Joy Grant says people interested in volunteering for the First Tee of the Coachella Valley need only a few basic qualifications.

“It’s really just that they have a heart for kids,” Grant said. “And a little bit of golf knowledge. They don’t have to be great golfers.”

Grant supervises the volunteers for the desert’s First Tee program, a junior golf program that teaches golf but also life skills through its message of the nine core values that golf can teach kids, values that they can carry into the rest of their life. Those values are honesty, integrity, sportsmanship, respect, confidence, responsibility, perseverance, courtesy and judgment.

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