The Bear Trap Challenge is a fun, team fantasy league style activity/contest during
The Honda Classic tournament week that will correlate directly to the unique three-hole stretch (15,16 and 17) known as THE BEAR TRAP.
The objective is to team up with the player that ends up with the lowest cumulative score through The Bear Trap (holes 15,16,17) through all 4 rounds of the tournament (so your player MUST make the 36-hole cut to win).
The Bear Trap Challenge will be open to members of The Honda Classic Board of Directors, Ambassador Club members, and other select tournament sponsors and chapter supporters. We have a maximum potential for 144 total participants. To enter, each participant will make a $100 contribution to our chapter.
Players will be selected through a blind draw draft. The first participant’s name that we draw will receive the #1 player in the world (Jason Day), the second participant name drawn will receive the next highest ranked player in The Honda Classic field, and so on.
You can register by calling the chapter office at 561-602-9471 and making your $100 contribution to The First Tee of The Palm Beaches over the phone via credit card or by emailing
[email protected] with all credit card information.
The winner of The 2017 Bear Trap Challenge will get his/her name on The Bear Trap Challenge Trophy in perpetuity.
Every participant is automatically entered into a raffle to win one free twosome in next year’s 2018 The First Tee Monday After The Honda Classic Invitational.
Chapter students Wen Barto, Kameron Povio and Frances Melendez served as roving PGA TOUR Junior Course Reporters at The Honda Classic. The students received inside the ropes media credentials and shadowed reporters preparing articles and videos for media publications.
The students will complete an essay regarding their experience with the PGA TOUR players and the media experts for submittal to the TOUR’s website.
Pictured above: Kameron Povio with Sergia Garcia: Frances Melendez interviewing Emiliano Grillo and Wen Barto walking inside the ropes with Rickie Fowler’s group on Saturday. 
The First Tee home office and Trustee Jim Crane recently hosted a Trustee outing at Floridian National. The event brought together a small group of existing Trustees and new Trustee candidates. Chapter Director, Ken Ohrstrom, confirmed his acceptance of becoming our newest Trustee.
Chapter participant, Frances Melendez, was asked to attend the opening dinner and speak to the group about how our Life Skills program and the Chapter has helped her in school and life. Frances, who plays high school golf for Cardinal Newman, spoke about her many experiences since joining The First Tee, including her upcoming assignment as a Junior Course Reporter at The Honda Classic and her goal to play The First Tee Open at Pebble Beach. She had the opportunity to meet some of the most important leaders in the game of golf. (Pictured above left to right: Trustee Jim Crane, PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monohan, Frances Melendez, The First Tee CEO Joe Louis Barrow and new Trustee and Chapter Director Ken Ohrstrom.) 
As always, The Honda Classic features a stellar tournament field including defending champion Adam Scott, Sergio Garcia, and 2016 Olympic Gold Medalist Justin Rose.
February 20-26, PGA National Resort & Spa, The Champion Course
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Featuring PGA Tour Players Bryson DeChambeau, Emiliano Grillo and Golf Prodigy Tommy Morrissey
Tuesday February 21st, 4:00pm
PGA National Resort & Spa – PGA Boulevard entrance.
PLEASE DO NOT ARRIVE BEFORE 3:30PM
All arrivals before 3:30pm will be directed to the Mirasol parking lot.
Come join us for a fun afternoon at the Junior Golf Clinic, hosted by The First Tee of the Palm Beaches, featuring PGA Tour Professionals Bryson DeChambeau and Emiliano Grillo! Listen as the game’s best share insider tips and stories from their years of experience on the PGA TOUR.
The Honda Classic’s Birdies for Children program teams up our chapter with the PGA Tour event to raise dollars with a fun chance to win a new Honda automobile! Our chapter benefits from the proceeds, plus we receive a 10% matching contribution courtesy of The Honda Classic.
HOW TO DONATE AND GUESS THE BIRDIES?
Make a minimum donation of $20 or more to our chapter and then guess the total number of birdies that will be made by the entire field in all four rounds of the 2017 Honda Classic. 
The USGA, Masters Tournament and the PGA of America have officially launched the 2018 Drive, Chip and Putt Championship by announcing the local qualifying schedule for the program’s fifth year. The schedule includes dates and locations for participants to play in local qualifiers across the country with the opportunity to advance and earn an invitation to next year’s National Finals at Augusta National Golf Club. Online registration will be available starting Wednesday, January 25, 2017 at 