- good variety of hole lengths and shot types
- practice basket
- large concrete tees
- bathrooms by parking lot (though locked in winter months)
- reflector strips on baskets help with visibility
- basic but serviceable baskets
- respectable elevation change due to numerous hills
- good number of mature tree obstacles require some shot shaping
- ample parking
- picturesque park with cool river views
- some cool throws from high elevation
- very clean and well maintained park
- no major safety hazards
- navigation is generally clear, though a few next tee signs could help
- park benches at some holes

- no garbage cans (pack it out course, not necessarily a con if respected)
- tee signs are pretty basic and have no maps
- decent layer of leaf debris during winter months can swallow discs
- water hazards don't factor in much despite proximity to river
- can be a bit busy

Lustig Park is a very respectable course in a strong disc golf state. I struggled to find many real cons for this course. While it may be about a 3.25 for me, I decided to give it the benefit of the doubt. A bit more technical wooded lines would make it better for me, but this is somewhat subjective.

It's hard to fault the design and layout of this course. While not championship caliber, it is well maintained and clean, navigation is clear, holes are challenging and make good use of the terrain, and equipment is serviceable or better. There is good elevation change and shot shaping and it's just a fun round. I do see this being a park that could get quite busy, which isn't a bad thing really but is something I would consider a minor con.

Newer baskets might be nice here, but they catch well enough. Similarly, tee signs with maps would be an upgrade, but the other relevant information is all there. While there are some really neat views of the Rock River, the risk of losing a disc to it is very low (pro or con depending on your perspective!). After hole 13, there is a very steep dropoff down to the river; this is probably your best chance of overthrowing and losing one.

For having no garbage cans, this course looked remarkably good. It restores a bit of my faith in humanity. In addition to the dropoff on hole 13, I really liked the downhill throw on hole 12 from high elevation. This does play near the entrance road, which is probably the closest thing to a safety hazard I noted. There is also a "borrow a sled" box on this hill for winter sledding which I've never seen before and thought was so cool, especially since the sleds haven't all been stolen.

Overall, there is a decent level of challenge here, but this course is definitely accessible to a variety of skill levels. There are a few more wooded technical holes, but mostly this is a moderately wooded but still somewhat open course where elevation change and some decent distance are the name of the game.

Navigation is mostly clear but I did embarrass myself and throw the wrong direction off of the 17 tee until someone corrected me. If you look closely there are brass numbers at the front of the tee pad that indicate the direction for the whole, but sometimes these aren't very obvious as they've darkened with age. Usually the proper direction is pretty clear but sometimes multiple baskets are visible.

If you are in the Janesville area, this one is definitely worth a stop. Madison and Milwaukee probably have more high caliber courses, but the Janesville/Evansville area is a respectable disc golf stop and this course is worth playing again.

- Open park with most holes shaped by large mature trees. A prototypical, old school "Park Golf" course with a lot to offer players of all skill types.
- Decent amenities with bathrooms, water, and a playground in the middle of the course. Handful of benches throughout the course. Also a kiosk to start the course, with the basic map shown here on DGCR.
- Some good thought to hole design around the huge 100-150 year old trees here. It's certainly not haphazard, with there definitely being more advantageous plays on many of the holes. However, if you really want, most holes can be played with whatever your go-to FH or BH drive is.
- Love #12, which is the signature hole. Who doesn't love to bomb a driver downhill? 450 ft that can play like 375.
- Some nice wrinkles in #5, #15, and #16 that I liked too. Using the woods a little bit as you can. I love holes that give you something to think about as you tee off out of the woods and into the open. You shouldn't hit the first available tree off the tee….but could you?
- Also a fan of the trees in front of the #10 tee pad. There certainly are lines to the basket, but they most certainly are not straight-forward.
- In general, I wouldn't say there's a LOT of elevation here, but what's here is used well. Some slightly downhill or slightly uphill, and some going across the rolling depressions. Nicely done.

