First Tee – West Michigan Junior Golf Programs
118 Commerce Ave SW, #400, Grand Rapids, MI 49503
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First Tee – West Michigan Junior Golf Programs offers golf lessons that use the game of golf as the setting for its youth development approach. The program includes a junior coach program, where participants like Jack Seufert have taken First Tee classes and later helped coach kids and teach them the basics of golf. The program uses golf-based personal growth programs that integrate a life skills curriculum with the game of golf.
• Price: $500 cash for his entry
First Tee – West Michigan states that it is a youth development organization that enables kids to build the strength of character that empowers them through a lifetime of new challenges. The organization describes its programs as giving kids a safe place to grow with trained coaches who help them navigate challenges during golf lessons and off the course. It also states that, by integrating golf with a life skills curriculum, it creates active learning experiences that build inner strength, self-confidence, and resilience that kids can carry to everything they do.
According to First Tee – West Michigan, its golf-based personal growth programs are intended for kids to build life and leadership skills that empower them in areas such as school, friendships, and eventually careers. The organization reports that students involved with First Tee – West Michigan have increased confidence, improved grades, an awareness of the importance of healthy choices, and are gaining friends and mentors. In its lesson plans, the program teaches students the “Commitment to Being a Game Changer” and bases its approach on Five Key Commitments: Pursuing Goals, Growing through Challenge, Collaborating with Others, Building Positive Self-Identity, and Using Good Judgment.
The program highlights opportunities such as CoBank Peak Performance Academy and CoBank Peak Performers Academy, as well as participation in the First Tee Golf Marathon Fundraiser. In 2019, Jack and his brothers played more than 200 holes of golf in the First Tee Golf Marathon Fundraiser and raised more than $2,000 for students on scholarship. Jack also won an essay contest through The First Tee and Wells Fargo and received $500 cash for his entry.
In a Junior Coach Spotlight, Jack Seufert names Integrity as his favorite of the Nine Core Values, defining it as knowing the difference between right and wrong and doing the right thing even when no one is looking. He describes his favorite part of being a junior coach as helping to coach the kids and helping them learn the basics of golf, noting that he took First Tee classes when he was their age and now enjoys coaching kids the way he was coached. First Tee – West Michigan also shares a statement for participants: “I can change the game and change the world by simply being the best version of myself. I am a Game Changer.”
Last updated July 27, 2026.
• Price: $500 cash for his entry
First Tee – West Michigan states that it is a youth development organization that enables kids to build the strength of character that empowers them through a lifetime of new challenges. The organization describes its programs as giving kids a safe place to grow with trained coaches who help them navigate challenges during golf lessons and off the course. It also states that, by integrating golf with a life skills curriculum, it creates active learning experiences that build inner strength, self-confidence, and resilience that kids can carry to everything they do.
According to First Tee – West Michigan, its golf-based personal growth programs are intended for kids to build life and leadership skills that empower them in areas such as school, friendships, and eventually careers. The organization reports that students involved with First Tee – West Michigan have increased confidence, improved grades, an awareness of the importance of healthy choices, and are gaining friends and mentors. In its lesson plans, the program teaches students the “Commitment to Being a Game Changer” and bases its approach on Five Key Commitments: Pursuing Goals, Growing through Challenge, Collaborating with Others, Building Positive Self-Identity, and Using Good Judgment.
The program highlights opportunities such as CoBank Peak Performance Academy and CoBank Peak Performers Academy, as well as participation in the First Tee Golf Marathon Fundraiser. In 2019, Jack and his brothers played more than 200 holes of golf in the First Tee Golf Marathon Fundraiser and raised more than $2,000 for students on scholarship. Jack also won an essay contest through The First Tee and Wells Fargo and received $500 cash for his entry.
In a Junior Coach Spotlight, Jack Seufert names Integrity as his favorite of the Nine Core Values, defining it as knowing the difference between right and wrong and doing the right thing even when no one is looking. He describes his favorite part of being a junior coach as helping to coach the kids and helping them learn the basics of golf, noting that he took First Tee classes when he was their age and now enjoys coaching kids the way he was coached. First Tee – West Michigan also shares a statement for participants: “I can change the game and change the world by simply being the best version of myself. I am a Game Changer.”
Last updated July 27, 2026.
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