Knoxville’s Smokies stadium district is about to get a new way to spend an evening that doesn’t require keeping score: ParTee Golf, an indoor golf-and-bar venue, is slated to open in September at Covenant Health Park. The concept pairs simulator swings with drinks, food and a putting green, giving the ballpark neighborhood another hangout for people who came for the game — or didn’t.
According to Knoxville News Sentinel, founders Brennan Hunt and Adam Cushman plan to open ParTee at the base of the Beauford Delaney Building, next to BerrySocial. Visitors won’t need baseball or soccer tickets to enter, and the venue is expected to welcome walk-ins while also taking hourly reservations for simulator bays.
The setup is built around three TrackMan golf simulators, which use radar and camera technology to make indoor play feel less like an arcade compromise and more like a real round with the weather removed. The Sentinel reports that the bar will also have a putting green, eight TVs, eight taps, cocktails and food focused on the familiar bar-and-bites side of golf; Cushman’s pitch is deliberately broad: “Anybody can come here and play.”
ParTee Is Betting On Knoxville’s Stadium Traffic
The owners are betting that stadium-district traffic can do what a typical simulator business cannot: keep the room busy when golf season, or the weather, turns sideways. That fits the broader vision for Covenant Health Park, which the City of Knoxville has described as a year-round community gathering place rather than a venue that wakes up only when the gates open.
ParTee will join a district still filling in around the ballpark with restaurants, breweries and other entertainment businesses. The Beauford Delaney Building itself is designed as a nine-story mixed-use project with retail and restaurant space on its lower floors, according to Denark Construction, making the new bar part of a larger attempt to turn the stadium edge into a neighborhood instead of a parking lot with a scoreboard.
Whether it becomes a game-day overflow room or a standalone nightlife stop, the idea is clear: You won’t need a ticket, a handicap or even a particularly reliable swing to get in. Knoxville’s newest stadium district is making room for the kind of business where the main event can be baseball, soccer or simply trying not to shank one into the bar.