- This course is really packed in there. While none of the holes technically overlap - there's a fair amount of overlap. Especially with how approachable this course is for beginners, you need to keep your head on a swivel, and bellow if you lose a drive in a direction you didn't mean to.
- The safety hazard of the #7 basket while standing on the #8 tee is particularly memorable for me. They're right next to each other, without a screen or other barricade.
- Also, for overlap, the road is very much in play on a handful of holes. I twice saw discs flying near moving cars around hole 12.
- Basic signage with number and distance, but not much else. Most holes have multiple pins listed, but it's very difficult to have any idea which of the placements you're shooting at unless you have a very good handle on distances. Also not sure how often they're moved - some of the alternate in-grounds looked pretty beat up and not likely to accept a basket.
- To that, as others have mentioned, dialing in on the desired basket your first go round can be tough. There are so many baskets in view. Having a picture of the basic map from the kiosk is a must to have the general correct direction for each hole. We were obviously not the only newbies to the course that day, as there were others before and after us kind of wandering around looking for direction.
- Also, physically seeing the baskets in or near the woods was sometimes very hard. The interior basket poles have bright chartreuse reflective tape on them, which helps a little, but even that gets lost in the sun and shadows. Bright orange or red tape, or flags on top of the baskets would help most pin positions here. Probably less of an issue if you play this course often.

- Probably the best part of this course is how approachable it is for groups of varying skill sets. It's a really fun course to play. Part of that is because of the lack of real 'trouble' you can get into, and part of it is just for how easy of a walk about the park it provides as a round. This is very evident by the number of people playing we saw on a Sunday morning, as well as the heavily trafficked fairways and basket placements.
- Having a course like this as my home course would be just fine with me. It'd get a lot of play.
- Rounding up on the course rating just for it's play-ability and old school park course feel.

+ Lots of mature trees here that act as the main obstacle on this course.

+ This park is purely dedicated to disc golf (with small exceptions of a playground and a pavilion) and is very well maintained. This combo (manicured and exclusive) is a pretty rare thing among public park disc golf courses. There are also restrooms on-site and there is abundant parking.

+ A clear signature hole (#12). This is a fun downhill 400 ft + bomb where you can feel really, really good about grabbing a two.

- The tee signs desperately need an update to include a map. Alternatively, a big number should be placed on the baskets to clearly indicate navigation. Even with a map, I was very confused on where I should be throwing.

- With the exception of maybe 3-4 holes, the holes felt monotonous. There wasn't anything to really "wow" me with the exception of the aforementioned hole 12. But with hole 12, I could see safety being an issue. The road is downhill and to the right which means the majority of discs are going to naturally fade in that direction (RHBH).

- It was pretty busy when I stopped by. This normally isn't a problem, but some of the groups didn't know the navigation either and ended up jumping around which threw a lot of people off.

- All in all, not as fun as I was hoping it would be and it's pretty unlikely that I'll return.

I was up in the air between 3 and 3.5 on this for a while. However, I ended up going with 3 because I felt the cons outweighed the pros.

That said, I'm glad to check this course off the list because I feel it's pretty popular and I've been wanting to play it for like 3 years now.

Well designed course in a nice park.
Varied shots, depending on basket placement.
Multiple basket locations.
Beginner friendly 18.
Best tee pads I've ever played.

Some may find it a bit short.
Some baskets tough to see from tee.
Been playing while visiting for years here now and nobody here has ever bothered to say hello, and I regularly have people throwing into me or playing slow without offering a play-through.

Intermediate players should be able to score well here, and it's very beginner friendly. It's a better beginner course than the few 9 hole options in Evansville, Milton, and Edgerton. I think that's a nice feature of an 18 hole course. Experts might get bored after a few plays. But, the multiple basket locations help with that. I've played it several times each of the past 5 summers and I've seen new basket positions each summer. Some baskets are a bit hard to see from the tees, but that's not too uncommon. The park is clean, and seems well cared for. All in all it's a fun course and for an intermediate player like me that's really what I'm after.

18 holes with chainstar baskets set in a nice park with some big mature trees. Not heavily wooded but enough big trees around to help define multiple lines to each pin.

Most teepads were more than ample in size. No complaints at all here. Good use of the rolling elevation change and a good number of pins weren't on a level green, so roll-aways on poor putts and approaches were real possibility.

Most holes are reachable, with a few longer ones mixed in there, but have some risk/reward coupled with them. Some elevated baskets make for added difficulty, and there are some baskets with drop offs that will punish you for missing a run at them.

Navigation is the only real significant problem with this course.

The tee signs are outdated. Either there are multiple pin placements on each hole or they moved the baskets, difficult to tell on initial play through. None of the baskets have numbers on them, and tee signs don't have maps - couple those things with being able to see multiple baskets from each tee and you're likely to throw at the wrong one, which I'm pretty sure we did at least once. Signs with hole layout would help immensely here, since you're probably going to be looking off the tee and seeing 3-4 baskets at about any given time.

