https://pinhighpress.com/tags/streamsong/ Recent content in Streamsong on Pin High Press Hugo en-us Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/streamsong-resort-phosphate-mine-course-profile/ Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/streamsong-resort-phosphate-mine-course-profile/ <p>For most of the twentieth century, the land in the middle of Florida between Tampa and Orlando was worth something entirely unrelated to golf. Mining companies had been stripping phosphate out of the ground there since before the First World War, hauling away the mineral used in fertiliser and leaving behind vast, rolling spoil heaps that nobody had much use for once the digging stopped. Florida law has required those companies to reclaim mined land since the 1970s, usually by flattening it back into pasture or wetland. What happened on one particular sixteen-thousand-acre parcel owned by the Mosaic Company was something nobody had tried before. An executive walking the site looked at the sand dunes left by a century of excavation and saw, of all things, links golf.</p>