Staff Spotlight:
Josh Burris
Position
Houseparent
Describe your role at BGGA?
My role at BGGA is to help implement life
skills that our students can take into their golf
careers as well as in their journey through life.
What’s your favorite part about your job?
My favorite part of the job is managing the
different relationships while helping to build
skills that will carry our students throughout
their lifetime. Also, learning the different
cultures and norms that our students bring
from their countries and how we seek to
compliment one with the other.
What’s the best piece of advice you have
ever received?
Only concern yourself with the controllables;
the attitude that I approach everything and
effort that I put in.
What is your favorite home-cooked meal?
It’s between seafood gumbo and red beans
and rice, fried chicken, and cornbread.
What is always stocked in your refrigerator?
Milk, for cereal and Oreos.
If you could live anywhere in the world,
where would it be and why?
Brazil has always been the place I tell everyone
where I want to settle when it’s all said and
done. The change of scenery, culture and
experiences are the biggest reasons for
wanting to make that move.
Is there anything you are addicted to? Or
can’t live without?
Brownie fudge sundae from Braum’s
What movie do you watch again and again?
The Wood
Where is your favorite place to travel and
why?
Costa Rica, my second family lives there
and they always make my stay memorable.
Also, the local people get a rush when I
speak Spanish and they want to engage
in communication, even with my broken
grammar.
What’s one thing we don’t know about you?
I am a big gamer, PS4 and IT geek.
Favorite quote?
“Iron sharpens Iron.” & “You don’t have to
be great to start but you have to start to be
great.”
Favorite sport besides golf?
Football