Tennessee Turfgrass Association member Justin Browning is the Golf Course Superintendent at The Course at Sewanee. A Member Spotlight on Justin is featured in the August / September 2023 issue of Tennessee Turfgrass magazine.

When asked about coming into a new position during peak Covid times, Justin says:

“Here it was very different. This university makes the students stay on campus, so they pretty much created their own student bubble. The students were not allowed to leave the domain, they had places set up for positive cases and the course was pretty much private to alumni and students, so they did not pop that bubble until the following May. It was easy to get around and get things done, but it was also quite a different experience than even in the Nashville area or anywhere else.

When we opened back up, the way things move around here is a little bit slower, word doesn’t get around. This is kind of golf’s little secret place. Avid golfers know about it, but the guy that lives right down the road may not even know that this course is here. Maybe a month or two later, we really did start seeing the numbers increase. It was peak golf season, April / May / June.”

Read the full Member Spotlight on Justin Browning, in the August / September 2023 issue of Tennessee Turfgrass magazine.