Golf in Cookeville

Cookeville is the seat of Putnam County and the largest city on the Cumberland Plateau, a designation that comes with both geographic distinction and civic pride. Tennessee Tech University anchors the city's economic and cultural life, bringing a university-town dimension that distinguishes Cookeville from the smaller plateau communities to its east and west. The plateau setting creates a climate slightly cooler and wetter than the Middle Tennessee basin to the south and west, and the surrounding terrain — hardwood forests, sandstone outcrops, and the meandering creeks that drain toward the Cane Creek and Falling Water watersheds — gives the city a distinctly Appalachian plateau character. Crossville holds the official 'Golf Capital of Tennessee' designation, but Cookeville's course count and its central position on the plateau make it a legitimate hub for Cumberland Plateau golf.