{"id":470975,"date":"2026-02-12T21:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/470975\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T21:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:36:09","slug":"evergreen-golf-course-announces-new-head-professional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/470975\/","title":{"rendered":"Evergreen Golf Course announces new head professional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/9ff1e95a-123d-4542-afa8-ef91039f555f-1-scaled.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Steve Ryde is the new head professional at Nipawin Evergreen Golf Course. (Image Credit: Clark Stork\/northeastNOW Staff)<\/p>\n<p>By Clark Stork<\/p>\n<p>Big shoes to fill<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tFeb 12, 2026 | 1:23 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Nipawin Evergreen Golf Course has announced Steve Ryde as their new head professional.<\/p>\n<p>Ryde, 47, started his golf journey on the sand green courses of Eston, Sask. before attending Lethbridge College\u2019s golf management course. He became a professional in 2001. Ryde\u2019s golf career has taken him from his hometown to Kananaskis, B.C., North Battleford, the Northwest Territory, and most recently, Saskatoon. <a href=\"https:\/\/northeastnow.com\/2025\/12\/03\/tallon-to-retire-after-28-years-at-evergreen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">He said replacing Derrick Tallon is an honour.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am an outdoorsy guy, I love coming to the golf course every day,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a really great fit for my family, and it\u2019s really exciting.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Ryde also spent five years as the tournament director and manager of sport for Golf Saskatchewan, the governing body of amateur golf in the province before returning to a role at the Willows Club and Clubhouse Golf Academy. He said he\u2019s been interested in the head professional position ever since Evergreen hosted the 2019 Saskatchewan Junior Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steve Ryde is the new head professional at Nipawin Evergreen Golf Course. (Image Credit: Clark Stork\/northeastNOW Staff) By&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-470975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}