BMW Media Site Hunter Mahan’s Hole-in-One at the 2013 BMW Championship Earns him a BMW i3 and a $100,000 Four-Year Scholarship for a College-Bound Evans Scholar.  Contact: Stacy  Morris 201-594-3360 (office) 201-370-5134 (cell) stacy.morris@bmwna.com     Hunter Mahan’s Hole-in-One at the 2013 BMW Championship Earns him a BMW i3 and a $100,000 Four-Year Scholarship for a College-Bound Evans Scholar.  For the Third Time, BMW of North America will Donate a Full Four-Year Scholarship to the Evans Scholars Foundation.  Lake Forest, IL - September 14, 2013… On the third day of play at the 2013 BMW Championship, Hunter Mahan scored a hole-in-one on Conway Farms Golf Club’s 17th hole, ensuring that BMW of North America will donate a $100,000 four-year scholarship to the Evans Scholars Foundation and a BMW i3 electric vehicle. All proceeds from the BMW Championship also benefit the Evans Scholars Foundation, which provides scholarships to deserving young caddies. Since 2007, the BMW Championship has raised more than $14 million for the charity.“That's awesome of BMW to do that, to have [the] Evans Scholarship. I remember playing [in] the Western Junior and hearing about it, and it's a great thing that they do,” said Hunter Mahan. “Caddies are a big part of golf, and it's awesome that a kid is going to have a great education, so that's amazing.”Yesenia Juarez, a junior Evans Scholar at Northwestern University, accepted the donation on behalf of the Evans Scholars Foundation. This winter BMW and the Western Golf Association (WGA), sponsor of the Evans Scholars Foundation, will jointly select and award the scholarship in Hunter Mahan’s name to a high school senior who will get the opportunity to attend college next fall.Mahan’s shot came during today’s play as he stepped up to the par three 17th hole. Using a 5 iron, Mahan holed his tee shot from 210-yards, concurrently fulfilling the dreams of one lucky college-bound Evans Scholar.“Congratulations to Hunter Mahan for making such an amazing shot,” said Peter Miles, Executive Vice President, BMW of North America. “Not only will Hunter be one of the first Americans to receive a zero emission BMW i3 electric vehicle, but together we are also able to ensure that one more deserving young caddy can fulfill their dreams and further their education.”“Each year BMW’s contribution to the Evans Scholars dramatically changes the course of these young lives,” said WGA President and CEO John Kaczkowski. “We thank them for this additional commitment to the Evans Scholars Foundation and congratulate Hunter Mahan on today’s hole-in-one.”Saturday’s shot was the second hole-in-one for Mahan on the PGA TOUR. He previously had a hole-in-one at the 2006 Zurich Classic of New Orleans.Mahan, 32, is a California native and former All-American at Oklahoma State. A five-time PGA TOUR winner and a veteran of two Ryder Cup teams and four President Cup teams, he turned pro in 2003 and joined the PGA TOUR in 2004. He is a winner of the 1998 Western Junior Championship, which like the BMW Championship is also conducted by the Western Golf Association, and two World Golf Championship events, the 2010 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and the 2012 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.This year’s tournament marked the second time BMW also featured two hole-in-one vehicles, awarding the first player to achieve a hole-in-one on the 11th hole a new BMW M6 Gran Coupe and the first to do the same on the 17th hole the all-new BMW i3. The BMW i3 is a purpose-built electric vehicle made primarily of carbon fiber from the ground up. BMW i is BMW’s sustainable brand with a mission to develop visionary vehicles and services that revolutionize individual mobility.At last year’s BMW Championship, Steve Stricker scored a hole-in-one as he stepped up to the 199-yard, par three sixth hole at Crooked Stick Golf Club, simultaneously fulfilling the dreams of Evans Scholar Mark Abtahi.In 2010 Sean O’Hair aced the 211-yard, par three second hole on Cog Hill Golf & Country Club’s Dubsdread course, earning a full college scholarship for Evans Scholar Helena Schwemmer.In addition to supporting the Evans Scholars Foundation through the BMW Championship, BMW of North America, LLC also provides a summer internship program for Evans Scholars to work for BMW, offering them real-world experience and invaluable insight into their future careers.BMW Group In AmericaBMW of North America, LLC has been present in the United States since 1975. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars NA, LLC began distributing vehicles in 2003. The BMW Group in the United States has grown to include marketing, sales, and financial service organizations for the BMW brand of motor vehicles, including motorcycles, the MINI brand, and the Rolls-Royce brand of Motor Cars; DesignworksUSA, a strategic design consultancy in California; a technology office in Silicon Valley and various other operations throughout the country. BMW Manufacturing Co., LLC in South Carolina is part of BMW Group’s global manufacturing network and is the exclusive manufacturing plant for all X5 and X3 Sports Activity Vehicles and X6 Sports Activity Coupes. The BMW Group sales organization is represented in the U.S. through networks of 338 BMW passenger car and BMW Sports Activity Vehicle centers, 139 BMW motorcycle retailers, 119 MINI passenger car dealers, and 34 Rolls-Royce Motor Car dealers. BMW (US) Holding Corp., the BMW Group’s sales headquarters for North America, is located in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey.Information about BMW Group products is available to consumers via the Internet at: www.bmwgroupna.com.Journalist note: Press releases, photos and videos about the 2013 BMW Championship are available on-line at www.bmwusanews.com/BMWChampionship. Further information about BMW Group and its products in the USA is available to journalists on-line at www.bmwgroupusanews.com and www.press.bmwna.com.Evans Scholars Foundation: Created in 1930, the Evans Scholars Foundation started with two Northwestern University students and has been managed since its inception by the Western Golf Association. To date, the foundation has offered more than 10,500 college scholarships to golf caddies, and during the 2013-2014 academic school year 840 caddies are attending college on Evans Scholarships, receiving tuition and housing benefits totaling more than $12 million.