Hello coaches,

My name is Leif and I am a 17-year-old German golfer.
I started playing Golf at the age of 7 thanks to my dad at the elite Hamburger Golfclub Falkenstein, which is my home club to this day. I am very lucky to be in a club that is only a 10 minutes bike ride away from my home and has a lot of talented junior players as well as professional coaches with great knowledge.

From the age of 10, I stopped playing field hockey, which was my main sport at the time, to fully pursue my passion of becoming a golf professional.
I am very determined and disciplined in the things I am passionate about which is why I already practiced from morning to night as a small kid and often found myself to be the first out and last in, especially in the cold winter of Germany. I am very competitive in everything I do and always driven to be the best. Additionally, I just have great fun when playing golf and love being out there with my friends and very privileged to do what I love every day on a high level.

In 2015 I joined the under 12 boys junior team of my home club and I have been part of the junior team of the same club ever since. We have achieved great success from early on by winning all regional team championships from 2015-2021 and in 2017 I was part of the under 14 German National Team Championship at the age of 11. We have qualified for that tournament every year possible and done well so that we could always at least call ourselves the Top 10 best Junior Team in Germany. I very much enjoy being in a team because of the competition against each other, the fun that comes with it and success is always a lot better when you get to share it with great friends.

In 2017 I started playing in important regional and national tournaments, as well as starting to learn what it’s like playing internationally. I love the competition and always found myself learning a lot from competing and gaining motivation from good and bad results to get better and improve every day. Nowadays I only play in WAGR tournaments with great fields of players to play against the best and see where I have to get to.

In September 2022 I moved to the South of Spain to the Jason Floyd Golf Academy and the Sotogrande International School where I will stay until my graduation in 2025. I decided to go here because of the benefits of great weather all year round, great facilities and coaches which help me improve my golf game technically, physically and mentally. I also have access to prestige tournaments that are either hosted by the academy or assisted by. The Sotogrande International School has a program for athletes like myself that helps us best to prepare ourselves to go to US colleges and balance academics with the sport. This combination will consequently help me fulfill my dream of going to college, become a successful professional and most importantly a better person.