Good short & long distance few tree shots to get around.

Tee markers and distance and pars weren't correctly. When it does rain steady it is wet and soggy on some spots when I played back in May 24 2019.

Maryknoll is another lovely park in this immediate area. The park includes mini golf, playgrounds, platform tennis courts (Switch over to pickleball, it's a much better game). The tee pads are large trapezoid shaped ones. They're great. The baskets are INNOVA Discatchers with the yellow bands. The signs give the usual, hole #, Par, and distance, although the course has obviously been redesigned so the distances are actually quite a bit shorter than listed on the signs. Someone has written the actual distances on the signs with a sharpie. Thank you for that courtesy. I'll bet they lowered them in order to keep discs out of the neighbor's yards. There are signs which give you a number to call if your disc finds it way into someone's yard.

The course starts with the first three holes over near the platform tennis courts, then plays in a mostly counterclockwise direction, with the backyards of the neighboring homes on your right. It really gave me that country club feel with these nice houses just off the course. Because you're playing counterclockwise, you won't be throwing many hysers here.

I liked this course and felt it had some personailty. # 4 was a fun throw protected by a few trees. And # 9 was fun throw to a blind basket sitting on a small hillside.

The course definitely is set close to the neighbor's backyards. More than a few discs will find their way into those yards.
Better players won't find enough challenge here.
A couple holes are open and on the boring side.

I'M sure shortening a few holes was done to help prevent discs from landing in backyards. I'm also sure some players were not happy with this reduction in length.
I liked this course. I really felt like a golfer with all these nice homes bordering the course. I think it should be rated as another typical Chicago niner, that is a 2.5 rating, but because I liked it so, I'm bumping my rating up to a 3.0.

Tees are in pretty good shape. Not big rectangular slabs of concrete, just the right size and shaped like a trapezoid. Can't argue with Discatcher baskets either.
The GE park district is one of the best in Chicagoland, so the course itself is in pretty good shape. Last I checked the chains were rusting over, but that should be taken care of. Mowed regularly.

I've only been playing for a short while, but from the maps and previous reviews, I think this course has changed in layout on some holes a couple times. This makes navigation a little tough. The map at the kiosk and in the links/files site is not up to date. It shows #6 as starting in the woods beyond hole 5, but now it's in the middle of the basin that 5 plays around.
Yes, the yardages on tee signs are way off. They probably kept the same signs when they had previous layouts, so they're not up to date either. #7 is listed as a 435 ft par 5, but instead might be around 200-225.
NOTE: The basket for #6 is not the one that's visible from the tee (that's 8). Instead, it's a dogleg right over the hill, at the base of a tree.
Safety is pretty good, except for on 3 and 4 there is a park path to the right that's partially obscured. In the spring, there may be t-ball games going on too around holes 8 and 9.

The whole park facility is great, there's a lot of activities. Like most Chicago 9 holers, I think they built the course to use space that otherwise might not be utilized. But this is much better than most of them because it's designed very well.
This merits a 3, in my opinion, because they made the best course out of the space that they could. It's pretty well designed if you think about it. Except for holes 1 or 2, there's some element of the landscape or park that plays into each hole. 3/4 are wooded, 5 plays on a slight ridge, 6 and 7 play in a basin, 8 ends with a tough basket location, and 9 plays along and above a hillside. The signage and navigation bring it down a little, but all in all it's a great place to play. Not very crowded usually, so you can breeze through pretty quickly if you want.
So this is my first review, and it has to go to my original home course. I learned the game here and it wasn't at all a bad place to start.

Beautifully maintained course that is part of a larger park complex with minigolf, ziplines, multiple playgrounds, etc. Teepads are well marked and defined and taper toward the front in an elongated, trapezoidal shape. Course is almost completely wide open, with less than 10 trees that come into play. On hole 4, if you hit the woods to the right of the fairway, there is a path on the other side to easily find your disc. I liked the setup for hole 9 with a hill bisecting most of the fairway with the upper side down the right half of the fairway and the entire fairway rising up shortly before the basket.

The par ratings and distances seem off, sometimes laughably so. I'm wondering if that is just a Chicagoland issue, as I've run into that at multiple area courses.

From tee 6, you can see the basket for hole 8, but not for 6 and it could be a little confusing, though I thought the distance looked wrong and jogged ahead to double check. Hole 7's teepad is cracked around the midpoint. Holes 7 & 8 run a little too close together and it is quite easy to cross fairways (in three rounds, I crossed to the opposite side of 8's fairway twice and was on the border between fairways the other round).

I've read that you can rent discs from the store building by the minigolf course, but haven't tried to rent them myself. The staff inside were quite friendly and helped direct me to the first tee. They also offer a number of food and beverage items in the shop. There are trash cans available by several tees, but they seem to be clustered near the end rather than evenly spaced throughout. This is a good starter course and a good ego course for experienced players.