The Guy Crenshaw Memorial Scholarship committee will host the first annual Guy Crenshaw Memorial Golf Tournament at Palo Duro Creek golf course to raise funds for a scholarship to be awarded to a senior basketball player.

Tournament play will follow four-man scramble rules. The sign up deadline for play is Oct. 5, and tickets cost $10 per person. The Crenshaw Memorial Scholarship was established in 2014 following the death of head boys basketball Coach Guy Crenshaw.

“It’s really to keep his memory going,”  said Debbie Crenshaw, wife of the late Guy Crenshaw. “Hopefully we can keep it going for years to give a little bit of financial assistance to a senior basketball player since he was a basketball coach.”

The scholarship was set up specifically for basketball players. Committee member Denise King said she thinks it is the only one of its kind in the Canyon area.

“There’s no basketball scholarships given out at Canyon High School to my knowledge,” King said. “So this is a way to start a program where we can recognize CHS basketball.”

For $100, companies could sponsor specific holes in return for advertising.

“We have several companies already that have signed up to sponsor a hole,” King said. “We’ll hang their name on a sign next to a t-box and they get recognition there. Hopefully all of our golfers will support our sponsors.”

Crenshaw said upon announcing the tournament she received an immediate response from many people, but especially from the basketball coaching staffs from many schools in the area.

“In the coaching community, it’s almost like a family,” said Crenshaw, who now coaches volleyball and teaches math. “I don’t see all those coaches anymore like I used to when he was around. I’m looking forward to seeing everybody that he was associated with, just because you kind of miss that comradery.”

Crenshaw said her husband would have loved the tournament because of his passion for golf and his love for the friends he made through coaching.

“He grew up playing golf with his brothers and his dad,” Crenshaw said. “Getting out there with basketball coaching buddies and playing golf would be his thing.”

Crenshaw said despite his dislike of attention, Coach Crenshaw would have been excited about the tournament and scholarship.

“He would have thought it was great,” Crenshaw said. “He’d be a little embarrassed probably that it was out there with his name on it, but golf was his second sports love after basketball.”