First Tee Receives $6,600 Grant from Wells Fargo

 

The First Tee of Pasadena received a $6,600 grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation to assist with expanding The First Tee’s “Mulligan Program” which addresses the needs of challenged students.   Mark Fritz, Program Director, said it best: “We would like to thank the Wells Fargo Foundation. This grant will assist The First Tee of Pasadena in addressing the needs of challenged students who would like to experience a ‘do-over’ in their lives by focusing their attention on the positive choices they can make in their own lives.  Through The First Tee’s ‘Mulligan Program,’ students will learn how to apply positive core values into their own lives.  These positive core values are classified as The First Tee Nine Core Values, which include honesty, integrity, responsibility, perseverance, respect, sportsmanship, courtesy, judgment, and confidence.”   

The First Tee of Pasadena has been impacting the lives of Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley youth by providing learning facilities and educational programs that promote character development and life enhancing values through the game of golf.  With facilities at Brookside, Altadena, Arroyo Seco and Glen Oaks (Glendora) golf courses, the First Tee of Pasadena has grown from an initial enrollment of 62 participants at Brookside Golf Course in 2006 to serving over 3,000 San Gabriel Valley youth in core and outreach programs. 

Through the life lessons taught through the game of golf, students learn ways to improve their own self-esteem, and develop strategies for making choices in their own lives. It is not just a sport but it is an opportunity to teach some very powerful life skills to youth. Ultimately, these lessons will be ones they carry with them for the rest of their lives.

For more information about The First Tee of Pasadena and its many programs, please visit www.thefirstteepasadena.org or call Mark Fritz at 626-543-4708.