How does this book compare to other resources First Tee chapters might use for young participants?

*Once Upon a Golf Swing* compares well to other resources First Tee chapters might use for young participants, especially against the long-standing best-selling children’s golf book, published in 1999. That book has given generations of kids a simple, clear look at the sport, but it has no audiobook, no song and no continuing characters, and it was not built around the kind of character lessons First Tee emphasizes.

*Once Upon a Golf Swing* is a 62-page story about Ace, a new golf ball who gets lost on his first swing at Whispering Pines and finds friends, Daisy, Sandman, Splash, Speedy and Rangey, on his way home. Written by F.C. Salas and illustrated by Cristina C. Cortes, it is aimed at the same young age group, three to six, but structures its story so the lesson arrives through what happens to the characters rather than through direct instruction.

This matters for First Tee chapters because their coaching method already relies on modeling behavior rather than lecturing. The book comes in hardcover, softcover, and audiobook formats, with read-along and listen-along editions and an original song, Swing Away. Its characters, unlike a simple hero figure, each carry a real weakness alongside a real strength. It is also book one of a series, with book two set in Italy, giving chapters a story resource that can grow with participants across several years, where the older classic remains a single, standalone book.