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20 Posts for 20 Years Series – Post #12 53 participants. 17 years. 11 National Opportunities. Over the past 20 years we have sent 53 different participants to 11 different National Opportunities. If you do the math, we’re averaging 3.1 participants a year attending National Opportunities. Th...

20 Posts for 20 Years Series – Post #11 Imagine a world where the great minds of surrounding The First Tee chapters came together and formed a mini-tour series so that their participants could gain tournament experience in a fun, safe and entry-fee environment. Well, that happened in 2009 with...

20 Posts for 20 Years Series – Post #10 Scholarships have been a tremendous part of our culture as a chapter over the last twenty years. Since 2015 alone, we have been fortunate enough to provide over $130,000 to numerous participants attending college. Our two main sources of scholarship mone...

20 Posts for 20 Years Series – Post #9 454,955. The First Tee National School Program (NSP) is the delivery channel of our program that reaches the largest number of children in the Greater Washington, DC area. NSP is a program that is delivered in elementary school Physical Education classes....

20 Posts for 20 Years Series – Post #8 Alumni. The successes of our program. The reason we continue to pursue our mission each and every day. Our alumni have progressed through the program from the PLAYer Level through the Eagle/Ace Levels. They have shown the dedication it takes to succeed at...

20 Posts for 20 Years Series – Post #7 Over the years we have seen the incredible efforts of incredible Board Members. 20 years later and we are still graced by the presence of two original Board Members: Chairman Emeritus, Jack Vardaman and Dan Tate. We simply could not put into words how muc...

20 Posts for 20 Years Series – Post #6 Partnerships. The Merriam-Webster Thesaurus tells us the synonyms related to the word partnership are alliance, collaboration, connection, cooperation, relationship. We believe one very important word is missing: friendship. Over the last 20 years we have...

20 Posts for 20 Years Series – Post #5 Over the last two decades we have fostered incredible relationships with the Private Member Clubs of the area. Whether they were hosting our donors for a fundraiser or our kids for a Play Day, these clubs have done a tremendous job of supporting us and th...

20 Posts for 20 Years Series – Post #4 Northern Virginia. Now, just one of four territories in the service area of The First Tee of Greater Washington, DC. In 2014, it was the reason we graduated from Washington, DC to Greater Washington, DC. We began the expansion into Northern Virginia with ...

20 Posts for 20 Years Series – Post #3 90. A simple enough number. 10 less than 100. Not prime, but that’s okay. You can divide it by 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9 and 10 evenly. 90. Also the number of total participants registered for programming at The First Tee of Washington, DC in …...