Durand Creekside DGC at Nick Saelens Memorial Park is a 20 hole course that plays mostly park style with a creek that comes into play in a few places as well as a pond on the latter section. There's numerous other park activities that the front half of the course plays around but it's mostly all DG by the second half.

The baskets are MVP black hole portals on all holes. The course can be played as a traditional 18 holes. These holes feature the blue baskets. There's an additional option for a 20 hole layout. If playing this there's a 5A and 5B which have white black hole portals. These were all in solid shape. A little faded as far as the color but otherwise fine. These catch pretty well and stick out nicely. The baskets all had little american flags attached to the top which was a cool touch you don't see too often. Helped a bit with wind reads and just looked good. One basket and two positions per hole.

The tee pads are all concrete here. Pretty sizeable ones at that. There's a few places where there's a painted area on a walking path which serves as the tee. So I guess a few are asphalt too. These all were in great shape and worked great, even the asphalt pads. One tee pad per hole for the most part. There are a few places that had a long and short tee. Holes 12, 13 and 17 are the ones I can recall offhand.

The course flow is generally pretty easy to follow for the most part. Every next tee pad is visible from the previous basket except for holes 17 and 18. You walk right past hole 17's two tees while playing hole 11. Hole 18 is the only questionable one to locate potentially. Map isn't needed but could be helpful in a couple spots.

The course starts out longer and more open. There's trees in play on most of the holes and lots of OB areas (tennis court, sidewalks, yards, etc). The back half, starting with hole 11 is where it gets more interesting, albeit shorter. The creek and pond come into play in many spots on this section. Hole 17 has a carry over a prairie grass area but it should be easy enough to carry by most players.

The tee signs have been updated since the pictures on here were uploaded. They're really nice now. They have a pretty simple hole map with a next tee arrow, pars and distances to each pin, hole # and any OB in play. These are pretty slick looking signs.

The front half of the course is littered with potential safety issues. Too many to list even. There's all the OB situations I mentioned above. If you play smart it shouldn't be an issue. The problem is this section is pretty wide open and if the wind is up all bets are off, no matter how well intentioned you might be.

On top of that the front half is just boring. I wondered what I got myself into after about 5 holes. Just bland golf that feels crammed into where it shouldn't really be.

Hole 10's tee pad is no more. It looks like they built a maintanence shed and paved in front of it where 10's tee used to be. Not a big deal since it's a wide open hole. Just don't wander aimlessly looking for it.

A number of filler type holes here. Holes 7,8,9 and 10 are just there to get you to the other side of the park. They're just less exciting versions of hole 1. That's a quarter of the course that are all basically the same hole.

This is kind of the tale of two halves. I was not a fan of the front half (12 holes really). But by hole 11 it picked up some steam. It's not a destination course or anything you should go out of your way to play. It is better than LOTS of other options nearby though.

I feel like this is just under a 3 rated course in my eyes. 2.75 would be perfect. I'll bump it up due to the solid equipment. It's a "good" course. You can thank the creek and pond for that though (I kid, kinda). Judging by the pics that are on here now, tons of work goes into this course by the locals. In just a few short years even. Worth a stop if you're nearby.