A familiar course will have a new name when play resumes later this summer. The Canal Shores Golf Course has been renamed The Evans at Canal Shores, per an announcement of the Evanston Wilmette Gol…
The new logo for the former Canal Shores Golf Course, now renamed The Evans at Canal Shores in honor of golfer Chick Evans. The Canal Shores Golf Course has been renamed The Evans at Canal Shores, per an announcement of the Evanston Wilmette Golf Course Association and course’s management firm, KemperSports. Coinciding with the re-brand, an owl will now be the course’s logo.
The incorporation of the Evans name links the course to Chick Evans, who went to high school in Evanston on his way to starting an amateur golf career. Working with the Western Golf Association, thewas formed in 1930, awarding full tuition and college scholarship to youth caddies. The Canal Shores course is very close to the initial Evans Scholarship House, opened in 1940 at Northwestern University.
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