Kevin O’Connor
Honored in 1994
Except for a four-year period during World War II. Kevin O'Connor served as the caddie master at the Omaha Country Club for 50 years from 1933 until his death in 1983. O'Connor's state-of-the-art caddie program gained honors from various organizations as one of the best, if not the best caddie programs in the nation.
The program he nurtured remains today, giving the Omaha Country Club the only fullscale caddie program in the Midwest and one of the few in the country.
The Kevin O'Connor Scholarship Fund was established in 1952 to aid OCC
caddies who wanted to go to college. Approximately $300,000 has been spent on OCC caddie scholarships from the program which continues in his honor to this day.
In 1962 O'Connor was given a special award by the Father Flanagan Council of the Knights of Columbus, while in 1971 he was the second recipient of the Creighton Prep Distinguished Citizen Award. In 1978 O'Connor was Inducted into Creighton Prep's Hall of Fame.
O'Connor once stated being a caddie master may be an unglamorous profession, “but an insignificant profession •• emphatically not. It's been a profession which, has permitted me to spend a lifetime shaping the future or the people I love best - youngsters ."