This course is definitely park golf. If it is busy, you're likely to hear 'FORE!' a few times, and see people playing all over the place since the holes and baskets are all fairly close to each other. That fact doesn't make it a poor course at all though. A couple of mandos for safety and better signage and you'd have a great day in the park.

Great course with some fun wooded holes. A few of the holes were very challenging even for a skilled player. A few of the holes were "Aceable" holes. Has nice clean bathrooms. Vending machines. Not much to dislike about this course.

The next hole was hard to find sometimes. Would be nice to have the number of the hole on the baskets. Otherwise a really fun course.

One of the best courses I have played at. I played while visiting family and I was really pleased. Would definitely recommend. I played early on a weekday and I was the only one on the course. At night it was a bit more crowded.

18 hole course set in Lustig Park in Janesville, WI.

Nice Chainstar baskets, all in decent enough repair and well mounted. Several holes had multiple pin positions. There was some really nice pin positions here, with real chances of roll-aways, and lots of risk/reward putting.

Concrete tee pads, all in decent enough shape. Mostly long and wide enough. One tee position per hole.

Really nice use of the terrain here. The park is basically all rolling hills, but with a decent amount of elevation change. Most of the holes have some aspect of up or down to them. The first hole is a nice downhill wooded shot that gets you right into the action.

Tons of mature trees here are the other main obstacle. Nearly all the holes have multiple lines if you search hard enough, and they were nearly all plenty fair. Only a couple really tight spots, and even those weren't necessarily unfair.

A nice array of distances, from very short to a nice 460+ downhill bomber. It never felt like you were throwing the same distances too many times in a row, especially with the hills in play.

It would be pretty tough to lose a disc here, as there's very little heavy rough. A nice perk on a course with so many trees.

There's not a ton to hate here. The tee signs are old and outdated, and the navigation suffers because of it on your first spin. It's not terrible, but you can get turned around, especially around holes 13-14.

Dual tees and more alt pin positions would be nice here, but you'd probably just end up with a bunch of shorter holes if it was done.

This place can be pretty busy, being the only good course in the area. Lots of 2 disc chuckers, and lots of other park patrons roaming around the pavilion areas. The course also has a few holes that run next to the road, with a real chance of hitting vehicles on errant throws or bad tree kicks.

Overall, this is just a solid course. It's not crazy hard, but it's not overly easy, either. You can work on a plethora of different shots if you want to because of the layout of the obstacles. This would make for a great course to hone your skills if it were your home course. Definitely worth a spin if you're in the area.

The course is a modestly wooded and modestly hilly city park that is far better than most city parks. The course has been improved dramatically over the years and it now has great length to go along with an exceptionally good use of the landscape and foliage (which is mostly very big and mature trees).

The course isn't marked that well. The signs are vastly out of date and not reflective of the new distances. One tee sign is planted at the back of a tee pad, preventing a player from using that angle and taking his legitimate 3 meters off the tee pad to start. This is one of my pet peeves if you've read my reviews and I have a message for all course designers:
FOR SAFETY AND LIABILITY REASONS, PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOUR TEE SIGNS ARE A MINIMUM OF 3 METERS AWAY FROM THE TEE PAD AND PREFERABLY TO THE REAR AND LEFT.

Lustig is an 18 holer locacted in a really nice city park. Nothing fancy, yet definitley not boring. Disc golf is taking off in southern Wisconsin, and this course being busy is a direct result of that. The weekends here get busy, but I've never had to wait to play.

*Well kept grounds. Props to whoever maintains the course. Not a lot of brush to punish throws unless you really shank one.
*Massive tee pads
*Lots of parking near hole 1
*Very clean bathrooms and functional beverage machines also next to hole 1
*benches and garbage cans located on nearly every hole
*Lots of true par 3's keep it competitive
*A handful of baskets are right along the wood lines or slightly in the woods offering an interesting drive/approach shot
*some varrying elevation also adds somewhat of a challenge and a lot of fun on hole 12
*nice quiet neighborhood surrounds the course

*signs could use directional indicators of where the basket lies. The signs only list par and hole distance
*hole 16 sign completely missing
*can get a bit confusing distinguising which tee and basket is next on the front 9 because the holes are crammed together (I suggest snapping a pic of the course map on your smart phone before starting for reference while navigating)
*Crowded (not complaining, its great for the sport)

I love this place. For a typical course located in a city park this place uses the elevation and basket placement quite well. Facilities are well kept and in order. Difficult to lose a disc here. I would travel to this course if I didn't live in the area. Props to the guys running this place.

