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.