Chick Evans winning the Western Interscholastic Golf tournament in 1908. A member of the World Golf Hall of Fame, he was one of the top amateur players in the country, and won two national amateur titles and one national Open title (in 1915). Evans also won the Western Open in 1910, the only amateur to do so until Scott Verplank in 1985. He is best known as the founder of the Evans Scholarship, which over the years has given more than 9,000 college scholarships to caddies. Evans was a pioneer in the development of high school golf in Illinois. He attended secondary school at the Evanston Academy, and competing for the school he won the 1907 and 1908 Western Interscholastic tournaments. He lead in the founding of the Western Interscholastic Golf Association (WIGA), and led Evanston Academy to the 1908 WIGA team championship. Into the 1960s, Evans was an active participant in senior tournaments. Even at his age, he was competing in the U.S. Amateur events, and eventually set a record of completing 50 of these championships. Evans played his last rounds of competitive golf in 1968, winning the Illinois Open that year.
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