Golf in Sewanee

Sewanee is the home of the University of the South, an Episcopal liberal arts institution set on the Cumberland Plateau in Franklin County at 2,000 feet elevation, in one of the most distinctive academic settings in America. The university's Domain encompasses 13,000 acres of the plateau's forested landscape, including portions of the Fiery Gizzard Trail corridor and the dramatic bluff lines where the plateau drops to the Elk River valley. The university's Gothic sandstone architecture, the academic culture of the blue-blazed trails through the surrounding forest, and the elevation that brings a cool, foggy character to summer mornings all contribute to Sewanee's identity as a place apart. Golf at this elevation on the Cumberland Plateau occupies a setting that is emphatically not lowland Tennessee, with the plateau's distinct climate and the surrounding forest making it one of the more unusual golf environments in the state.