Kenney Park is a well kept up city park in Ligonier. The amenities are good and the park has a generally well maintained feel to it.
There is a large course map near the parking lot and great tee signs on every hole. Course navigation is generally good as long as you take a look at the map and look at the tee signs for the next tee location.
The tee pads are a little unusual to look at, but work well and are very grippy. While the same as the tees at Hidden Diamonds, they avoid the issue of having large holes in the tee pads.
The baskets themselves are very nice and in great condition.
There are a good mix of holes here, with nothing being particularly challenging. Holes 14 and 15 were very nice and I wish that this park had more holes like them. We replayed these two holes just because they were a ton of fun!

The park was quiet and nearly empty when we visited, but I cannot imagine how much this course would conflict with other park goers on a busy day. The front 9 weaves in and around walking paths, drives, and private property. An errant throw could easily end up hitting someone or something. Holes 7's basket was less than 30 feet from a park bench. These problems become less of an issue on the back 9.
I felt that the amount of OB and Mandatories on this course was excessive and detracted from the overall experience. The OB I can understand. While I understand how some of the Mandatories are necessary with the design how it is currently, a bunch of these are just there and limit shot selection for no reason.
The front 9 feels like it was crammed into the space it occupies. Navigation is strange, especially on the first 6 holes as the course loops back on itself almost immediately. The back 9 flows better and seems to follow a much more natural route.

Overall this course was fun for a play, but I do not think I would make a specific trip back just for another round here. The safety issues and close proximity to other activities are more prevalent here than most other courses. The use of OB and Mandatories is the only thing that makes this course work.

- Kenney Park DGC in Ligonier, IN boasts a new 18-hole park style course that wends its way through a fairly busy multiuse park. The park is pretty enough, with scattered mature trees (mostly deciduous in nature) and some slightly rolling elevation to spice things up. The course has two elevated baskets: hole #2 atop a log, and the finisher, hole #18 with a hanging basket in the nook of a tree. The course does a decent job of mixing up hole lengths, from very short ace runs (hole #'s 2, 5, 7, 10, 15) to more moderate mid-range lengths (hole #'s 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13) to long bombers (hole #'s 16, 17, & 18). With the exception of the longer shots all being clustered together at the end, the design does a really good job of switching between long and short holes.
- Amenities are solid. New baskets, with a practice basket. Hanging and raised baskets. Great tee pads, some sort of concrete grated pads, which allow for water to drain through to some degree. SIgnage is spectacular, with all the many Mandos and OBs clearly and precisely marked. Speaking of mandos...this course has quite a few, starting out with hole #1: a double mando off the tee! Another double mando (this time more mid-fairway) occurs on hole #11. Hole #16 boasts two single mandos. The mandos help funnel traffic away from people's yards, I guess, on hole #1 and other nearby holes on #11. Mandos are clearly marked on the tee signage as well as with large, easily visible orange arrows on trees. Not the biggest fan of mandos, but if they're going to have them, I like them clearly and explicitly marked, such as at Kenney.
- Rolling elevation comes into play in several spots, with hole #10's downhill ace run being particularly memorable. Nothing drastic, but enough to contend with on holes such as #4 and #16, which are longer, slightly uphill bombers. The "uphillness" of these holes make them play even longer. Hole #13 is pretty awesome (purely from an elevation standpoint, see cons for more on this hole), with a tee more or less elevated a bit temptingly, but with neighborhood directly behind waiting to spoil the shot with OB.
- A splash pad is right after #16, prior to teeing off on #17...nice on a hot day, especially with kiddos, to dip in real quick and cool off.

- Kenney gets points for trying in my book, it really does. A solid enough design in a vacuum, but this is a fairly used park with a lot of other activities crammed in close nearby. The fact that they needed so many mandos, and oodles of OB on nearly every single hole, illustrates that the design tries to bite off just a little too much, in order to maximize the disc golf, perhaps at the expense of the other parkgoers. There's just too much potential for conflict with the walking paths to not ding this course down a little bit on safety concerns.
- A few of the next tees are way too close to the previous basket. Hole #'s 3/4, 10/11, and 17/18 all stick out in my mind as especially egregious.
- Easy to go off property. Immediately the first several holes play along civilians' yards. But the worst offender, and the sketchiest hole from a safety/sustainability factor, is hole #13, which is just itching for a disc to either 1) blast some poor soul turning the corner on the walking path or 2) leave the park and go sailing into the Ligonier general populace, at who knows what cost?
- A few total throwaway holes that exist simply for routing purposes: hole #'s 6, 9, and 12, I'm looking at you.

- Ligonier may be small enough, population-wise, that many of the design conflicts with the rest of the park activities won't come into play. But the conflicts exist, and the design (again, #13 is especially egregious) does get it wrong in places enough to potentially matter down the line.
- I appreciate the enthusiasm of previous reviewer, but this course is nowhere near a five-disc course. Safety and design issues aside, this course would weigh in at a solid enough 3-discer. With oodles of necessary OB and mandatories to prevent pedestrian carnage, I simply cannot award higher than 2.5-discs. Still, I think overall this is a successful course, that perhaps needs a slight rethink on one or two holes (especially hole #13).

KPDGC is the only course in the county that actually has concrete tee pads, The course is very fun with challenges even on the shorter holes. They have made the best use of the land they were given and I can't say enough good things about the overall look of the course from the matching custom basket wraps to the hole signs and the course map. There is a cohesive design that just looks so dang good! And the elevated basket on hole 18 has the potential to be a round killer if you aren't confident in your putting. You'll remember it fondly or hate it for revealing your flaws.

I personally like wooded courses. They tend to be my favorites to play, but as far as park style courses go, this has to be one of my absolute favorites! If I had to pick a con, it's that I wish there were more wooded holes, but the park can't really do much about that. They have done everything right with that they had to work with.

This is my home town course, and it was much needed! I will mostly likely average 5-7 rounds a week here from now on. It will take some time before I tire of playing it. That speaks volumes.