First Tee – Greater Richmond

First Tee – Greater Richmond offers golf along with weekly instruction in golf skills and weekly instruction in life skills. The program also includes supplemental play, leagues, and tournaments for participants. Kids and teens take part in golf-based personal growth programs that include specific life and leadership skills.

• Ages: 5–18 years old

First Tee – Greater Richmond describes its mission as impacting the lives of young people by providing educational programs that build character, instill life-enhancing values, and promote healthy choices through the game of golf. It states that it introduces kids to the game and its inherent values through programs in elementary schools, on golf courses, and at youth centers around the country. The organization describes itself as “Building Game Changers” by empowering kids and teens to be the best version of themselves.

Coaches at First Tee – Greater Richmond are trained in First Tee teaching methods, which include inquiry-based instruction, open-ended questioning, and reflection. Participants are organized around five age groups with distinct developmental focuses: ages 7–9, 10–11, 12–13, and 14 and older. The program notes that participants enjoy low student-to-coach ratios and receive free practice balls, and it offers supplemental play, leagues, and tournaments.

First Tee – Greater Richmond is a chapter of First Tee, an initiative of the World Golf Foundation in partnership with the PGA TOUR, PGA of America, LPGA, USGA, and Augusta National Golf Club. It highlights opportunities connected to the broader First Tee network, including the First Tee College Scholarship Program, First Tee National Championship, First Tee Game Changers Academy Honoring Joe Louis Barrow, Jr., First Tee Leadership Summit, PURE Insurance Championship Impacting First Tee, First Tee Drive Your Future Academy, and First Tee Innovators Forum.

The organization states that it uses golf as the platform to strengthen the character of the community and teaches life lessons and leadership skills in a fun, group setting for youth ages 5–18 regardless of background or previous experience. It also notes that elementary students receive the First Tee School Program taught by their own physical education teachers trained by First Tee. First Tee – Greater Richmond reports relationships with Chesterfield County Public Schools, Richmond City Public Schools, Henrico County Public Schools, Hanover County Public Schools, and three independent schools, and states that at 127 schools, students in grades K through 5 receive instruction in the 5 key commitments and golf skills through this school program.

Last updated July 17, 2026.