Entering her senior year at South Ripley High School, Lakin
Davis enrolled in AP Literature and was assigned to do a senior project. As a
member of the Pepsi Indiana Junior Golf program, Davis chose to focus her golf
interests towards the project and created a fundraiser to benefit the Indiana
Golf Foundation. “I thought it was a great way to say thank you, because the
junior golf program is how I got started when I was little. If it wasn’t for
this then I don’t know if I would have been introduced to competitive golf,”
she stated. When Davis entered high school, South Ripley did not even have a
girls golf team, but now in her senior year they can fill a five-player roster
at a match.
Along with mentor and PGA Professional Todd DeHaven, Davis
created a 16-player, scramble-formatted outing at Shadowood Golf Course in
Seymour. Between entry fees and mulligan purchases, Davis raised $500 for the
Foundation to support junior golf throughout the state. The event took place on
July 26, and a check was presented to Foundation Director Matt Brookshire and
Junior Golf Director Ryan Lambert by Davis and her family at the Indiana Golf
Office on August 11.