-Simple front 9 and varied back nine.
-Clearly marked and well maintained.
-Lots of shady trees.

-A few missing signs.
-No score cards or individual maps.
-Lots of bugs!

Tee boxes are in great shape. Lots of people playing- very popular.

What I love about this course is its mixture of open and nicely wooded areas. The trees are all huge old oak trees and spaced out. There is almost no risk of throwing your disc into the wilderness and losing it, or having to dig through dense forest to find it. I have been playing this course for the past 5 years I think and in my opinion, its the best course in the area. (Madison has it beat, but thats an hour away)

Gets somewhat busy but the majority of the time you can play without waiting for the people ahead of you.

Course can be kind of confusing to navigate first time playing, but my advice is to look for the metal plaque/inlay on the end of the cement tees. That little metal square is always at the BACK of the tee, so hopefully that will help you throw to the right basket if there is any confusion!

I believe that Alcohol is NOT allowed. Park has clean bathrooms and a water fountain next to the first tee. Well-maintained.

-Really nice use of the trees
-Challenging enough to keep you focused
-Multiple basket locations to keep that "new" feeling

-Not too much variety
-Seems like a sketchy area

Very nicely wooded course. Enough trees to force lines, yet still forgiving enough to not be an annoyance. Seemed to be some sketchy people when I played but nothing I was too worried about. Only one wide open hole with all the rest in varying levels of woodedness.

GIANT concrete tee pads (some larger than the patio at my house).

Alternate basket placements.

Course was well kept; an appropriate amount of garbage cans and benches at tees.

Course uses slight elevation changes in park to its advantage. Many holes are under 300 feet but play longer due to elevation.

Good variety of shots (straight, righty, lefty).

All holes are reachable (many ace runs), great use natural lines shaped through large old trees.

Course has tee signs with distances, but no diagram of the hole itself. The front half of the course has many baskets and tees in view so knowing exactly where to throw might be a touch confusing for first timers.

Lots of bugs at the course, and I played around noon. I'm not from the area, so that may just be normal around these parts.

Many of the tees are near the basket from the previous hole. Lots of casual golfers (good thing), so watch out for errant shots that might come in at you from various angles.

Overall I had a great time at this course. The old trees shape lines throughout the course and pretty much every hole is reachable. The alternate pin placements looked like they aren't simply 10 feet away from the original placements. It's definitely a fun course to hit up if you're in the area.

Hole 12 will make you want to empty your entire bag, killer view of the park and a sweet golf hole.

Has great mix of open wooded long and short nice baskets
Grounds kept very clean
Bathrooms on site along with vending machines
Teepads nice and in great shape
Overall a solid fun course

My biggest concern is some of the crowd that plays here.
You'd think you were playing in the yard at the county jail at times

Worth a stop love changing it up and playing here

Great concrete tees and decent signage. There a couple cool holes like 7, 12, and 16. 7 is a nice downhill 400 footer. 12 tees off very high and you must keep your drive from hyzering out ob to have a look a birdie. If you have a big arm you may want to throw a fairway driver on this hole. 16 is a tough birdie to get as you must first navigate through a tightish gap and then glide way right slightly uphill. There a couple tighter wooded holes here but not very many.

The lines here are not challenging at all. The sparse large trees just are not enough to force any lines. You can basically throw the same shot over and over on most of the holes. The course is also rather short and there is not many opportunities to throw drivers.

I was a bit confused on where to go next after the big downhill hole. Go to the hole on the right not the left after the downhill hole.

They did what they could with the land I suppose.

Nice variety in shots, big oak tree canopy, and fairly well maintained. There's a fence with a gate next to the courses wooded holes.

The shots vary but most hover around 300 feet in length, nothing too terribly technical but some shots are definitely challenging. Overall the balance of the course is player friendly and a great course for a casual round with friends. The longest hole is off the top of the hill on #12, which you can really open up on, otherwise most of the course can be played with fairway driver or a midrange

Can get congested in the beginning of the course, but seems to open up well once you're beyond the first few holes. Some holes are close to the park road and have the potential for you to hit cars, so be careful. There are some erosion problems where the ground is bare dirt, so plan on getting your discs a little dusty. Also, although course is balanced, it's not as technical as some may desire.

