What an exciting week at the EBTC in Geneva!
I had the immense honour of being part of the team that represented Switzerland at the European Boys Team Championships.
We were a close-knit team where everyone made their contribution.
I played two good qualifying rounds (+1/+1) and my scores always helped the team. After the first round we were fourth! The second round started badly. My teammates who played in the morning had a bad day (+10 and +5). I went on the tee box knowing that my score was important and that I had to perform. I was under pressure but managed to finish with a solid +1 and we managed to qualify among the top eight teams playing for the title.
The first direct clash against England saw us lose 5-2.
I lost my match despite playing very good golf. I lacked experience.
The next day we beat Italy 4-3 and earned the chance to play for 5th place. I won my match against a very strong player. I was calm and played a solid, incisive game, winning 3-2.
The next day we played against Spain. I played the foursome together with a great friend of mine and we prevailed over the Spaniards 3-2. Switzerland won 3-2 and we finished the tournament in 5th place.
It was a magical experience!
Golf de Geneve 11/15 July 2023

What a fantastic weekend at the Swiss Golf Open Championship!
This year the most important tournament of the Swiss season was held at my course, Golf Saint Apollinaire, with a field of excellent amateur and professional players.
We played on the Fruit Garden championship course with back-to-back tee boxes that made the course really difficult and selective.
I am really pleased with my performance. I finished in 5th place for the Overall Men Ranking (including Professionals players) and in 4th place for the Amateurs Ranking with a total of +5 for the tournament (71/75/75/72).
I made a few big mistakes but always managed to make up for them with lots of birdies!
It was exciting!

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Discreet performance at the Golf Club Basel for the Championnat de Bâle 2023 (3/4 June).

A difficult course with high roughs that ate up the ball and very hard and very fast greens where it was impossible to stop the ball. I had to adapt my game but still couldn’t perform as well as I would have liked on a course I know well and love. A steady 77 (+5) accompanied me for all three rounds of the tournament, which I finished in 8th place.

Championnat de Bâle 2023, 3. Runde – Ergebnisse (gccbasel.ch)

A good tournament in Italy last week end at the Varese Golf Club for the Gran Premio Vecchio Monastero, a FIG tournament valid for the WAGR (28 to 30 May 2023).

The start was uphill with a disappointing 76 (+4) due to some problems on my long game. Excellent recovery in the second round with a good 71 (-1) allowed me to pass the cut and enter the final 36 holes. I played a solid game with two rounds in par and closed the tournament in seventh position.

Gare e Campionati – Federgolf

From England to the South of France to play the Coupe Yves Caillol at Golf Aix-Marseille!
Optimal weather and course conditions.
The first round was disappointing, +5 playing +4 in the par 5s that are usually my strong points. I was very motivated and the par in the second round allowed me to pass the cut and get into the field for the final round where I was able to perform better and with a -2 I finished the tournament in fourth position.
I’m happy with my mental toughness and ready to get back into the game!

Playing on a links has an incredible charm!
I have just returned from England where I played the Fairhaven Golf Trophy.
Fairhaven Golf Club is a historic English links course, which is definitely challenging. The whole course was very firm and it was really hard to stop the ball on the green plus many small bunkers scattered everywhere, difficult greens. We got really lucky with the weather for the first 2 days but as expected the bad tipical british weather arrived for the last 2 rounds. It was very fun and challenging to fight with the course and the weather.
The tournament was played over 72 holes with a cut after 36 (34 players out of 122). I played very solid the first 3 rounds, I had a great finish on my second round with a great birdie on the last to be sure to make the cut by 2 shots .Unfortunately the last round was one to forget. I ended the tournament in 31st position (+3/+1/+2/+7).
I am disappointed but also proud about my tournament in England, and I am ready to start again next weeked in the south of france.

Golf Gams Werdenberg – 22/23 October 2022

The season is coming to an end, but it is doing so with fireworks for me!

Indeed, last weekend, the first Race to WAGR was held on the Gams Werdenberg course (St. Gallen).

I finished the first round 1-under par, but in the second round I was on fire! I finished 67 (-5), which got me 1 off the lead.

The last round was great. The leader and I played it on equal terms in a fantastic crescendo.

Finally, the birdie on the last hole enabled me to end the tournament in the lead with -7, winning by one stroke.

So, to sum it up, after 3 exciting rounds I was victorious and entered the prestigious WAGR (World Amateur Golf Ranking).

A big thank you to my coaches, Emanuele De Giorgi and Richard Adby, who guided and accompanied me through my training, allowing me to arrive at the tournament in top technical form. The preparation with my fitness coach really made the difference on the last couples of holes, which I wouldn’t have been able to sustain without it. But above all, thank you to my performance coach Ian Pick, who followed me on the last day and with whom I prepared the competition to the best of my ability.