WAUWATOSA, Wis. – For some, being a caddie is a good summer time job. However for one Marquette Excessive College pupil, it turned out to be life-changing.
What we all know:
On a sun-soaked day at Blue Mound Golf & Nation Membership, Bobby Koehne is soaking all of it in.
“You get to get pleasure from nature and stroll exterior,” he stated.
This stroll consists of carrying Mike Malone’s golf bag.
“I feel he’s an exquisite younger man,” Malone stated.
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The 2 have identified one another for a lot of years, ever since Bobby turned a caddie on the membership.
“They perceive the state of affairs that caddies are in once they’re beginning out. They get that they’re nervous. So, they need to help the caddie program,” Koehne stated. “So, they’re very prepared to sort of be very mild and be sort of proactive in how they deal with their caddies.”
These relationships helped Bobby earn the prestigious Evans Scholarship from the Western Golf Affiliation, sending him to Notre Dame.
“It means the world. I imply I couldn’t have requested for a greater training. Notre Dame has been a dream of mine over these previous couple of years,” he stated. “So, to give you the chance to go there on the Evans Scholarship and to expertise all that it has to supply. Though I haven’t skilled it but, I can inform it’s going to be life-changing.”
Local perspective:
Nevertheless, his path to Notre Dame hasn’t been straightforward. At a younger age, he misplaced his father.
“I feel in a number of ways in which course of made me a greater man in a number of methods,” he stated. “Not having a father, often fathers add help. That sort of pushes you to try this. So, I’m sort of studying to try this by myself has been invaluable.”
However he hasn’t been alone. Bobby’s mother has been so necessary in serving to him turn into who he’s.
“It’s particular to give you the chance to sort of go to your mother and say I did this. I clearly had a number of assist, and I’m interdependent. However it is because our exhausting work collectively and what you gave me,” Koehne stated. “So, thanks. It’s a way of gratitude having the ability to, for my mother, to give you the chance to do that.”
So, when he goes to Notre Dame and continues on in life, he’ll comply with his mother’s instance.
“One of many issues I’m fairly positive it’s going to be is it’s going to be in some form of serving to folks or public service in a roundabout way,” Malone stated.
“Every little thing is a present. My training I’ve, my household, my very own items and skills, I might be within the unsuitable if I assumed that that was mine, and I may use it for my very own profit,” Koehne stated. “I don’t know, it’s simply sort of inconceivable to me that I may do it for a cushty life. I don’t assume that’s a helpful life.”
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And even after he’s left Blue Mound, his title is among the many different former caddies who’ve earned the Evans Scholarship, and he’ll nonetheless be an inspiration to the following one to comply with in his footsteps.
Dig deeper:
The Evans Students Basis awards the scholarships to high-achieving caddies with restricted monetary means.
Blue Mound Golf & Nation Membership has had Evans Students go to Notre Dame, Wisconsin, Marquette, Minnesota and Northwestern.
For extra data, go to the Western Golf Association’s website.
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