Defending men’s winner Jarryd Dillas will beat today’s deadline to sign up for the Bermuda Match Play Championships next week at Mid Ocean Club, but there will be a new champion in the women’s division.Dillas is going for a fourth straight victory in the four-day tournament which starts on March 6. Last year he became only the third player to win three Bermuda Amateur Match Play men’s titles back to back, joining RP Home and Louis Moniz in the exclusive club.Against Fraser Hunt in the 36-hole final last year, Dillas was four up after the first 18 holes before Hunt cut that lead to one in the second round when Dillas acknowledged “it really got close on the second 18”. Dillas sealed his third straight victory with a birdie on the 15th to win the match four and three.In the women’s division, Kathy Lloyd-Hines, who clinched a maiden Bermuda Amateur Match Play title last year when she twice came from behind to beat close friend Katrin Burnie two and one, is not available to defend her title, though Burnie has entered.Dillas had still not entered when The Royal Gazette contacted him yesterday, but he has every intention of doing so as he looks to extend his winning streak to four years, a record.“I’m a member at Mid Ocean so that has stood me in good stead over the past few years,” said Dillas, 27. “I’ve come to embrace match play a bit more over the past few years. It’s not a very predictable format, you can play really well and lose a match and similarly you can play poorly and grind out a win.“When you’re a little younger that can be hard to take whereas now I just go with it, it’s not so much playing the course as playing your opponent which again is a shift from stroke play. I’ve come to enjoy it a lot more, I’ve had some success with it and that helps with the enjoyment.”Last year’s beaten finalist, Hunt, had also not signed up by early yesterday, though he, too, could be in the field next week. Dillas, who beat Nicholas Mansell in the 2010 and 2011 finals, will start as clear favourite but knows he cannot take an opponent lightly.“You’ve got to give every opponent their due respect and go out and play the best you can and try to win the match,” he insists. ‘I’ve had three really different sorts of final matches, the first year I was four or five down to Nick Mansell after the first 18 and then I was able to turn that around. The next year I had him four or five down and he brought it back and got as close as one or two down and last year with Fraser I was always on top but the match never really felt like I had that big an advantage in it.“In stroke play you get the cream rising to the top at the end of four days, whereas in 18 holes at any level anything can happen. In match play good breaks and good fortune do tend to come into it because it is only over 18 holes. I feel more pressure as I make my way through the bracket but you always have pressure in the first round because you want to get past your first round match. As the week goes on there is the expectation of winning again and becoming the first player to, maybe, win it four in a row and I’m sure there will be a lot of pressure with that. Right now I’m not thinking about that, I just want to go out there and control what I can control and play the best golf I can and see where the chips fall come the end of the day.”The tournament will begin next Wednesday with a qualifying round, followed by the first round on Thursday and rounds three and four next Friday leading up to the 36-hole final on the Saturday.Online entry forms for the tournament are available at www.all.bm/PQN and forms must be returned to the BGA office in person, by mail, e-mail or fax.The Bermuda Golf Association also have two other major tournaments scheduled for March and April, with the Bermuda Open taking place at Port Royal from March 18-21 and the Mixed Championships at Tucker’s Point April 13 and 14. Entries for the Bermuda Open will close on March 11 and again forms are available online at www.all.bm/PPU.The entries for the Mixed Championships will close on April 8 and forms can be downloaded at www.all.bm/PQ1.The BGA April Monthly Medal will be held at Riddell’s Bay Golf and Country Club on Saturday 20th April 2013. Entry Fees will be $90, payable directly to Riddell’s Bay, with the starting time at 12:28pm.The local golfing fraternity will pay their last respects tomorrow to long serving administrator Muriel Parker whose funeral will take place at Christ Church in Warwick. Mrs Parker was a long time secretary and treasurer for the Bermuda Golf Association and was also the organiser of the Bermuda Goodwill Tournament for many years.“For over 30 years Mrs Parker was actively involved, and instrumental in the development of golf in Bermuda, the Bermuda Junior Golf Association and many prestigious tournaments such as the Bermuda Goodwill and the Belmont Invitational,” said BGA president Nicholas Mansell upon her passing.“Her drive, dedication and passion for the sport helped shape golf in Bermuda.”Mrs Parker received two awards at the annual sports awards, a Special Achievement in 198⅝6 and a Sports Citation in 2010 for her contribution to golf. .