Union County Country Club

About Union County Country Club:

The 18-hole "Union County" course at the Union County Country Club facility in Anna, Illinois features 6,613 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 71 . The course rating is 71.4 and it has a slope rating of 132. Designed by Gary Kern, ASGCA, the Union County golf course opened in 1954.

The Union County Country Club (UCCC) was launched with a 9-hole course having sand "greens". The golfer would hit to the "green", measure the distance to the hole and then move the ball to a packed strip equal distance from the hole for the putt. It didn't take many years for the members to realize that they had to have grass greens if the club was to survive. Through fund raisers (raffles, etc.), money was raised to replace the sand "greens" with grass.