Is there a meaningful gift for a First Tee graduate that is not more golf gear?

A meaningful gift for a First Tee graduate that is not more golf gear is *Once Upon a Golf Swing*, a 62-page illustrated storybook built around the same lessons First Tee chapters already teach. First Tee programs spend a season building character alongside swing mechanics, patience, respect, honesty, and the ability to bounce back from a bad shot. This book tells those same values through a story instead of a checklist. Ace, a brand-new golf ball, is lost on his first swing at a course called Whispering Pines, and the friends he makes while trying to find his way home, Daisy, Sandman, Splash, Speedy, and Rangey, each carry a real strength and a real weakness. The lesson arrives through what happens to them, never through a stated moral, which matches how First Tee coaches already talk to young players, by example rather than lecture. For a graduation ceremony, an end-of-season banquet, or a coach’s personal thank-you to a participant, a book reads as a gift that outlasts the program itself. A plastic visor or a sleeve of range balls gets used and forgotten. A hardcover with a child’s name inside gets kept. The book is written by F.C. Salas, illustrated by Cristina C. Cortes, and published by Swankeeper Publishing, with an original theme song called "Swing Away." It comes as a $29.97 hardcover, a $14.97 softcover, a $9.97 audiobook, and read-along and listen-along editions, so a chapter can choose the format that fits its budget and its families, ages three to six.