About me

From the Kiel Canal to a castle hotel

I come from Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany, from near the Kiel Canal. After school I trained as a technical assistant for renewable energy, with two stays in Tanzania.

After that I moved to Lower Saxony, where my training in golf tourism began. My family was thrilled: “Mirco works at a castle hotel now!” At the time I knew about as much about golf as a carp knows about flying. Everything I knew came from films like “Tin Cup” and “Caddyshack”.

Greenkeeping, front desk and sales

During my training I saw almost everything that makes a golf facility work. I worked in greenkeeping, at the hotel and golf reception, in tournament and member administration, in finance and in event management. Later came marketing and sales. One thing I remember well is the opening of the first Golfcity facilities in Germany.

I finished my training as a sports and fitness clerk among the best of my year. Further qualifications followed, among them hotel business administrator and golf operations manager.

Portugal

A chance meeting at an anniversary party in Hamburg took me to Portugal. Two phone calls and two weeks later I was on the plane. My new workplace was a resort with 285 rooms and two golf courses, Quinta da Ria and Quinta de Cima, in a nature reserve right on the Atlantic.

There I saw a golf course that had more green fee players on a single day than some other facilities have in a whole week. I supported big tournaments, stood on stage and recommended my own favourite courses in the region to guests.

Today

Back in Germany, I am responsible for the entire golf product of two hotel chains with their own golf courses and partner courses. I have been to golf trade fairs and industry meetings, supported hotel closures and openings and flown for work well over a hundred times.

All of this became my book “Golftourismus: Dein Guide für Golfreisen”, written in German. This website carries the practical side of it further, for your own golf trip.