Three Additional Eisenhower-Evans Scholarships Awarded

The Colorado Golf Association and the Western Golf Association have awarded three additional Eisenhower-Evans Scholarships to the University of Colorado for 2008 increasing the freshman class size to fifteen. The new recipients of the scholarship (and the caddie program they qualified through) are Taytum Kelley (Ballyneal), Samuel Makings (Cherry Hills CC), and Michael Wahl (Denver CC). These three caddies will receive full tuition and housing to CU, and will be joining the 26 other Eisenhower-Evans students who currently reside in the Eisenhower-Evans Chapter House on the CU Boulder campus.
 
The Eisenhower-Evans Scholarship is a need based scholarship that is awarded annually to deserving young men and women who have caddied for a minimum of two summers and who meet the other criteria of outstanding scholarship, personal character and financial need. The number of recipients has more than doubled since 2006. With increased exposure, the goal is to send even more deserving caddies to college. The value of the scholarship is estimated to be $50,000.
 
The Eisenhower scholarship program was created in 1961 and was merged with the Chicago-based Evans Scholarship program in 1963.  Over the past 40-plus years over 350 E.E. Scholars have attended C.U. and lived in the Chapter House at Boulder.  The Evans Scholarship was created in 1930 and was started by Charles “Chick” Evans who learned the game as a caddie.  Evans gained worldwide fame in 1916 when he became the first golfer ever to win both the U.S. Amateur and U.S. Open championships in the same year.
 
The Eisenhower-Evans Scholarship is supported and funded by the efforts of the Colorado Golf Association and the Western Golf Association which is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.  Since its inception in 1930, 8,399 Evans Scholars have graduated from the program through one of the 18 schools that are part of the scholarship program.  Of these 18 schools, 14, including The University of Colorado, have Evans Scholar Chapter houses.

Funding for the program is entirely from the game of golf and comes in the form of bag tag sales, Par Club memberships and the BMW Championship.  Here in Colorado, nearly $410,874 was raised in 2007 from generous golfers to cover the costs of tuition and housing for the program.
For more information on the scholarship contact the Colorado Golf Association, at 303-366-4653 ext. 102, or visit the CGA website.