Golf in Champaign

Champaign forms the commercial and entertainment core of the Champaign-Urbana metropolitan area, a Big Ten university city of approximately 90,000 anchored by the University of Illinois campus that straddles the Champaign-Urbana boundary. The city's character divides between the university's academic and athletic identity and a tech-adjacent economy that has grown around the campus. Champaign Country Club and Lincolnshire Fields Country Club serve the metro's private club golf market, with the latter integrated into an upscale west-side residential development that expanded significantly after 2000. The C-U market also benefits from the University of Illinois Golf Course in Savoy, Atkins Golf Club in Urbana, and several additional facilities within easy driving distance, giving the metro one of central Illinois' more complete golf landscapes despite its flat, unvaried terrain.