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Western Golf Association
Championships since 1899, scholarships since 1930
Founded in 1899 by 11 Chicago-area The Western Amateur Evans Scholars nvitational
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golf clubs, the Western Golf Association
conducts six championships annually, The Western Amateur championship The Korn Ferry Tour and the Western
including this week’s Western Amateur showcases the rising stars of the game. It Golf Association conduct the Evans
hosted by Glen View Club in Golf, Ill. consistently ranks among the world’s top Scholars Invitational, which made
amateur tournaments. The roster of past
its debut on the Tour in 2019.
LOVE In addition to the Western Amateur, champions reads like a “Who’s Who” of With Alumni like Jason Day, Bryson
the WGA conducts the BMW
DeChambeau and Justin Thomas, the
American golf, including Jack Nicklaus,
Championship on the PGA TOUR, the
Evans Scholars Invitational on the Korn Curtis Strange, Ben Crenshaw, Phil Korn Ferry Tour is the path to the PGA
TOUR. The Evans Scholars Invitational
Mickelson, Tiger Woods and eight-time
Ferry Tour, the Western Junior and the winner Chick Evans. is a showcase for golf ‘s next generation
Women’s Western Golf Association’s of stars. All proceeds from the event
Western Amateur and Western Junior.
The BMW Championship benefit the Evans Scholars Foundation.
More than 450 clubs in states First held in 1899 as the Western Open,
throughout the nation are members of the BMW Championship is the second The Western Junior
the WGA. Since 1930, the WGA also of three PGA TOUR FedExCup Playoff Established in 1914, the Western Junior
has supported the nationally acclaimed events. The championship’s J.K. Wadley Championship continues to draw the
Evans Scholars Foundation, which Trophy has been engraved with the finest junior players from across the
administers the nation’s largest college names of nearly all of golf ‘s greatest United States and the world. It serves
scholarship programs for caddies. legends, including Ben Hogan, Arnold as a testing ground for the top players
The Foundation has provided college Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods. of the future. The tournament, the
educations to more than 12,000 caddies. Since 2007, the BMW Championship oldest national junior championship,
has raised more than $36 million for the is an invitational competition, with
Evans Scholars Foundation, the event’s competitors ages 15 to 19 and a
sole beneficiary. handicap of three or less eligible
to apply.

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