grudgingly awarded it a 3, though I was on the fence for 2.5 or 3. I think at present it's a bit too highly rated and I strongly recommend checking out Anna Page first.
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SneakyJedi
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Experience: 15.5 years 152 played 84 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Typical Park Course with Potential 2+ years

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Jun 4, 2022 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

- Dual tee locations at almost every hole

- Pleasant park with mature trees is nice and easy to walk through

- Good mix of distances especially when the dual tees are taken into account

Cons:

- Limited challenge and interest off the tee, little shot shaping required

- Tee area, baskets, and signage could all use an upgrade

- Routing can be challenging in places your first time out, bring a map

Other Thoughts:

The disc golf course at Ingersoll Memorial Park is a typical park style course for Illinois. The designers did a good job fitting an 18-hole course with dual tees on what feels like a pretty small footprint. The course is compact without feeling crowded. It can be played quickly, and I didn't notice any locations where the basket was too close to the next tee, though some of the fairways do get a bit closer than is ideal. My group also had the course to ourselves on a Wednesday afternoon. The density of the course does make navigation a bit tricky since you can almost always see several baskets and tee flags wherever you are on the course.

The equipment on this course could definitely use an upgrade, and hopefully this is a course that will get some incremental improvements as it ages. Almost all the tees are natural with two or three having a sort of astro-turf pad. There are color coded flags with a hole number at many/most of the tees, but there were also many where the flags were missing on my visit. The pavers marking the front of the tee are very hard to find without the flags, and even with a course map it took a while to locate some of the tees. The Mach 3s are adequate baskets, but spit throughs and chain outs are pretty much inevitable on every round. It was hard moving on to these baskets after playing on the nice, new DISCatchers and Black Holes at Anna Page. Concrete tee pads, permanent signage, and new baskets would go a long way to improve the feel of this course.

The quality of the golf here is nothing to write home about, but there are enough obstacles and very slight changes in topography to keep things interesting and allow for a fun round. It is almost impossible to get in trouble on any particular hole, and most of the holes blend together without anything really sticking out much. There are a few locations where a shot shape is suggested, but the majority of the time you will have the choice to throw the shot you are most comfortable with. Dual tees are always great and, even though most of the white tees simply extend the length of the fairways, they add about 1500' to the course and some more interesting shots as well.

Ingersoll isn't a course to get excited about, especially compared to the Anna Page courses right down the road, but you can definitely have a fun round here. More courses and more options are always better. There is potential for an even better course here in the future, and it is already a great option for newer players or when the nearby courses are crowded.

****UPDATE****
Since my initial review new DISCatcher baskets and concrete tees for both short and long positions have been installed. Permanent signs are still a work in progress and there are still a few routing issues. There is more interest off the tee from the long pads than I remembered, but a lot of holes will play as birdie-or-die from the shorts or par 3.5's from the longs for intermediately skilled players. Happy to see the work being put into this and the other Rockford courses. Rating bumped up half a disc.
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