Nine holes stretched to a par 72 means you're playing everything twice with different tee boxes
Nine holes stretched to a par 72 means you're playing everything twice with different tee boxes. Union sits about an hour west of St. Louis, far enough that the crowds thin out and the pace stays honest. Municipal golf in Missouri often means cart-mandatory thinking, but Birch Creek lets you walk. The 82 walkability score suggests reasonable terrain between greens and tees. At nine holes, you can knock out a full round in the time it takes most courses to get you through the front. No frills, no pretense. Just golf the way it was meant to be played in small-town Missouri.
