Evergreen Everitt on a roll

You'd surmise after six continous days on the course that Geoff Everitt might have had his fill of slogging a little white ball down the fairway.
But, just minutes after walking off the course having played in the championship final of the 23rd International seniors tournament at Mount Maunganui, Everitt wanted more.
Not bad for a 70-year-old. "If I could have changed my flight back home to Australia and stayed until Monday I would have loved to stay and play in this weekend's (72-hole Grant Clements Memorial) tournament (at Mount Maunganui)," Everitt said.
It's not as if the Sydneysider - a five-times finalist and two-times winner of the International Seniors Championship - arrived at the Mount last weekend fresh.
He made his New Zealand sojourn a real golfing holiday playing for the last 15 days straight. He came to the Mount from a three-day veterans tournament in Whakatane, where he was the runaway winner by eight shots. Before that it was a five-day tournament in Taumaranui, where Everitt lost the matchplay championship on the 19th hole.
Yesterday he was runner-up again, with the five handicapper downed 5/3 by countryman Ian Vidler.
Vidler, 61, was teeing it up in his second International Seniors Championship after finishing fifth last year in Taupo.
He was three under-par when his match finished, mixing four birdies with a solitary three-putt bogey on the first hole. Vidler, who plays off a four handicap, sealed the win on the 15th when his 50m pitch into the green finished 10cm from the pin.
"It was a pretty nice way to finish it but to be honest that was the best I'd hit it all week," Vidler, the 1973 New South Wales amateur champion, said.
In contrast Everitt, the three-times Australia veterans champion, played superbly all week but lost his rhythm in the final. "I probably didn't play that badly but I couldn't sink a putt on the front nine. We each should have birdied the last six holes we played. Ian managed three but I could only get one."
More than 200 national and international tourists were in the Western Bay of Plenty this week for the championship.
Results:
division winners: Group 1.Ian Vidler (Aus). Group 2. Colin Probert (Aus). Group 3. Ken Davis (NZ). Group 4. Ken Brown (NZ ). Group 5. Phillip Davies (Can). Group 6. Somji Bhikha (Fiji ). Group 7. Norman Harwood (NZ). Group 8. John Reynolds (Aust).