Golf in Oakland

Oakland is a small Coles County village east of Mattoon in east-central Illinois, in the flat agricultural terrain between the Illinois communities and the Indiana state line. Norton Knolls Golf Course serves the area as the local recreational golf facility for Oakland and surrounding rural Coles County. Illinois' strong community tradition and the state's extensive park and recreation system create the context for golf clubs that serve as social anchors alongside the natural and civic amenities of community life. The surrounding community reflects the strong midwestern tradition of civic investment in recreational infrastructure that has sustained Illinois golf across a century of economic and social change.