Evan Bridges Memorial Scholarship Fund

05/08/2026

Congratulations to the 2026 Evan Bridges Memorial Scholarship winners. Jayden Johnson, who is headed to Clemson in the fall and Ahavathel Volkov, headed to USC Columbia. Go do great things kids!

08/04/2025

We can't thank our friends, family, sponsors, and community enough for the tremendous response to the 1st Annual Evan Bridges Memorial Scholarship Tournament. Everything went off perfectly. Even the weather gave us a break. We especially want to thank the following sponsors:

Haley Strickland-photography
Chick Fil A of Greenwood for providing lunch
Dale Stetz at Upstate Awards and More for providing trophies
Ware Shoals Golf Course for hosting our event

Our Hole Sponsors:
Parker White Pruitt Funeral Home
Pracht Injury Lawyers
ES Foundry
Boyter's Driving School
Piedmont Fire Extinguishers
Environmental Golf
Farm Bureau-Shanon Calvert
Jackson Utilities
Lilly's Flower Shop
Holcomb Collision
Hair by Kiera Holcomb
Ware Shoals Athletic Association
CD's Hydroseeding
Chelsea Evans Hair
State Farm-Chan Chitwood
David Evans Flooring
Craig Crawford
McLeod Enterprise Consulting
David, Brenda, and Adam Hicks
Fork Branch Farms

Donors:
JMB Builders
Sanjeev Chaurasia
David & Kelly McAllister
Pat Harrison
Lionel & Karen Moss
Stan & Sue Norman
Erika Boswell
George W. Shepard & Son, Inc.
Jacob & Lynn Bridges
Bryan Butler & Claywell Allen

As well as all the players who gave their time and money to our cause. Evan was taken from us far too soon and we have chosen this as a way to keep his name and memory alive in a positive way. We will be back next year, hopefully bigger and better. With this year's results, we now have to decide: do we award bigger scholarships or more scholarships next year? What a beautiful dilemma to have! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. I'm sure Evan is watching all of this with a smile.

Photo collection by Bridges Photography

08/03/2025

The 1st Annual Evan Bridges Memorial Scholarship Tournament is a wrap and what a roaring success it was! We sold out the golf course capacity, had tremendous response on the hole sponsorships,lunch was donated by Chick Fil A of Greenwood, Zach Calhoun and his staff at Ware Shoals Golf Course were amazing, and after about 6 weeks of 95+ degree weather, it was cool and overcast for the tournament with rain holding off until just as the last golfers were finishing up. It was as if our angel watching over us orchestrated the perfect day for us to honor his memory. This event insures we will be able to help more kids heading off to college next year, and just as importantly, hopefully the promise of this scholarship being available will influence high schoolers at Evan’s Alma Mater to strive toward the qualities in their life that will make them eligible for the Evan Bridges Memorial Scholarship. We will have another post later today properly thanking everyone who participated and sharing photos from our amazing day.

06/26/2025

You can now sign up to play or for hole sponsorships online at https://forms.gle/F65nc8Rgpq3a5xSH9.
You can choose to pay the day of the tournament or you can pay online at this link.

06/19/2025

We are trying to get an estimate on how many golfers to prepare for. I you are planning to play in the tournament, can you let us know through Messenger?

05/10/2025

Congratulations to the first winners of the Evan Bridges Memorial Scholarship! Destiny Alewine and Joseph Kletzke each were awarded a $500 scholarship and Jayce Medlin was awarded the main scholarship of $3,500. They were selected from all applicants by a committee made up of a group of people who were closest to Evan during his lifetime. The selection was based on athletic participation, leading with heart, being a team player, showing compassion for others and having Hornet pride. I think Evan would be very happy with the choices. Year 1 was a success. Now let's raise some money so we can do this again with the Class of 2026 and keep Evan's memory alive!

04/25/2025