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The First Tee of Silicon Valley partnered with Valdés Math and the Latinx team to deliver a golf introduction to pre-high school youth at Notre Dame High School in San Jose on February 22nd. Latinx Golf Founder and Executive Director, Alexia Gutierrez and Rosalie Gutierrez lead a year-long tutoring...

Meet Coach Alisa Yamanaka. She is a Software Engineer and an alumna of the University of Washington. Alisa joined our team as a volunteer coach in the Summer of 2019.  Since becoming a coach, she has made a positive impact on her participants and her fellow coaches. Her attention to detail, collabo...

The First Tee of Silicon Valley received a $5,000 grant from Wells Fargo to underwrite the cost of providing our DRIVE educational programs to 2 new Title I school located in the Alum Rock Union School District:  Dorsa Elementary and Hubbard Media Arts Academy. Denise Miles, Sr. VP of Community Rel...

Meet Dimarco Casillas, a freshman at Cupertino High School. We met Dimarco at a DRIVE outreach event in Fischer Middle School located in San Jose. He began our program soon after the outreach event in the Spring of 2019. After taking several certifying and skills advancement classes, he progressed t...

On January 30th, we hosted the first of several school field trips in 2020 at Rancho Del Pueblo Golf Course. Over the next month, schools that are delivering our DRIVE program will be visiting Rancho Del Pueblo Golf Course to take part in a typical First Tee of Silicon Valley class. San Antonio Elem...

The First Tee of Silicon Valley (TFTSV) had its highest performing year in 2019 as it reached 14,453 youth – 1,011 Class Participants and 13,442 Outreach Participants. Our youth development program has positively transformed the lives of 81,234 youth through proven on course and at-school programs...