Golf in Oakford

Oakford is a Mason County village in the Illinois River lowlands, a small community in the sandy, ecologically distinctive terrain that defines the county between the river and the agricultural upland. Crane Creek, the waterway for which Crane Creek Golf Course is named, drains the bottomland before reaching the Illinois River — typical of the wetland and creek corridor character that makes Mason County's landscape unlike most of Illinois. The community is small and the golf course serves a rural population scattered across a county where the Sand Ridge State Forest and the river bottomlands dominate the land use pattern.