What is the Paul A McDaniel Boulé Scholarship Classic?

The major fundraising source for the Gamma Pi Boulé Foundation has been the Paul A. McDaniel Boulé Scholarship Golf Classic. This event is held annually , typically in the month of May, traditionally at the Brown Acres golf course in Chattanooga,Tennessee. This event has been sponsored by an ever-growing list of local and regional businesses, organizations and individuals who support our mission. Thanks to this extraordinary growth, the event has been relocated to the Council Fire Golf Club also here in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

The Council Fire Golf Club offers not only a new venue for this event , but has terrific scenery, challenging play at all levels and extraordinary fairways. This most recent tournament in June 2025 showed significant growth and raised close to $100,000

These funds continue to support four individual four year scholarships. Annual renewal of these scholarships is based on predetermined academic criteria. As of 2025, close to $200,000 have been awarded since the inception of the program in 2013.

The Paul A. McDaniel Boulé Scholarship Golf Classic was rightfully named in honor of Reverend Paul A. McDaniel. Reverend McDaniel was a widely respected community icon, religious leader, long time pastor, trailblazing political leader and official, and civil rights leader with influence throughout the Greater Chattanooga region , the state of Tennessee and the nation.