Goldenite Corner: High school senior receives scholarship for caddying

from Golden Transcript 031623

by Colorado Community Media

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BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

After hundreds of hours on the golf course and in the classroom, Keileigh Gorman’s hard work has paid o .

e Golden resident and Lakewood High School senior was awarded the Western Golf Association’s Chick Evans Scholarship for golf caddies, paying for her tuition and housing at the University of Colorado-Boulder for four years.

She was one of 14 Colorado recipients, and one of 325 across the country.

Gorman caddies at e Club at Rolling Hills, located at 15707 W. 26th Ave., and said the scholarship was a major honor. She hoped more high school students would take up caddying and apply for the scholarship too.

“For all the hardships my family and I faced through my parents’ divorce and my dad’s death, the Chick Evans Scholarship has given me the opportunity to go to college without the nancial burden,” Gorman said. “ ... Receiving this scholarship was my special ‘I made it’ moment, and I could not be more grateful for it.”

Bill Fowler, Rolling Hills’ club director, noted how each recipient must have an excellent academic record, nancial need and outstand- ing character. ey must also have a strong caddie record, with Fowler saying that 75 loops or rounds is considered the minimum. A loop or round is 18 holes.

Gorman started caddying in summer 2020, after her brother received the same scholarship for caddying at Fowler said the club’s had six or seven Evans Scholars, with Gorman and her brother being the two most

So far, Gorman has caddied 90 loops or rounds, and wants to reach her goal of 160 this summer before she heads to CU.

Caddying has been a great summertime job, she described, saying she gets to be outdoors and mostly sets her own schedule. e biggest bene t, though, has been meeting the golfers. Gorman said she’s learned a lot from them over the years, about golf, business and life in

“It’s great to caddy,” she said.

“You’re constantly learning.”

Fowler explained that, in addition to teaching them about golf and how to be better caddies, he hoped golfers also piqued the caddies’ interest about business and what they might want to do after high school.

Gorman’s undecided about her

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