Greenfield Park

This is an average course. It is usually in decent condition and easy to get tee times. It is a beginner to intermediate level course. It is a nice course with easy access from the suburbs. I golf here 2 or 3 times a year.

Back in the 1980’s this was an amazing park, one that I visited almost daily, seeing I grew up two blocks away from it.
Greenfield park used to have a nice swimming pool park, one with a 20ft deep diving well and four diving boards and a awesome big pool. Yes, the pool was upgraded, but nothing like it used to be.
Downstairs in the main building, tickets were sold for 50 cents and they sold ice creams and other treats. Yes, times have changed, but now this building is just kept empty. I visit the park every summer.
The main pond was once the center of attention. Paddle boats were once rented out here and the pond always had dozens of people fishing in it at any given time. Now, I never see any activities taken place at the pond during my visits. The pond used to be thoroughly maintained by the park employees and they used to remove all the floating debris with special boats and machines, all of this has seemed to stop.
When I visit this park it’s quite depressing to see, because I remember how great this park was as a little boy. This place totally sucks now if your coming here as an six year old up till an adult. If you are younger, you’ll just use the playground, so it’s okay.
Back behind the main pool area and past the main building is a trail that leads to two small ponds. There used to be huge gold fish in those ponds, some as much as 15 – 20 pounds. I no longer see them. The smaller pond on the left used to be filled through a ground spring, which flowed down the rock bedding and filled those ponds. Now that underground spring is blocked. It was there for hundreds, if not, thousands of years, what happened?
I once drank from it and my golly, gee, it was good, clean and ohhh so refreshing. About 100 feet away was a swing set with 4 swings and some bars to do exercises. Those were removed.
If you grew up in the area and came here in the 80’s and early 90’s you know that this park is nothing like it used to be. I’m sure it was probably even better in the 60’s and 70’s.
These days, kids can’t even feed the ducks bread. It’s illegal to do so. Times have changed, some for the better and some not.

I was here for a company picnic on Sunday. It was very clean and there is a lot of shade. I would feel very comfortable bringing kids here.

I hate to be tough on this park, since I enjoy and appreciate our park system on a regular basis, but I’m not crazy about this one. I like to take the baby on walks on the Oak Leaf Trail, but this isn’t the best part. The wooded areas areas on the trail are bordered by unsightly warehouses, and the signage is horrible, I ended up losing the trail, not being able to find a sign and then traveling down Rodgers avenue, which isn’t my idea of a peaceful walk.

We took our lunch and had a picinic in the park with the pups. Today was pretty busy, lots of groups grilling out in the picnic areas. But there are lots of picnic tables and plenty of trees providing shade that finding a good spot wasn’t an issue.
The entire park provides over 250 acres of space for golfing, hiking, picnicing, a playground, park & rec programs/​camps, public restrooms and the Cool Waters water park is located here as well.

**My golf course reviews are from my perspective as a below average beginner golfer. I swing a used set of clubs and average seven strokes on par four holes.**
Greenfield Park is an 18-​hole course that’s part of the Milwaukee County Parks system of public courses. It was founded in 1923.
DIFFICULTY: 16 par 4s/​2 par 3s — wide open fairways with only one water hazard — sand traps are minimal — greens are very slow — USGA Pace of Play 3:41
FORE!: It’s a beginners’ course that attracts just that. Be very alert to errant shots. There aren’t many tree lines to block these errant shots either. The bikers that ride the trail through this course are brave.
PERISCOPE: They’re not just for submarines. Hole number 15 has one to see if the players ahead of you are off the green as it’s only a 289 yard hole.
HOT!: I played on an 80+ degree day and the two water coolers on the course were empty. It was Memorial Day and the staff said the workers who refill them were off at noon so it’s understandable.
PLAY AGAIN?: No. For an extra ten dollars there are much better courses available in the Milwaukee area. New Berlin Hills is less than two miles away and a much better course for the money.