Bevier Park - Henry Pfau Callahan DGC

05/22/2020

UPDATE:
Work Day at Bevier Park
This Saturday, May 23
8:00am-10:00am

We could really use some help BEFORE leagues as it is supposed to rain in the afternoon.

We need people to haul and spread wood chips on the wooded holes. This is our primary job. The Waukegan Park District dumped plenty of chips today and may deliver even more.

We also need garbage pickup (especially around the creek on Hole 9) and fairways lined with logs and branches.

I will provide garbage bags, rakes, a shovel, and hopefully, a wheelbarrow. It would be great if anyone can bring another wheelbarrow.

Today, Scott Klatt and I cleaned up the monster scrub tree tangles between Basket 6 and Tee 7 as well as the one on Basket 9. Also cleaned up some brush on Hole 7.

THANK YOU if you can make it out!

05/20/2020

Work Day at Bevier Park
This Saturday, May 23
8:30am-3pm

Garbage pickup
W**d trimming
Fairway cleanup
Hopefully chip spreading as well!

I’ll bring some water, rakes and my loppers.
The Park District told me today that if the ground is dry enough on Friday, they will deliver loads of chips on Holes 7 and 10!

Please get out before leagues if you can.
Thank you!

Jim

05/17/2020

HPC DGC at Bevier Park is playing well!
Keep an eye out for a work day soon!

09/16/2019

Disc golfers:
Bevier: the bridge on Hole 9 has been washed out. Please be safe and do not attempt to repair it. The Park District will get to it soon.

07/22/2018

07/22/2018

Mark your calendars:
First Annual EAGER BEAVER
Unsanctioned BYOP Doubles Tournament

Sunday, August 12th - Henry Pfau Callahan DGC at the newly redesigned Bevier Park in Waukegan, IL.
Check-In: 7:30-9:00
Tee-Off: 9:30
$20/team
Payout to top 1/3 - cash
44 player max
3 rounds of 12 holes
Round 1: Best shot
Round 2: Alternate Shot
Round 3: Best Shot

Come play the newly re-designed course at Bevier.
Set the course record!
This will be an old-school dubs event. Not PDGA sanctioned.
Bring your own partner. One division.
No extra fees. Straight-up cash. Couple of CTPs.

Sign up with Jim Klem in person or register here:

Disc Golf Scene

07/22/2018

ALL 12 HOLES ARE NOW PLAYABLE AT BEVIER!

Ryan Farias and I completed the teepad for new Hole 8.
Wood-framed rubber mat with a drainage system to minimize flooding. Plays great and has two permanent basket placements.

Holes 1-5 are the same (we will be re-installing a long teepad on Hole 1 soon).
Hole 6 now has two permanent basket placements, one slight left, one slight right and shorter.
Hole 7 is a tight shot to the right.
Hole 8 now has two permanent basket placements, one slight left, one extreme right and shorter.
Hole 9 (creek hole) has been pruned, the bridge has been repaired, and it plays great.
Hole 10 still needs a permanent teepad and still needs the second basket placement installed. We will also be moving the primary basket about 100' back soon. But it is playable now and has two crazy routes.
Hole 11 is out on the old soccer fields. Double-mando between the two rows of newly-planted trees.
Hole 12 starts near the ball diamond and plays longer than it looks.

The rest of the remaining work will be done in the new few weeks. Should be done for the Unsanctioned Doubles Tourney I plan to run there on Sunday, August 15th. More info to come.

Bevier is truly a players' course. Designed (and re-designed and redesigned and redesigned again over the years) by players, and worked on by local players. THANKS to everyone who helped, especially Rob Obenauf and Ryan Farias.

05/27/2018

Hole 10 will have an elevated basket!
Rob, Ryan, and myself spent yesterday cutting up fallen trees out in McHenry for the new design.
This will become the new signature hole for the course!
We will need help installing these at a work day in two weeks (TBA).

05/08/2018

The redesign of Bevier Park will be finished by June 30th.

Currently, there are 10 playable holes, but signage is wrong and Hole 6-10 need teepad work.

By June 30th, there will be 12 holes.
Holes 1-5 will remain unchanged.
Holes 6-11 will be wooded, longer, and more challenging.
Hole 12 will play along Yorkhouse Road.

We are finalizing the remaining details with the Waukegan Park District this week and finishing up the work in the coming weeks.
Look for a Work Day notice.
Thanks to everyone who has been helping and thanks to everyone else for their patience.

We will probably hold a Grand Re-Opening around July 4th with an unsanctioned doubles tourney.

12/05/2017

BEVIER IS NOT DEAD.

Allow me to clarify some issues:

Last Summer, the Waukegan Park District asked me (Jim Klem) to redesign part of the Henry Pfau Callahan DGC at Bevier Park.

The six holes across the street are gone and the new Lake County Forest Preserve Bike Path eliminated five of the holes. With assistance from several local players, I designed a 12-hole course.

Ten of the holes are playable, although no signage has been made yet. The WPD does not want too much traffic on it until the grand re-opening and rededication in Spring. All signage will be installed as it is made by the WPD this Winter/Spring. I am designing a big new map at the course, previews of which I have posted on FB.

Sometime next year, we will also add the last two holes, going around the ball diamond. 65 trees are to be planted on the old soccer field, which we will be able to use in our final design.

Several of us (Rob, Ryan, Seth, and a few others) have been putting in long hours the past few months, creating long wooded holes - something new for Bevier. The WPD has been very accommodating and communicative. The unfortunate removal of the holes across the street was a political thing and I don't think the LCFP gave the WPD much say-so in the matter.

The vandalism has been there for months. The WPD says they will clean what they can in the Spring. Ten baskets are in the ground and the temporary layout is playable (and fairly easy to follow the flow w/o signage). I am also working on getting some basket upgrades over the next 3 years.

Thank you for your patience. Although the Henry Pfau Callahan DGC at Bevier Park has seen better days, better days are yet to come. Look for an unsanctioned event in early Spring, along with a Grand re-Opening.

09/14/2017

Basket for Hole 8 has been moved!
Thank you, RobO and Seth The Local!

09/10/2017

Unofficial map of the redesign.

Holes 1 - 5 remain unchanged.

Hole 6 now goes south into the woods. Long, slow righty hyzer.
This hole will have three pin placements by Spring 2018! Approximately 320'.

Hole 7 is now a short lefty hole, but still a challenging deuce. Approximately 220'.

Hole 8 now goes straight east to a new basket placement. Approximately 320'.

Hole 9 (Creek Hole) will remain unchanged.

Hole 10 will have a new tee and two basket placements. Basket "A" will be a righty hyzer to a basket by the creek; Basket "B" will be straight to an elevated basket near former Hole 20's teebox.

Plans for Holes 11 & 12 are not yet finalized but will probably go around the back of the ball diamond and along Yorkhouse Road.

We also got approval for a putting basket/green, but placement has not been finalized.