Dave Hewett was absent from the room when fellow Erie District Golf Association officials voted whether or not to include him in their 2024 hall of fame class.
He will be present when that class is officially inducted Oct. 26.
Hewett, an EDGA member for more than 40 years and its president since 2003, will be enshrined that day at Lake Shore Country Club. He’s one of four to join the hall, whose total will expand to 57.
Also anticipated at Lake Shore’s lectern that night are Tim Dunlavey, a Cathedral Prep graduate and PIAA individual gold medalist; and former EDGA Amateur titlist Bob Paris.
Norm Gaylord, the EDGA’s first three-time Amateur champion, will be posthumously inducted.
Dave Hewett
Hewett represented the former Gospel Hill Golf & Country Club when he joined the EDGA in 1980.
Since then the former Mercyhurst University golf star has won its four active tournaments, and one discontinued event, at least once. The 2000 Amateur and 2011 Match Play titles comprised the pinnacle of his playing career.
In recent years, Hewett’s presidential duties have included leading the ceremonies that celebrate those tournaments’ victors.
This will be Hewett’s fourth induction into a northwestern Pennsylvania athletic hall of fame. He was enshrined with the 2015 class for the Metropolitan Erie chapter of the state’s hall.
Tim Dunlavey
Dunlavey was a former EDGA junior match play winner. His name also was engraved on its Amateur trophy for 1986, 1989 and 1990.
However, it’s Dunlavey’s non-EDGA accomplishments that likely warranted enshrinement. The 1986 Cathedral Prep graduate was a three-time District 10 victor during his varsity career.
Dunlavey’s last round as a Rambler doubled as the one when he claimed the 1985 PIAA boys tournament, which was then an open format, at Penn State University’s Blue Course. It was a notable reason the University of Virginia recruited him.
Dunlavey was voted to two Atlantic Coast Conference all-star teams and qualified for the 1990 NCAA Division I tournament. He turned professional a year later and went on to win four titles in what’s now known as the Korn Ferry Tour.
Dunlavey currently lives in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where he’s an elder for Westminster Presbyterian Church. This will be his third hall induction after those for the Metro Erie chapter (2004) and Cathedral Prep athletics (2006).
Bob Paris
The lone EDGA major Paris won was its 2001 Amateur. The 1972 Tech Memorial graduate defeated Tom Amendola in a playoff at the Kahwka Club.
Paris would have swept that year’s majors had Joe Cassano not prevailed on the 18th hole of their Match Play final.
Paris did win 12 other tournaments during his EDGA career. October’s induction will bookend his 2014 enshrinement in the Metro Erie hall.
Norm Gaylord
The East High School graduate, who died in 1976 at age 66, was only 17 when he won the 36-hole final for the 1929 EDGA Amateur.
Gaylord became the tournament’s first three-time champ when he finished first for its 1933 competition. His EDGA career concluded in 1941, the same year the first of his three childen was born and the United States began involvement in World War II.
Gaylord served in the U.S. Navy for two years.
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