Born: 15 April 1971
Known for: An English former professional snooker player. He spent 16 years on the circuit and remained in the world's top 64 for 13 years. Wykes turned professional in 1991 and achieved a career highest ranking of 56 in 1999, twice reaching the final qualifying round of the World Championship. He enjoyed victories over top names such as Paul Hunter, Joe Johnson, Neal Foulds and Willie Thorne and in 1999 reached the last 16 of the UK Championship in his home town, Bournemouth, where Stephen Hendry made a 147 on the way to beating him 9–3.
Bournemouth Connection: Wykes resides with his family in Tuckton, Bournemouth. He has two sons, Lewis and Samuel. He currently runs his own wealth management company.
Cache owner’s notes: In the 90s I used to go to the snooker tournaments when they came to Bournemouth so was aware of Wykes and his Bournemouth connections. I also enjoyed playing the game regularly in my teens.
Series Information: This is one of 10 geocaches in the Bournemouth People (2022) series. Nine caches are stand-alone traditional caches. Each cache found will provide one of three bonus clues, which will reveal the coordinates for the tenth mystery cache. With only three clues to collect, you do not need to find all the caches in this series in order to have the information for the final, so if you are unable to find one, you should still be able to get the coordinates required. For the purpose of this series, please note that the bonus clues are numbered ‘Bonus Clue 7’, ‘Bonus Clue 8’, and ‘Bonus Clue 9’, to avoid confusion with caches found in other Bournemouth People series.