It's so great to hear from these young people and their journey to becoming caring, productive adults. I've never heard of The First Tee program but it supports and mentors our young people as they figure out who they want to be as a responsible adult so it has my support. Wouldn't it be great if every kid had this in their life?
There are 150 First Tee chapters across the country. They all do great work and have extraordinary young people as participants so hope you support one in your community. Thanks!
These are lovely testimonies. I love golf but as a woman have been called names being blamed for slowing down some old fat man behind me who was actually playing alongside a female. Really!
I lived in Augusta, or Disgusta, not too long ago. One, you have to inherit tickets to see the tournament or enter a lottery to get a ticket for a random round during the Master’s.
The natives rent out their homes and make tens of thousands of dollars (a whole year’s worth of mortgage payments). They all leave town, the golfers and tourists invade the town. Churches don’t even have services because they know no one will be in the pews. I guess god goes to the Master’s too.
Condie Rice and the female Hewlett Packard CEO were the first women to get memberships to the course - typical Disgusta, get your token women and token black.
One year I was flying into the sleepy little regional airport during the Master’s and looked out the window as we landed. There were tens if not hundreds of little jets parked in every square inch of tarmac.
One year it was very warm very early in the season. The groundskeepers ice down the azalea bushes to delay the azalea blooms. It is a beautiful site but as a woman with no legacy tickets, no Secretary of State friends, no HP CEO friends, no member acquaintances, I have only driven by and have never been allowed on the course.
But, I have two towels - one from the 1960’s that I inherited from dad and one from 2012 that legacy ticket holders bought me for letting them stay in my house while they attended the tournament (I was working and if I weren’t, I expect I would have gotten my day on the course). By then, the whole woman thing was so repulsive to me that I don’t even watch it on tv anymore.
It's so great to hear from these young people and their journey to becoming caring, productive adults. I've never heard of The First Tee program but it supports and mentors our young people as they figure out who they want to be as a responsible adult so it has my support. Wouldn't it be great if every kid had this in their life?
There are 150 First Tee chapters across the country. They all do great work and have extraordinary young people as participants so hope you support one in your community. Thanks!
So enjoyed reading about the path of these two young leaders and how sports and First Tee was a pivotal part of their lives.
Great story and great outcomes!
These are lovely testimonies. I love golf but as a woman have been called names being blamed for slowing down some old fat man behind me who was actually playing alongside a female. Really!
I lived in Augusta, or Disgusta, not too long ago. One, you have to inherit tickets to see the tournament or enter a lottery to get a ticket for a random round during the Master’s.
The natives rent out their homes and make tens of thousands of dollars (a whole year’s worth of mortgage payments). They all leave town, the golfers and tourists invade the town. Churches don’t even have services because they know no one will be in the pews. I guess god goes to the Master’s too.
Condie Rice and the female Hewlett Packard CEO were the first women to get memberships to the course - typical Disgusta, get your token women and token black.
One year I was flying into the sleepy little regional airport during the Master’s and looked out the window as we landed. There were tens if not hundreds of little jets parked in every square inch of tarmac.
One year it was very warm very early in the season. The groundskeepers ice down the azalea bushes to delay the azalea blooms. It is a beautiful site but as a woman with no legacy tickets, no Secretary of State friends, no HP CEO friends, no member acquaintances, I have only driven by and have never been allowed on the course.
But, I have two towels - one from the 1960’s that I inherited from dad and one from 2012 that legacy ticket holders bought me for letting them stay in my house while they attended the tournament (I was working and if I weren’t, I expect I would have gotten my day on the course). By then, the whole woman thing was so repulsive to me that I don’t even watch it on tv anymore.