The First Tee of Greater St. Louis

First Tee - Greater St. Louis is a youth development organization that enables kids to build the strength of character that empowers them through a lifetime of new challenges.

By seamlessly integrating the game of golf with a life skills curriculum, we create active learning experiences that build inner strength, self-confidence, and resilience that kids can carry to everything they do.

Intro to First Tee:
At First Tee, we guide kids and teens to show up stronger in everything they set out to do.

• For kids, we are a mentor who helps them write their personal growth story.
• For their parents, we partner to facilitate the personal growth of their kids.
• And for donors, we are a collaborator on an important mission.

Our work at First Tee is not about improving your golf score... it's about strengthening what you bring to everything you do, including golf.

Character is what you bring to everything you do. It's what signifies to the world what's inside of you. It outlasts genius and talent yet propels both.

It's what we are admired for and remembered by. It's what transforms piercing words to inspire you forward rather than tear you down. And it's what allows you to walk away from failure determined, not defeated.

But we aren't born with it. Character is learned, cultivated
and shaped by our experiences. In a world where social pressures
are always on, where calm and confidence are hard to access, and where perseverance is a required superpower every day, our kids are growing in new environments that are demanding more from them, and therefore more from us.

We build experiences that build character to empower kids through a lifetime of new challenges and continuous personal growth.