Inside, beyond neat bins of rental clubs are long snack tables, soda machines and stacks of putting mats. He explains the center s mobile golf program. Nine instructors visit 22 local elementary schools to teach kids the game. And there are lessons, academies and summer camps at reasonable cost. If the youths show commitment, they get to play out back on the nine-hole course.
Adults can play, too.
But the focus is on children. But it s more. Down the street, world-famous courses in the valley s toniest communities lie behind fancy gates. Few, if any, welcome families who have never golfed or kids from underprivileged neighborhoods, says Blue. But at the corner of Cook and Sheryl in Palm Desert, a city that has grown younger and more diverse in the past decade, golf and kids seem a natural fit.