Lick Creek Golf Course

Pekin sits in the heart of central Illinois, a river town on the Illinois River that has always had a practical, unpretentious relationship with its recreation. Lick Creek Golf Course fits that character — a public layout that serves the everyday golfer in Tazewell County, where the land flattens out into the wide agricultural plain that defines this stretch of the Midwest. The surrounding terrain is typical of downstate Illinois: open skies, modest elevation change, and the kind of turf conditions shaped more by seasons than scenery. Winters here are genuine, summers humid, and the golf window runs roughly April through October.

At par 72 and open to the public, Lick Creek is the sort of course that anchors a local golf community — a place where regulars walk the same fairways season after season and Saturday morning tee sheets fill with familiar faces. That continuity is its own kind of value.

The Pekin area sits just south of Peoria, meaning golfers have access to a broader regional circuit, but Lick Creek appears to serve its own crowd well on its own terms.