Haverford High School graduate Abigail Schmucker is one of the first women of four, to be hired as a junior caddie at Ardmore’s Merion Golf Club in its 128-year history.
Now she is the recipient of the Platt Evans Scholarship, a tuition scholarship to Penn State for caddies, writes Kerith Gabriel for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
She’s one of three Delaware County junior caddies receiving the scholarship. The others are seniors Ronan Donaghy at Penncrest High and Wyatt McCafferty at Ridley High School.
Schmucker didn’t know much about golf when she started. She wasn’t a player and only recently received her first set of clubs.
But the 18-year-old has developed a keen interest in the speed of the Merion Golf Club green, the slope of a fairway and what lies in the rough.
Now she’ll head to Penn State to study biobehavioral health on the road to becoming a physician’s assistant.
“You know, I’m very thankful,” Schmucker said.. “I think when I started the job three years ago, I didn’t realize what experiences and opportunities it was going to lead me to. To be in this position, it’s just unbelievable and I’m so very fortunate.”
Read more about how Abigal Schmucker found her way to caddying in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
