Hobbies
Golf:
For the past 15 years, golf has been a great passion of mine. When you competed at a sport at a high level, it seems there is always a need to challenge yourself in some way when you retire from your main sport and for me that challenge is golf. I took on the game in college, because some of my good friends at university were in the golf team, so we sometimes exchanged some tennis and golf practice. However, I really became passionate about the sport after college when I started working in South Carolina, where there are beautiful golf courses.
Being an individual sport, just like tennis, golf offers a great personal challenge to push yourself to improve to the maximum and it is a great game for the mind. It can be quite frustrating at times, especially when you are a competitive person, but for me, it is the best way I have found to unwind and disconnect from work, being in nature and beautiful settings.…not one golf course is the same, so the challenge to beat the golf course changes every time.
This passion has become a motivation for me to get to the highest possible level. I am currently a 4 handicap and working at hopefully one day being a scratch golfer (0 handicap). It is also a way for me to motivate myself to stay fit and work at achieving technical, physical and mental goals, just as I did in the past with tennis.
Friends and family:
There is nothing more important for me than my family and my friends. I have a very close relationship with my parents, who I try to see as much as possible, even though we do not live in the same country. The same goes for my close friends, as I truly value the friendships that I have made all over the world, especially growing up in Switzerland. I also enjoy a nice meal and good glass of wine in good company.
All sports:
There is no doubt that I am a huge sports fan and follow most sports and major sporting events, especially tennis, golf, football and basketball, but I also enjoy watching most Olimpic sports. I guess it is a bit of a weak point of mine to spend lots of hours in front of a screen watching sports. In addition, I also enjoy to play different sports myself, including tennis and golf of course, but also padel, football, ping pong and more.
Movies and music:
This could be a given, as most people also enjoy some type of entertainment, whether it is music, series, reading books or watching movies, but I should say that I am a huge movie fanatic and could easily watch a movie everyday. It often changes I guess and some people will tell you that I have 40 movies in my top 10 :-), but this would be some of my favourite movies and music artists at this moment:
1) Pulp Fiction 2) Forrest Gump 3) The Usual Suspects 4) The Shawshank Redemption 5) A few good men 6) Good Will Hunting 7) Gladiator 8) Remember the Titans 9) Training Day 10) Philadelphia
1) U2 2) Queen 3) Michael Jackson 4) Guns N’Roses 5) Radiohead 6) Muse 7) Phil Collins 8) Eminem 9) The Cranberries 10) Audioslave
