Golf in Jacksonville

Jacksonville is the seat of Morgan County in west-central Illinois, a city with a rich nineteenth-century history as a center of education and reform movements. Illinois College, founded in 1829, was deeply involved in the abolitionist movement, and the city maintains several antebellum-era institutions including a school for the deaf and the state's first institution for the blind. The downtown preserves commercial and civic architecture from Jacksonville's peak prosperity, and the city functions as the regional center for Morgan County's farming communities. Two golf facilities serve the Jacksonville area, north of the city and in adjacent South Jacksonville. The community's golf culture reflects the midwestern combination of practicality and recreation, where courses are built and maintained with community investment and the straightforward purpose of providing quality sport for working families.