The First Tee – Massachusetts 2025 Auction is now live, offering golfers exclusive opportunities to play top-tier courses around Boston, along with premium experiences with the Boston Red Sox and Boston Celtics.
All proceeds will go to First Tee – Massachusetts, a youth development organization that enables kids and teens to build the strength of character that empowers them through a lifetime of new challenges. By seamlessly integrating the game of golf with a life skills curriculum, First Tee creates active learning experiences that build inner strength, self-confidence, and resilience that kids can carry with them to everything they do.
Highlights of the auction include a rare unaccompanied foursome at The Country Club in 2026, lunch at the childhood home of Francis Ouimet prior to your afternoon tee time, and post-round beverages on the Locker Room Terrace. This historic championship venue has hosted four U.S. Open Championships, stretching from Francis Ouimet’s historic victory in 1913 to Matt Fitzpatrick’s win in 2022.
In addition to a foursome at Old Sandwich Golf Club and a threesome at Woodland Golf Club, the auction also includes two spots to play alongside past U.S. Mid-Amateur and U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur champions Matt Parziale and Shannon Johnson at their home course of Thorny Lea Golf Club in Brockton.
Don’t miss this opportunity to visit the auction page to register, place your bids, and support youth development through golf. Bidding ends Monday, November 3, at 6:30 p.m. Click the following link to get started: First Tee – Massachusetts 2025 Auction.
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In 2003, Mass Golf was selected by First Tee to join its national network with the goal of bringing an affordable junior golf program to youth and communities that did not have them.
Since that time, Mass Golf has introduced 11 program locations: Cyprian Keyes Golf Club (Boylston), D.W. Field Golf Course (Brockton), William J. Devine GC at Franklin Park (Boston), Hyannis Golf Course (Cape Cod), Cranberry Valley Golf Course (Harwich), Fenway Golf Center (Springfield), KOHR Golf (Natick), Sagamore Spring Golf Club (Lynnfield), The Links at Mass Golf (Norton), The Ranch Golf Club (Southwick), and The Reggie Lewis Center (West Roxbury).
As part of the curriculum, the children progress through a series of golf lessons where they are introduced to the different aspects of a golf course including the green, tee, fairway, rough, bunkers, and water hazards. The participants are also introduced to the basic elements of the game of golf and the swing including distance and accuracy control, course management, how to score, pace of play, honor, and proper, grip, stance, and posture. As participants grow and improve their golf skills, they will meet new challenges and potentially earn opportunities to play and compete on the local or national level.
In addition to golf, the participants are introduced to the First Tee Program, which is the curriculum of age-appropriate life skills that are interwoven into our golf lessons. Participants develop resilience, grit, and integrity as they experience lessons that fall into one of our five Key Commitment categories, which include Pursuing Goals, Growing through Challenge, Collaborating with Others, Building Positive Self Identity, and Using Good Judgment.