The large amount of oak leaves on the ground in fall can make your disc vanish when it lands, keep an eye out.

I've Aced-Hole 8-Eco Star Excalibur 175g

For the beginner, this would be a nice course.
Some of the tee-pads are REALLY nice.
The river is pretty.
Holes 10 and 11 are very nice.

Quite short for anyone above intermediate.
Some tee-pads are REALLY close to fairways on other holes.
Some tee-pads are noticeably shorter than the others.
Some of the baskets are really low. It's odd.

It's not that this is an awful course, it's just not a 3.5. I was actually a bit dissapointed when I drove down to play it, expecting something more from the ratings it had already received.

If you're down there already, play it. But don't travel very far to get there.

The course is located in a very nice well kept park. Tee #1 is right next to the restroom and parking area. The park is scattered with large trees and slow rolling terrain. Some thicker rough lines the north side of the park.

Excellent concrete tee pads. They are plenty spacious and level!

The majority of the baskets have been updgraded to brand new Discraft Chainstars.

Tee signs on every hole. There were many with brand new print outs of the hole information.

This course was very easy to navigate. The only spot we missed was the transition from 12 to 13. We went to hole 15 on accident.

Hole #12 is super fun! Large hill with the basket out about 450 to 500ft. Road to the left out of bounds. Let rrrr Rip!

This is a great beginner course as there are very few places to lose a disc. It's a nice walk in the park.

The course is pretty basic in terms of see the basket and throw to it. Most had basic pick your route lines.

This course is fairly short considering it's 5,400 feet and pretty open. There are no real tunnel type holes.

Overall this is an enjoyable course. It's a good option to play if you are traveling between Madison, Milwaukee, & Rockford.

- Course is set in a hilly park with a ton of trees. There are some pavilions and such around, so interference from other park users is definitely possible. Some holes also play next to the road.
- Large majority of the holes are set amongst a ton of trees, which take away a lot of lines from the tee. For the most part, there are obvious lines to take to the basket. A pretty good mix of lines, there are a bunch of obvious hyzers and anhyzers, and a few where you have a choice of two wider lanes. There are some relatively open ones, and some that are quite tight.
- A couple holes are in tighter woods, where there is rough/jail off the fairway. These are pretty tight as well; well suited to a straightish RHFH shot. There are also some big downhill shots to complement these, wide open and pretty sloped.
- Constant elevation changes on this hole, there is very little flat ground. Great variety, with some tougher and easier ups and downs. Some sloping fairways as well, and some sloped greens near the end. Good variety in hole length too.
- Good signs, some giant teepads, navigation is pretty simple (#13 is past #15). Baskets are a little odd, with no top ring, but they catch fine (even allow some DROT through).

- The terrain here is fairly consistent, what you see is what you get. There is no water here, and very little rough as well. A poor drive doesn't necessarily mean a poor score here. It can also get a little repetetive, though the lines aren't all the same, the look is.
- Layout is a little funky, there are some places where fairways are close, and one teepad is directly in another fairway. Definitely have to keep an eye out in spots.

- A fun course that isn't too challenging, it's well suited to almost everybody. More experienced players will probably be able to skate through without any issues, but still have a good time.

The course is an old school par three design winding through mature oak trees. The majority of the holes require hitting a line through the mature trees with some minor elevation and little to no underbrush. Most shots give you options on which line to take, though a couple holes are tighter and make you hit a specific line to get the deuce.

There are a couple of longer holes that many players will pull out a fairway or distance driver on, otherwise it's a pretty short track with some minor distance variations. The concrete tees are large and in nice shape. The signs are plenty descriptive and the flow of the course is easy to follow. The homemade baskets catch fine and the park is nicely kept.

With large spaces between the mature trees and no underbrush, a hyzer line is available on nearly every hole and there just isn't much punishment for missing your line. There aren't really any holes here where it's difficult to recover for par even with an early tree hit. Because a lot of the holes are relatively short, it feels a bit repetitive at times.

Many holes play near one another, including several where the next tee is in play. This could cause some safety issues on a busy day, make sure to keep an eye out for errant discs. The baskets catch fine but have lots of sharp ends sticking out that can take chunks out of your putters.

This is a great course for newer players to start learning to shape different lines. There are enough trees that you have to be a little creative, but not a ton of distance or rough. More experienced players will definitely have a chance at birdie on nearly all the holes here, and there aren't many that threaten a bogey if you screw up.