They play their home matches at the Atkins Golf Club, which is located five miles from the university's campus.

The Fighting Illini men's golf program has won 20 Big Ten championships, including the last eight consecutively, and in 2013 finished as national runner-up at the NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships, which was the highest finish in the program's history.

Illinois golfers won the Big Ten Individual Conference Title for nine consecutive seasons (2011−2019).

[5] Opened in 2007, the university's $5.2 million, 14,150-square-foot Demirjian Indoor Golf Practice Facility features a 6,300-square-foot putting, chipping, and pitching area that includes sand bunkers and different strains of artificial grass, six heated hitting bays which open onto the range, team locker rooms, coaches offices and a team lounge.

[12] The university course was originally designed by noted golf course architect Dick Nugent and his son Tim in 1999.