- Kenney Park DGC in Ligonier, IN boasts a new 18-hole park style course that wends its way through a fairly busy multiuse park. The park is pretty enough, with scattered mature trees (mostly deciduous in nature) and some slightly rolling elevation to spice things up. The course has two elevated baskets: hole #2 atop a log, and the finisher, hole #18 with a hanging basket in the nook of a tree. The course does a decent job of mixing up hole lengths, from very short ace runs (hole #'s 2, 5, 7, 10, 15) to more moderate mid-range lengths (hole #'s 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13) to long bombers (hole #'s 16, 17, & 18). With the exception of the longer shots all being clustered together at the end, the design does a really good job of switching between long and short holes.
- Amenities are solid. New baskets, with a practice basket. Hanging and raised baskets. Great tee pads, some sort of concrete grated pads, which allow for water to drain through to some degree. SIgnage is spectacular, with all the many Mandos and OBs clearly and precisely marked. Speaking of mandos...this course has quite a few, starting out with hole #1: a double mando off the tee! Another double mando (this time more mid-fairway) occurs on hole #11. Hole #16 boasts two single mandos. The mandos help funnel traffic away from people's yards, I guess, on hole #1 and other nearby holes on #11. Mandos are clearly marked on the tee signage as well as with large, easily visible orange arrows on trees. Not the biggest fan of mandos, but if they're going to have them, I like them clearly and explicitly marked, such as at Kenney.
- Rolling elevation comes into play in several spots, with hole #10's downhill ace run being particularly memorable. Nothing drastic, but enough to contend with on holes such as #4 and #16, which are longer, slightly uphill bombers. The "uphillness" of these holes make them play even longer. Hole #13 is pretty awesome (purely from an elevation standpoint, see cons for more on this hole), with a tee more or less elevated a bit temptingly, but with neighborhood directly behind waiting to spoil the shot with OB.
- A splash pad is right after #16, prior to teeing off on #17...nice on a hot day, especially with kiddos, to dip in real quick and cool off.

- Kenney gets points for trying in my book, it really does. A solid enough design in a vacuum, but this is a fairly used park with a lot of other activities crammed in close nearby. The fact that they needed so many mandos, and oodles of OB on nearly every single hole, illustrates that the design tries to bite off just a little too much, in order to maximize the disc golf, perhaps at the expense of the other parkgoers. There's just too much potential for conflict with the walking paths to not ding this course down a little bit on safety concerns.
- A few of the next tees are way too close to the previous basket. Hole #'s 3/4, 10/11, and 17/18 all stick out in my mind as especially egregious.
- Easy to go off property. Immediately the first several holes play along civilians' yards. But the worst offender, and the sketchiest hole from a safety/sustainability factor, is hole #13, which is just itching for a disc to either 1) blast some poor soul turning the corner on the walking path or 2) leave the park and go sailing into the Ligonier general populace, at who knows what cost?
- A few total throwaway holes that exist simply for routing purposes: hole #'s 6, 9, and 12, I'm looking at you.

- Ligonier may be small enough, population-wise, that many of the design conflicts with the rest of the park activities won't come into play. But the conflicts exist, and the design (again, #13 is especially egregious) does get it wrong in places enough to potentially matter down the line.
- I appreciate the enthusiasm of previous reviewer, but this course is nowhere near a five-disc course. Safety and design issues aside, this course would weigh in at a solid enough 3-discer. With oodles of necessary OB and mandatories to prevent pedestrian carnage, I simply cannot award higher than 2.5-discs. Still, I think overall this is a successful course, that perhaps needs a slight rethink on one or two holes (especially hole #13).