Golf GETTING Personal...
Alun Hughes on a night in with his wife and a snooker
Who are you? Alun Hughes, Head Greenkeeper at Blackwood Golf
Family status:
Who’s your hero and why? My mother for bringing me and my brother up
What would you change about yourself? What’s your guilty pleasure?
What’s been the highlight of your career so far?
What are your pet peeves? Players not raking bunkers and repairing
If you could go anywhere right now, where would it be? Cardigan Bay or
What’s the best part of your job?
… and the worst?
Favourite record, and why?
If you were to describe yourself as a musical instrument, what would you be and why?
Which three people, living or dead, would you invite to a dinner party?
If you could be anyone for a day, who would it be and why? Ballesteros,
Do you have any bad habits? ... or any good ones?
Do you go to bed worrying about the next day’s workload? What are you reading at the moment? What’s the best advice you have ever been given? What’s your favourite smell?
What’s your favourite piece of kit?
What three words would you use to describe yourself? What talent would you like to have? What law would you like to see introduced?
42 I PC AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2017
behind the bar in the club the course, we could certainly do with an extra pair of hands small our team, it’s certainly a
maintenance and repairs We recently were able to purchase a new John Deere tractor with the help of our we held a monthly draw to determine who is paid back some machinery second-hand dealer, which is why we’re not loyal to one manufacturer as
2nd tee
purchase a few bits of new machinery as our youngest and one is fourteen, whilst the tees mower is sixteen years old, so it’s fair to say maintenance is keeping us
Blackwood, the Aercore machine had, sadly, been under-used for a few years and now, as a result of regular use, greens are much is key to us and we hire in a tend to outsource any large treework when necessary, and annually hire a side Back to the strong team of two, Alun takes care
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