GOLF Getting Personal
Greg Kilgour - he wants to bag all the Munros (I had to Google)!
Who are you? Greg Kilgour, Course Manager at Elmwood Golf.
Family status. Single.
Who’s your hero and why? My Granddad; when I was young it seemed there was never a problem he could not fi x.
What’s been the highlight of your grounds career so far? Gaining GEO accreditation three times and the team I have built up around me that helped achieve it.
If your younger self saw you now, what would he think? Thought you would be balder.
Which famous people wind you up? The Conservative party.
What job would you love, other than your own? Benign dictator.
What was the most
embarrassing moment in your life? The fi rst time I got drunk.
What is your favourite fi lm? Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
What scares you? Climate change.
What would your
autobiography be called… and who would play you in the fi lm? Full Forest – Tom Hanks.
What is your favourite sport? Cycling.
What would you cast into Room 101? Plastic.
Which historical time and place would you most like to visit? Italy during the Renaissance.
What’s your favourite smell? The smell after rainfall.
Do you have a lifetime ambition? To bag all the Munros.
What talent would you like to have? Rhythm - so I could play a musical instrument or dance.
18 PC October/November 2020
What’s the best advice you have ever been given? Don’t dwell on mistakes ... learn from them and move on.
Which three people, living or dead, would you invite to a dinner party? Ian Curtis, Hunter S Thompson and Leo Tolstoy.
What’s your favourite piece of trivia? There are more atoms in a teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic ocean.
Which three albums would you take to a desert island? OK Computer - Radiohead, Exile on Cold Harbour Lane - Alabama 3, I Had the Blues, But I Shook Them Loose - Bombay Bicycle Club.
What’s the daftest work- related question you have ever been asked? The 18th fairway is growing the wrong way, why don’t you fi x it?
What’s your favourite piece of kit? Our 1994 SISIS slitter; it’s cheap to run and has made a huge diff erence in helping combat thatch build up.
What three words would you use to describe yourself? Calm, stressed and confused.
What is the single most useful thing you could tell a 16-year-old groundsperson/ greenkeeper? Ask as many questions as you can and grab any opportunities available to build your experience.
What law/legislation would you like to see introduced? Legislation that will protect workers rights, environmental standards and animal welfare post Brexit.
each season was much more prominent and, by September, the golfi ng season would start to wind down and you would start to see slower growth, but now it keeps growing right up until November.”
Greg’s greenkeeping team also have the responsibility for training students and maintaining the course on a daily basis. “I have my Deputy Ryan Stenhouse and two senior greenkeepers, Mark Hood and Daniel Lang. These three guys are the ones who deliver the majority of the practical training and are LANTRA accredited instructors. I also have one assistant greenkeeper, John Law, who completed his work
experience with us; he enjoyed it and was a great wee worker, so I put him forward for the NC training and he has been with us ever since.”
I asked Greg how he manages to juggle both sides of the job; how it aff ects maintenance planning with having to train the students and get the job done, all at the same time. “A lot of people think when you have a class of fi fteen students, the course will be amazing with so many hands-on deck. In reality, until they are near to fi nishing their course, that is not the case. As you can imagine, there is a lot of handholding, as many of them do not have any prior experience at all. It is a case of
This year, because of Covid-19, that hasn’t happened and we have had to move everything online, but we adapted to that quite seamlessly
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