First Tee offers golf facilities, coaching and classes to Northeast Wisconsin’s youth. One aspiring Division 1 prospect, Emma Cunningham, is an example of the organization’s growth.
- The organization said it has grown from serving 100 children to more than 1,000 each summer
- Cunningham, a freshman at Green Bay Southwest High who competes for Preble High, has gone through the First Tee program from novice to coach
- First Tee is participating in the 8th annual Give BIG Green Bay day of giving, which runs Feb. 21-22
(The following is a transcription of the full broadcast story)
We’re at Mid Vallee Golf Course, where community support has helped the First Tee of Northeast Wisconsin build this indoor putting green — and much more.
Emma Cunningham started with First Tee when she was four years old.
“It made it fun, because golf is really hard to make it fun as a kid,” Cunningham said.
Now she’s 14, and has blossomed from novice to Division 1 prospect.
“I really want to get a scholarship to one of my dream colleges,” Cunningham said.