Two Recent Graduates Caddying At BMW Championship Are The Latest Recipient Of The Evans Scholarship

OWINGS MILLS, Md. (WJZ) — Practice rounds for the BMW Championship continued Wednesday astatine Caves Valley Golf Club successful Owings Mills. The tourney is acceptable to officially footwear disconnected time and each of the proceeds raised during the title are going to assistance immoderate well-deserving caddies caput disconnected to college.

As the prima roseate implicit the BMW Championships Wednesday morning, 2 young caddies were retired agleam and aboriginal moving alongside immoderate of the biggest names successful golf.

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They were doing what’s helped them gain a afloat thrust to the adjacent measurement successful their world careers — The Evans Scholarship.

“It means a lot. It beauteous overmuch means I person the accidental to spell to assemblage which has been a imagination of mine,” said Varada Maulkhan.

Maulkhan is the 1 of the latest students to person the scholarship. The caller Catonsville High School postgraduate was selected for it aft caddying dozens of rounds astatine the Baltimore Country Club and astatine Caves Valley — She’s present caddying astatine the BMW Championship for 14-time PGA Tour winner, Justin Thomas.

“To beryllium a portion of it, it’s a beingness accidental for me. I americium truthful blessed I get to beryllium part,” said Maulkhan.

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Every dollar raised during the tourney goes toward the assistance which lone astir 300 caddies crossed the state are selected for based connected their academics, fiscal request and caddy record.

Dulaney High School postgraduate Rebecca Lannon was besides awarded the scholarship.

“I didn’t cognize what would hap erstwhile I applied. I conscionable benignant of applied, hoped it would enactment retired and past it did and it’s ace cool,” said Lannon.

Both caddies are disconnected to the University of Maryland connected Monday — a caller assemblage spouse for the Evans Scholar Foundation.

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“These 2 young ladies volition beryllium the archetypal Evans Scholars successful our history, which is 90 positive years to beryllium astatine the University of Maryland and we’re precise hopeful that determination volition beryllium 40 to 50 students determination successful the precise adjacent future,” said John Kaczkowski, President and CEO of Western Golf Association and Evans Scholars Foundation.

Stetson Miller