Golf in Mount Pleasant

Mount Pleasant is a small Maury County city in the phosphate-mining country south of Columbia, in an area where the extraction of phosphate deposits shaped the local economy for much of the 20th century. The phosphate country's particular geology — Ordovician limestone with unusual mineral concentrations — gives the landscape around Mount Pleasant a geological distinctiveness belied by the quiet rural surface. Maury County's horse-country character is more pronounced to the north around Columbia, but the Mount Pleasant area retains a working agricultural identity. Golf in this small community serves a modest local population in the context of south-central Tennessee's rural character.