{"id":150,"date":"2021-11-30T16:48:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T16:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bandondunesgolf.com\/?page_id=150"},"modified":"2025-10-07T15:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T22:30:18","slug":"evans-scholars-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bandondunesgolf.com\/golf-resort-info\/evans-scholars-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Evans Scholars Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"align-wrap align-wrap-full\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-background\" style=\"background-color:#e7e3d6\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">Bandon Dunes Golf Resort and the Keiser family have long been strong supporters of the Western Golf Association and the Evans Scholars Program.<br><br><em>We currently have 58 Evans Alumni who have been awarded full ride scholarships since 2001.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"align-wrap align-wrap-full\">\n<section id=\"big-image-slider-wrapper-id-block_c57be26b33553d522d1c231ff8234388\" class=\"mobile-height-short gcom-big-image-slider-wrapper one-slide\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"264\" src=\"https:\/\/bandondunesgolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/top-rip-right-to-left-1920x264.png\" class=\"gcom-big-image-slider-border-top\" alt=\"Ripped paper texture going from smaller to bigger left to right\" \/>\t<div class=\"flexslider\">\n\t\t<ul class=\"slides\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bandondunesgolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/117B5632-1920x1071.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"mobile-height-short\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/bandondunesgolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/bottom-rip-left-to-right-tal_darksand.png\" class=\"gcom-big-image-slider-border-bottom\" alt=\"bottom rip left to right tal darksand\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bandondunesgolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/bottom-rip-left-to-right-tal_darksand.png 1920w, https:\/\/bandondunesgolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/bottom-rip-left-to-right-tal_darksand-300x22.png 300w, https:\/\/bandondunesgolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/bottom-rip-left-to-right-tal_darksand-1024x75.png 1024w, https:\/\/bandondunesgolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/bottom-rip-left-to-right-tal_darksand-768x56.png 768w, https:\/\/bandondunesgolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/bottom-rip-left-to-right-tal_darksand-1536x113.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"align-wrap align-wrap-full\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-background\" style=\"background-color:#e7e3d6\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Evans Scholars History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center constrained-width-narrow has-medium-font-size\">In 1929, famed amateur golfer Charles \"Chick\" Evans Jr. asked the WGA to administer the fund he had established to send deserving caddies to college. The WGA awarded its first two scholarships in 1930, sending caddies Harold Fink and Jim McGinnis to Northwestern University. Until World War II, all Evans Scholars continued to attend Northwestern, and it was there that the first Scholarship House was established.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center constrained-width-narrow has-medium-font-size\">As the Evans Scholars Foundation grew, WGA Directors realized the impact of Chick's dream on the lives of young men and women with limited access to a college education. When Chick's original investment was exhausted, the WGA Directors perpetuated the Evans Scholars Program by making contributions of their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center constrained-width-narrow has-medium-font-size\">Today, the Foundation is funded by contributions from Par Club members across the country as well as proceeds from their championships. The Evans Scholars Program provides academic, professional and social resources that help students maintain a cumulative 3.4 GPA and 95 percent graduation rate. There are a record 1,070 Evans Scholars enrolled in 21 leading universities for the 2020-21 academic year, and 11,556 young men and women have graduated as Evans Scholars since 1930.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"align-wrap align-wrap-full\">\n<section id=\"parallax-wrapper-id-block_3887be6308ce50d7f50bc7e56446789f\" class=\"parallax-wrapper parallax-height-normal center-half\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/bandondunesgolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/EvansScholarsProgram_Caddie1.jpg');\">\n        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/bandondunesgolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/old-mac-cutout-copy-2-1.png\" class=\"gcom-parallax-border-top\" alt=\"Top Border\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bandondunesgolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/old-mac-cutout-copy-2-1.png 1920w, https:\/\/bandondunesgolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/old-mac-cutout-copy-2-1-300x22.png 300w, https:\/\/bandondunesgolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/old-mac-cutout-copy-2-1-1024x75.png 1024w, https:\/\/bandondunesgolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/old-mac-cutout-copy-2-1-768x56.png 768w, https:\/\/bandondunesgolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/old-mac-cutout-copy-2-1-1536x113.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/>    <div class=\"parallax-text-wrapper fg-white\">\n        <div class=\"parallax-sub-headline h3\">Want to become a caddie?<\/div>        <div class=\"parallax-headline fade-in h1\" data-speed=\"1400\">Check out the WGA\u2019s Caddie Resource page. <\/div>                            <div class=\"cta-wrapper\">\n                                    <a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wgaesf.org\/investing-in-the-future\/caddie-resources\" target=\"_blank\">EXPLORE<\/a>\n                                            <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"132\" src=\"https:\/\/bandondunesgolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/border-bottom-left-to-right-1.png\" class=\"gcom-parallax-border-bottom\" alt=\"Lighter colored torn paper decorative border\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bandondunesgolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/border-bottom-left-to-right-1.png 1920w, https:\/\/bandondunesgolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/border-bottom-left-to-right-1-300x21.png 300w, https:\/\/bandondunesgolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/border-bottom-left-to-right-1-1024x70.png 1024w, https:\/\/bandondunesgolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/border-bottom-left-to-right-1-768x53.png 768w, https:\/\/bandondunesgolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/border-bottom-left-to-right-1-1536x106.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/section>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bandon Dunes Golf Resort and the Keiser family have long been strong supporters of the Western Golf Association and the Evans Scholars Program. We currently have 58 Evans Alumni who have been awarded full ride scholarships since 2001. Evans Scholars History In 1929, famed amateur golfer Charles \"Chick\" Evans Jr. asked the WGA to administer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"parent":6139,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-150","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bandon Golf Oregon | Evans Scholars Program | Dunes Oregon Golf<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bandon Dunes has long been a supporter of the Evan Scholars Program. 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