Every now and then there is something that comes to an end. For good. Then there are the things that pause, for some reason, and later resume, again for a good reason.

The latter is what is supposed to happen here.

Once golf was my focus, next to work. Then there was my wife, my first kid, and quite recently a new baby. This all shifts focus obviously, makes blurry what was clear in the past. And it all falls into a time period which is so unusual and unpredictable in my generation that one thinks twice what really matters in life. A global pandemic can indeed bring people closer together, create some clarity on what‘s important and what‘s just clutter.

Family will always be in focus, work will too and so is the health for the whole bunch. All the rest has to stand in line. And then there are these windows of time, of possibilities, of opportunities. Some are educational, some are cultural, many are leisure and some are sportive.

Long story short, I will try to make more room for golf again. I will deliver for my family, will continue my career and at the same time will strive for excellence in this beautiful sport. I know this demands time, an asset I might not have as much as before, but that only makes me more focussed, really pinpoints me on efficiency.

And it indeed closes a circle. „Golficiency is golf proficiency with German efficiency“, I wrote a decade ago. Now more than ever.

There will be more of this coming. So stay tuned.

This blog has been pretty silent over the last year which I actually feel a little ashamed of. The reason for the golf absence, at least in the blog writing fashion, has mainly to do with the fact that I became father to a beautiful baby girl, which I admire over the moon.

So priorities have shifted, the day work is important, the baby deserves a lot of time, my wife gets her share of my time without question, then I have another big online project running, read a lot, we have a house which takes some time, friends, family, hobbies and last but not least, playing golf.

Sounds like an apology? It is one, truth be told. But priorities do shift, and there is no such thing as bad behaviour for a blog that is absolutely free. I’m not even sure if somebody actually missed me, missed my golf stories or my golf pictures. Especially because Golficiency is quite active on Facebook and Instagram.

Long story short, over the winter months, I will try to create more content for my audience. Golficiency was founded in the off-season to stay in touch with the game, and it will be re-activated in the (European) off-season.

Happy reading!

After the relaunch of the website in March this year, there wasn’t much happening in terms of visuals, new features or new stuff in the shop. No excuse but that was mainly because of serious time constraint on my side. I still have some very good ideas in mind and noted down and as winter is approaching, I’m sure I’ll find the time to work on the website more than recently. I know I owe you a decent webpage with regular content.

As a first start, I changed the menu structure today and added a new featured picture on the homepage (Extra points for you if you know which course this is). As there will be more focus on course reviews, equipment tests and travel reports on the blog in the future, there are three new prominent buttons to have the visitor find his way better.

As I said, there are more interesting things on the way. Hope you are checking by from time to time. And please be reminded you can sign in for the email notification service. Just scroll down and click the “Follow” button if you haven’t already. Easy.