Who We Are
First Tee - Delaware is a non-profit youth development organization that uses golf as the vehicle to teach life skills and character enhancing values to kids.
What We Do
We offer programs in over 60 schools on the Delmarva, dozens of community centers (like Boys & Girls Club) and over 20 golf courses. Regardless of the platform we seamlessly blend a life skill with a golf skill for each class. One example is First Tee's lesson about "Personal Par." Par is often considered to be 'average' or somesort of standard, but the reality is that it's a difficult standard to attain in golf. In life kids (and adults) are often held to unreasonable standards. You are told to look like someone in a magazine or get the same grades in school as your brother. First Tee teaches you to set your own personal par and then try to improve upon that. In golf that migh mean that you decide that, while the scorecard says this hole is a Par 4, it might be a pay 8 for you. If make a 7, you should be pleased. If you make a 9, then you need to try to do better the next time. The same philosophy can be applied to your grades in math, or the amount of time you spend practicing a musical instrument. Compare yourself to yourself and always keep trying to improve.
