The First Tee Program

The First Tee Program teaches golf through the Life Skills Experience. Participants learn valuable lessons about the importance of maintaining a positive attitude, how to make decisions by thinking about the possible consequences and how to define and set goals from the golf course to everyday life. Participants learn about themselves and others through a range of experiences enhancing their golf skills as well as their fundamental values for life.

All participants receive The First Tee Yardage Book so their progress can be observed as they advance through The First Tee certification levels of PLAYer, PAR, BIRDIE, EAGLE, and ACE. Each stage introduces young people to different aspects of golf and life skills.

Our program starts with the first level of certification, PLAYer. We want everyone who completes this program to have acquired basic golf skills and to be able to demonstrate certain fundamental life skill concepts. It takes most juniors at least two sessions to become certified at each level, but some do it after one. Juniors are not required to go through certification to participate but we certainly encourage it.
Where: Lee Park Golf Course
Begins: Wednesdays, May 31 - July 12
Time:   Ages 7 – 9                    9:00 - 10:15 a.m.
            Ages 10 – 11                10:30 - 11:45 a.m.
Registration: https://firstteesouthdakota.org/
Fee: $75.00 per Person