Mike Rayman, CGCS

Consistent results come from talent and purpose. We continue to hold the spot as the No. 1 school in individual top-5 finishes at the NCAA Championship since 2010.

Listen to @Shauna_Green! Let’s make a memory in @StateFarmCenter tomorrow, on the court and in the stands! Gather your friends and family and experience the excitement of @IlliniWBB! Let’s sell it out! #OneWay #ILL 🔶🔷🏀

This is a B1G challenge for you Illini nation but I truly believe this community can rally together & get this done!! Please come and bring as many people as you can! Feb. 8th at noon we WILL sell out SFC!! Let’s do this👊🏼🔷🔶 We really need the #famILLy to show up!! # OneWay

Gibson City represented on Dad's Day. #Illini

2025 Byron Nelson Award Winner Annually awarded to the outstanding graduating senior in Division I, II, III, or NAIA. Jackson Buchanan is recognized for his achievement in the classroom, on the course, and in the community, embodying what it means to be a scholar-athlete.

Illinois closes out the regular season with a team title at the Boilermaker Spring Classic! 🏆

Consistency year in and year out. In our last 17 full seasons, we have won multiple tournaments

A huge day on the course for the Illini as they post the second-lowest team round score in program history at 13-under to finish The Chevron Collegiate in sixth! Anna Ritter led the charge with a career-low 5-under! Victoria Zheng also records a team-best tied-for-12th finish!

Built at a cost of more than $10,000,000 and based on the practice area at Augusta National, the University of Illinois is home to one of the best practice facilities in the world. 🙌 Take the full On Campus tour: glfdig.st/lns650UI57v

@dbv154 @GolfDigest @IlliniMGolf @IlliniWGolf Nope

@GolfDigest @IlliniMGolf @IlliniWGolf Taxpayer money? If so ridiculous!

University of Illinois - 24-acre practice area - Based on Augusta’s practice range - 6 heated indoor hitting bays - 15,000 sqft indoor facility - 7,000 sqft indoor green - TV Lounge - Club workshop FYI, it's only available to players on the men's and women's golf teams. 🔥

@incolnlay 👏

Many people hold the belief that trees make a course more difficult, in order to protect par, and a 6,500 yard course like Kankakee would be a pitch and putt without its trees. All that trees do is hurt the strategic interest for the average player, and instead of interacting with a feature that could offer creative options for a multitude of shots, the only option is a punch-out. Not very fun, and it doesn’t require as much thought or creative shotmaking. I would also like to mention that even with the trees, given modern equipment and technique, many longer amateurs will render KE a pitch and putt. That being said, most players aren’t that long, and do we really want to ruin the strategic interest of the whole course to try to make it more difficult for a small portion of players? Some examples: Picture 1 is from hole 8, barely off the right side. Picture 2 is hole 6, where trees on the right block out most of some fun features. Pictures 3 & 4 are credited to @LangfordMoreau, and show trees covering up more features you’d otherwise interact with off the tee or on approach. These are just a few examples of many. Lastly, my personal ranking of holes. This was just a fun, light-hearted exercise.

Kankakee Elks Summary - hopefully this isn’t too controversial. I think the Kankakee Elks has the best set of green complexes of any public course in Illinois, and with some tree removal and a few small tweaks, this course would be easily top 3 public golf courses in the state, and would probably be my personal #1 public in IL. It’s that good. Its flaws lie primarily from tee to green, where many features are covered or blocked completely by trees. There’s plenty of interesting land, and I’ve seen comments that the weakness of the course is lack of interest off the tee, but I contend that whether lost bunkers, trees blocking angles into greens, or shrunken fairways, that interest is just temporarily out of order. The real story here is that KE is a poster child for tree removal. When holes are still this good even lacking many fairway features or access to the line of charm, you know the potential is extremely high. On to difficulty…

@CdogrunTo @GolfDigest @IlliniMGolf @IlliniWGolf Yes

@GolfDigest @IlliniMGolf @IlliniWGolf Does it pay for itself? 🤔🧐

For everyone who thought we weren’t good enough, you were wrong.

@incolnlay You going to leave us hanging until next year for the rest of the back 9?!

The Back Nine at Kankakee Elks! Let’s go! I was heading into hole 10, a 417 yard par 4 feeling pretty good. Then the tee shot happened 😂 This hole is pretty straight forward off the tee, but I took a screen grab of the current state of it - trees, trees, and more trees! It follows the bend of the Kankakee River and the driveway in, but you could play here for years and never realize there’s a river there. Also, look how those trees at the kink in the fairway have crowded in on the right. So, I went left! Way left! Sadly, not on purpose. I’m guessing there used to be a bunker on the left at that kink in the fairway, but it’s now just a grass swale. So now, it’s just an extremely narrow fairway at that spot. The green contains the most interest on the hole, but it’s not the best on the course. There’s a strong back to front slope across the entire green, and you can see a sort-of skyline effect of the movement on the back of the green. It’s far from the most memorable hole, but a solid mid length par 4 with some real potential. After the hook, I hit a high sand wedge just left of the pin, gave it a little too much pace, and skimmed the edge. -4 thru 10.

Taking advantage of the opportunity. Jackson Buchanan ranks No. 6 in @PGATOURU after our fall season. #Illini // #HTTO

Collegiate Win No. 4! 🏆🏆🏆🏆 After an opening 75 (+3) in Round 1, senior Jackson Buchanan closed the Fallen Oak Collegiate Invitational by carding 68 (-4) and 66 (-6) - with 11 birdies and just one bogey over his final 36 holes - to secure the victory at 209 (-7).

This intro to Illinois/Michigan is one of the most bad ass sports television things I’ve ever seen. The aesthetic matches the game and #Illini uniforms perfectly. Having the broadcaster dress the part completes it!

An iconic part of football history. Individually hand-painted, each player will wear a custom helmet to match our throwback uniforms to the importance Red Grange played in football history. #Illini // #HTTO // #famILLy

What a way to start the day. #Illini // #HTTO