Just to clear a few things up.

Evans scholars is reserved specifically for golf caddies, but is really hard to get. You have to be in the top 25% of your class (ok, thats not so hard) top academics, activities, leadership roles, get sponsored by your club, write essays, and go to many interviews. Basically, it's harder than applying to college. There are 14 chapters she says (my friend) and you can pick your top 4, they decide where to send you. But get this, its 4 years FREE TUITION. Yeah, FREEEEE, they pay 2,000 for housing, (which is less than ours living in a sorority house!) and they can go to schools like Northwestern, and Michigan.

I go to Missouri, I have a friend that lives in the chapter here. In this house there are about 35 guys, 9 girls (girls have their own floor/bathrooms) you live there all 4 years. That's all I know....I'm kinda jealous :(

p.s. they DO NOT caddy for college golf teams, they get pissed if you ask them that! haha

This is very interesting...I wonder whether they'd consider the in-state/out-of-state tuition factor when they place you. Also, do the Evans Scholars bypass the college admissions process. For example, I went to the University of Colorado, where I believe most of the Evans Scholars were from Colorado. But what if they put Northwestern as a top choice and Colorado as their 4th? Northwestern would be significantly more difficult to get into and more expensive than in-state tuition at Colorado...

The Evans Scholars house is in the University Hill district of Boulder, where most of the Greek housing it. It blends in with the rest of the fraternity houses.


On a side note, in Massachusetts we have the Francis Ouimet Scholarship for golf caddies and I think that it is up to $7,500 a year. They don't have a house, etc., as the Evans Scholars do, but it is a pretty respectable scholarship.

About 6 months ago, one of my friends (mother of 3 boys), was complaining about putting her kids through college. For some reason, I told her to sign them up for Caddy School (I was joking about Caddy School). Of course, she asked if there were scholarships for college.

Well, I told her about the Evans Scholars and how they served meals at our house in exchange for their meals. Next thing I know, she is printing off everything she could find on the Internet on the Scholars.
Seriously, her 13 year old just finished Caddy School and is signed up to work at the local country club this summer. Mom means serious business. She has the 7 and 9 year olds reading books on golf now so that they are ready for Caddy School in a few years. She won't show them Caddy Shack, yet.

I can't say enough great things about the Evans Scholars. They were the greatest bunch of guys, they were smart and were a lot of fun.

My brother was an Evans Scholar at Northwestern. I also have a cousin that was an Evans Scholar at Marquette. Both of them treasure their days as an Evans Scholar as much as any member of a GLO would. I can still remember going over to my brother's house, and meeting his "brothers" (at the time it was all-male, now they do allow women). They had parties, and house functions, and it was run just like any other fraternity except everyone in the house was on scholarship.

My brother was a golf caddy at a nearby country club. He was also an excellent student, and with three of us in college at the same time, my mom (father died) could not have sent us unless we all got finanacial aid.
Picture this, though- a fully-paid colllege tuition, with housing also covered. He was a houseboy in a sorority on campus for his food/board.
My other brother (a Phi Kappa Psi) and I had loans to pay back. The Evans Scholar did not. The Phi Kappa Psi went to a campus that did not have Evans Scholars, so he could not apply for the scholarship.

I have never heard either one of my brothers complain about being caddies. Evans Scholars Headquarters (located in Golf, Illinois) is near our family home. Now my brothers play golf instead of caddying. It has always been a win-win situation. The Evans Scholars are one of those little-known secrets in college life. However, I believe that it is now much more competitive than it used to be (sounds exactly like Greek life, right?). Tell your friend to go for it. Being a caddy teaches responsibility, something every kid should know about before he gets to college anyway. :)

Had no idea caddying was such a lucrative business.

Stevie Williams doesn't do too bad.

of course it is. Think about it- you are 16 years old and caddying at a country club for the summer. Who are you caddying for? CEOs, lawyers, Dr.s, other well connected people. You are a good caddy (and an even better person) and you form relationships with the members. They begin to request you as their caddy. You caddy every summer for 7 years, and you have "regulars". Those regulars might we willing to give you a letter of reference or a letter of introduction so when you graduate you have some fairly influential people behind you.

One of my college friends that caddied ended up doing an intership at the law office of one of his regulars and after law school clerked for another that was a judge.

^^^^ Agreed. I know so many caddies who became executives. During their experience they learn how to interact with adults far before their peers. They also need to dress appropriately (shirts with a collar that are tucked in, they are wearing a belt, etc). Their connections become invaluable when it comes to getting into a college and sometimes getting a job.

My dad often gets a caddy simply because he likes to walk the course and its getting too hard to carry the bag 18. He has written many recommendations for caddies who are trying to get into engineering school, particularly competitive ones (he is an MIT alum).

Also, some of the "regulars" will pay for the caddies to travel with them to golf tournies. Even though it's not Pebble Beach, the travel can be a great experience for a kid who is not even out of high school.

I'd rather pay twice the cost of college than be in the caddy fraternity.

I also don't know of a single exec who was a caddy. Perhaps you all use the word exec too freely.

There are so many benefits to being a caddy. As mentioned by others, the personal contacts alone make it worthwhile, not to mention a potential Chick Evans college scholarship. What is your definition of an executive? :)

Chief Executive Officer of a publicly traded company will do.

Several of my Evans friends went on to become surgeons and corporate attorneys. Even though some people would not call them "execs", it still indicates they are successful in their chosen career