Chicago students swing high learning life skills through golf

The goal is not to produce pros, just kids who grow up loving the game.

CHICAGO — Years from now, when some children grow up to be scratch golfers, they'll remember taking their first swings in a gym class.That's one hope for coaches who visited an elementary school on the South Side as First Tee Greater Chicago introduced kids to the game of golf.If it's gym class at Edgar Allen Poe Elementary, you'll have trouble keeping up with an 11-year-old like Kingston Muhammad.'Yeah, I play a lot of sports. I play baseball. I do martial arts.

It brings its coaches and clubs to schools where kids might not otherwise discover golf.'There's been a lot of underrepresentation in golf from certain communities, so I want to make sure we can access to golf to all kids in Chicago,' said Brandon White, Vice President of Programs and Operations with First Tee Greater Chicago.Some of these kids are swinging golf clubs for the first time, and if the program's success is any indication, it won't be the last.

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