- Course is set in a very small park that also has a skatepark on-site. Can't imagine there would be any interference.
- The only items of interest out here are some extremely small trees and some extremely small bumps. There is the most minimal line shaping imaginable; as long as the disc doesn't go in the one spot where the small trees are, it's a good line. The most interesting features are mandos around the tiny trees, which are in place for safety concerns.
- Little bumps can make for some uphill putts, but are not a major factor.
- Nice signs and baskets, grass tees are in good shape.

- Very, very, short hole lengths here. Average of 192'; putter shots for everyone except the most inexperienced beginners.
- Holes are crammed together in the very small area. I can't imagine you would ever encounter anyone else out here, but if you did, heads up! Also kinda close to the skate park in a few spots, though it would take a horribly poor shot to go over the fence.

- Yup, this is a course for ultra-beginners only.

Volunteer Park is a nice, well-maintained multi-use park that includes a disc golf course playing around a skate park. You heard that right...all nine holes play on three sides of an average-sized skate park. The course features nice baskets and accurate tee signs. All of the shots are short and beginner friendly. A few of the baskets sit up on top of small mounds to give the course some variety. Most holes have a solitary sapling in the middle of the fairway and the tee signs seem to suggest the saplings are mandos, which would make sense since the holes are very close together and the mandos might help keep people in the right fairway.

The course plays too close to the skate park and the holes play too close together. The only thing minimizing that safety hazard is that you should be tossing a putter on these short shots.

Most of the course is dead flat, and the shots all look the same minus the few that incorporate the small mounds. Add in the fact that there are almost no obstacles and all the tee shots are glorified approach shots and the course gets boring fast.

Even with good signs, I found the course hard to navigate. There were so many tees and baskets visible that it was had to know which tee was next or which basket you should be throwing to.

The tees were grass and the turf was bumpy and uneven. I tripped a couple of times just trying to walk on the turf.

The design ends up just looking like baskets scattered in a field, and the experience ended up feeling like something other than playing disc golf. In the end I felt like I had to rate this course as a "0" since it really didn't end up meeting my basic criteria of actually being a disc golf course. There were baskets and we threw discs at them, but it was more of a goof experience than anything else.

Volunteer Park is very much a niche course design, and that niche would be small children, beginners and senior. I feel there is a need for courses that are friendly to these populations, but the execution of Volunteer Park is very bad. The shot design has no imagination and the amount of land is too small. After being introduced to disc golf at a course like Volunteer Park, I'm afraid no one would have had enough fun to stick with the sport.

In the end, all you need to know about Volunteer Park you can tell from the tees. The course was installed in 2006, but it looks like it might have gone in the ground last week. There was absolutely no wear patterns around the tees, just green grass. In six years the course has not received enough play to wear out the grass on the tees. If you miss this one, you won't be the only one.

- Volunteer Park sports a skate park, soccer fields, and a disc golf course. The DGC is nestled around the fenced-in skate park, and plays alarmingly close to the fence in a couple places. Most holes have at least one obstacle, often in the form of a single sapling. Other holes have small berms of grassy earth with which to contend.
- Beginner friendly to the max, very few holes stretch past 200', if that. Several are laughably short, and are basically long putts from the "tee pad." No need for the drivers at this course. Ace runs galore for more experienced players, and really just about anybody who can kinda throw straight.
- Nice signage clearly details each hole. On each of the holes with a solitary sapling as the only hazard, the maps seem to specify these trees as mandos, with the fairway going to one side. This is necessary because of the close proximity of adjacent fairways.

- #1 plays ridiculously close to the skate park fence. I can imagine this routinely results in dangerous situations. Adding to the absurdity, several fairways basically overlap each other. Baskets are awkwardly close to each other, and other tees. Considering this is a beginners' course, safety should be pretty high on the list of necessities, but it's sorely lacking in this layout.
- The lack of distance, significant elevation, and mature trees make this course one dimensional to say the least.
- Natural grass for pads. Lumpy grass might not provide very good footing in adverse conditions.

- Beginner courses like Volunteer Park fill a valuable niche in the disc golf world; however, Volunteer Park does a particularly bad job of executing a safe course design. It was fun enough as a quick ace-race distraction during empty course conditions, but nothing I'd ever want to play again.
- Unless you're super desperate for some discin', hit up some of the nearby courses instead.

-Nice baskets (those that are still there)
-Good laughs to be had from tee signs (sub 200' par 4)
-Constant wind provides some challenge (not really)

-Totally wide open
-Holes are really, really short with no obstacles
-Grass tees
-Apparently 3 baskets are missing
-0 challenge
-0 line shaping required

Don't waste your time, unless you are trying to play every course skip this sorry excuse for one. Lewis University has a great 9 hole course nearby, go there instead. I like how some of the baskets are on small, grassy mounds, but that alone can't save these abysmal holes.

if you barely know how to play this is the place to come. wide open and a par 5 for holes less than 300

boring, short, way to easy, open, and i think the hole 9 got taken away

by far the worst course i have played