Mark has par round victory

Mark Long has had a par round victory in the 2001 Everglades Cup, two shots clear of runner-up Luke Devlin of Toukley.

Mark announced during his response at the presentation that he, wife April and family to be would be moving to Queensland in the near future.

The combination of the Everglades Cup and the Everglades Bowl and the addition of the Everglades Plate appeared to be a successful, attracting a total field of 246 players with visitors from over a dozen different clubs.

A jubilant Hayden Went carded his best competitive round of 76 to take out the Everglades Bowl by two shots from Kevin Ware.

Keith Collins showed that C graders can also rise to the occasion by winning the inaugural Everglades Plate with an 86, again two shots clear of Tim Lambert.

In the Everglades Club championships, 2001 Shane Smith and Stewart Wilson went right to the wire in the A Grade Championship with Shane on 291 prevailing by a shot.

In B Grade, defending Champion Gary Heath was no match for the evergreen Col Pittman, with Col winning by an incredible 17 shots and a score of 209 to take out his fifth B Grade Championship since 1984.

Col who started the Championships on a handicap of 13 is now enjoying more exhilarating competition in A Grade on a handicap of 10.

C Grade Championship winner was Keith Nunn with a score of 356 giving him an advantage of six shots over runner-up Bill Corless.

A Presentation Night will be held on December 7.

Rounds of the month: 20/10 R.Thompson net 62, 21/10 M. Hughes 43 pts, 26/10 D. Johns and A Melnik 54 pts, 27/10 A Quintrell net 62, 2/11 Z. Wilkins net 62, 4/11 R. Moore 50 pts, 4/11 S Verkade 49 pts, 9/11 G Broom 48 pts, 10/11 R Baxter 44 pts, 11/11 D Overall 45 pts, 16/11 N. Williams 44 pts and 17/11 J Player net 62.

Only one hole-in-one was recorded and that was by K Chapple at the eighth on November 2.

Junior member Simon Hoyland has been chosen for sponsorship by Everglades Men's Golf to attend a "Jack Newton Junior Golf Foundation" golf camp at Narrabeen in December.

Pennant season is rapidly approaching again and a major item on the agenda at the next meeting of the match committee will be the direction to be taken in the selection, management and promotion of Pennant Teams for 2002.

A green rebuilding program has commenced with work underway on the 13th green.

The green is to be resurfaced from turf grown on the club's own nursery greens.

The turf lifted from the surface of the 13th will be used to surface the temporary green that is being established near the neck of the fourth hole.

"Pace of Play" guidelines have been introduced to speed up play on Sundays.

Sunday golfers have been asked to acquaint themselves with the guidelines and associated penalties.

The Committee has accepted, in principle, the introduction of a voluntary scheme in which competition golfers are asked to contribute 20 cents to a charity each time that they have three putts or more on any hole.

John Henry, November 21