Chick Evans

Charles E. Chick Evans Jr. was a prominent American amateur golfer of the 1910s and 1920s, born on July 18, 1890. He won the 1910 Western Open and in 1916 became the first amateur to win both the U.S. Open and the U.S. Amateur in the same year. He won the U.S. Amateur again in 1920, played in the Walker Cup in 1922, 1924 and 1928, and competed in a record 50 consecutive U.S. Amateurs while carrying only seven hickory-shafted clubs. He founded the Evans Scholars Foundation for caddies and is in the World Golf Hall of Fame. He died on November 6, 1979.