- concrete tees, though a little on the small side
- high quality blue banded DISCatcher baskets
- porta potties, picnic tables, garbage cans, and benches in park
- well maintained multi-use park
- area is mostly devoted to disc golf until hole 9
- decent mix of hole lengths, on the longer side for a 9 hole
- navigation was mostly clear
- likely not ever that busy

- tee signs are just numbers on posts
- really weird interferences with ball golf driving range
- extremely repetitive holes
- high lost disc potential in prairie plant rough
- extremely flat
- very limited hazards; some trees on first few holes
- no wow factor whatsoever and not much challenge beyond staying on the fairway

Sycamore Park started out ok for the first few holes with some rolling hills and mature trees, but it quickly became clear this was not the kind of course I was going to enjoy. I love native prairie areas; that's how northern Illinois is supposed to be. Unfortunately, it doesn't play well as a disc golf course. Continually hunting discs out of 6 ft tall plants has just never been enjoyable to me.

The fairways here are plenty wide so keeping your disc on them for the most part should be too much of a challenge. That said, this is a longer 9 hole course so you may be ripping your longest drives at the expense of some accuracy. The final 2/3s of the course felt very repetitive: flat, open except for prairie rough, limited obstacles, greater than average distance. Nothing is really challenging your technical accuracy here and after awhile you're just baking in the sun and want to be done. Note that there were also some pretty aggressive red-winged blackbirds to watch out for, though they didn't end up doing more than squawk at me.

This park was mowed and generally well maintained, though parking started between holes 1 and 2, so I just played 2-9 and finished with hole 1 which makes for a good loop. The weirdest part of the course is hole 9. After hole 8 plays really close to the ball golf driving range, hole 9 plays directly across it. Hole 1 also does this and is perhaps even worse. This is such an incomprehensible design choice I can't put it into words. Even someone with no knowledge of either sport should recognize this as a safety hazard and at minimum a large inconvenience. It makes no sense and there was a guy practicing who I had to take turns with, sheepishly.

There aren't a ton of great courses in this area but most are better than this one. Unless you want to bag everything, I would not recommend stopping here, there is just nothing about this course that makes it worthwhile beyond some casual practice.

-The course has it's own secluded corner of the large sports spark.
-Longer holes (I don't think there is a hole under 275ft).
-Natural fairway/rough with prairie grass.
-Concrete tee pads.
-Nice flow between holes (I never felt lost or confused on where to go next).

-Large willow trees and oak trees are more for surrounding beauty and not used as obstacles in the course (This is fine, but I feel that they could have used some of the huge trees for some interesting shots.
-Not really a beginner friendly course with the longer distances of each hole.
-Not really a technical course, open but fun for trying to throw longer shots.

I was pleasantly surprised with this course. Sometimes a community 9 hole can be a field with some baskets, and that was my fear when I saw where they were putting this course. It actually is very well kept and can be pretty fun. The course get's a little repetitive with some of the straight long holes, but it's a chance to work on your long throws. It isn't anything to go out of your way to play, but if you are in the area and want to play a course that has longer holes than DeKalb, Kirkland and St. Charles, check out Sycamore. I will frequent this course because it is very close to my house.