Tiger Woods at today’s BMW Championship Gardner Heidrick Pro-Am with Evans Scholar Sarahi Ortiz who served as his caddie. This is the first time in more than a decade that current Evans Scholars served as caddies for the PGA TOUR pros during a BMW Championship Pro-Am. (photo courtesy of the PGA TOUR)
BY AAGD STAFF
August 14, 2019
How does it feel to caddy for Tiger Woods, the former World Number One golfer? Evans Scholar Sarahi Ortiz got the rare opportunity to personally find out. The experience took place at today’s BMW Championship Gardner Heidrick Pro-Am. During the round, Sarahi discreetly chatted with Woods, answering brief questions that he asked her about her education, career goals, and ambitions. The round will definitely be a savored memory for Sarahi to share with friends, family and future colleagues through her lifetime. View the video reel below, courtesy of the PGA TOUR.
ABOUT
Evans Scholars Foundation
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.
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.
Today, the Foundation is funded by contributions from Par Club members across the country as well as proceeds from our championships. The Evans Scholars Program provides academic, professional and social resources that help students maintain a cumulative 3.3 GPA and 95 percent graduation rate. There are a record 985 Evans Scholars enrolled in 18 leading universities for the 2018-19 academic year, and more than 10,830 young men and women have graduated as Evans Scholars since 1930.
