Former long-serving Otago Daily Times correspondent Bill Trewern has died.

He was 77.

Trewern’s remarkable stint as ODT golf writer started in 1970 and continued until 2019.

He was also a handy player, a selector and coach, a sounding board for hundreds of the region’s best young golfers, and a teacher at Otago Boys’ High School for more than 40 years.

An obituary will follow.

- Allied Media