First Tee – Greater Chicago

First Tee – Greater Chicago offers youth golf experiences that use the game of golf as the main activity. The program runs junior golf programs that focus on golf-based personal growth for kids and teens.

First Tee – Greater Chicago is a youth development organization that integrates the game of golf with a life skills curriculum. The organization states that it creates active learning experiences that build inner strength, self-confidence, and resilience that kids can carry to everything they do. It describes its approach as empowering kids and teens through the game of golf and building game changers through junior golf programs. Through its golf-based personal growth programs, it states that kids build life and leadership skills that they can use in school, friendships, and eventually careers. First Tee – Greater Chicago is featured on the Wintrust Mural on the Kennedy Expressway.

Last updated August 3, 2026.