Overview The Evans Scholars Invitational is a Korn Ferry Tour tournament conducted by the Western Golf Association, and all of its proceeds go to the Evans Scholars Foundation, which pays full college tuition and housing for young caddies. A 156-player field plays four rounds from Thursday to Sunday, after the pro-am days. The event was known as the NV5 Invitational in recent editions and played for years at The Glen Club in Glenview. It now moves to Stonebridge Country Club in Aurora, Illinois. On site Stonebridge is a Tom Fazio design on 168 acres of mature oaks, creeks, ponds and native grasses in the Fox Valley, and it has hosted PGA Tour Champions and LPGA events. Grounds admission has been free to the public in recent editions, with fans registering online. Along the finishing hole, Corona Cabanas give private groups a shaded porch with lunch and a full bar, and the Lemonade Stand presented by Mike's Hard Lemonade is an open-air beer garden above the green. Ticket upgrades lead to the Trophy Club. Friday is Folds of Honor Friday, a military appreciation day, and recent editions have added a Kids Zone for families. Audience Ticket-buyer data from Live Analytics puts the crowd at 84% male, with an average age of 48, household income around $217K and net worth around $2.17M. 62% are repeat buyers. Most come from nearby: 61% live within 25 miles of the course. Talent and Influencers The field is 156 Korn Ferry Tour players competing for PGA TOUR cards. Past champions include Scottie Scheffler, who won here in a playoff before reaching world No. 1 and winning majors, along with Cameron Young, Harry Hall, Johnny Keefer and Tommy Morrison. Young and Hall have since won on the PGA TOUR, and Keefer went on to be Korn Ferry Tour Player of the Year. Tour pros also play in the SWAG Pro-Am, one on the front nine and another on the back, and they lead the junior clinic. Track record The tournament comes in the closing stretch before the Korn Ferry Tour Finals. Cards are on the line, and 7 of the top 8 finishers at one recent edition went on to earn them. Morrison holds the tournament scoring record at 29 under. As the NV5 Invitational, the event won the PGA TOUR Charity Challenge and its $125,000 prize for the WGA Caddie Academy. Brand presence A gate partner has paid for free grounds admission in recent editions. Corona and Mike's Hard Lemonade each put their name on a hospitality venue, and Swag Golf names the pro-am. On-course signage covers tee boxes and scoreboards, a rotating logo runs on the digital leaderboards, and the fan village carries naming rights with an expo. Folds of Honor Friday and the junior clinic take their own sponsors. Inside the Ropes places guests beside a playing group as honorary observers. Sponsorship money funds caddie scholarships.