Introducing: Sasha Wendland from Germany
Cádiz Cup is a Golf Invite and the last one was held May 5th 2011 at Arcos Gardens in Cádiz, Spain. Golfwriters and travel agents from all over Europe were invited. On behalf of Iceland the Icelandic travelagency World Tours (in Icelandic: Heimsferðir) and the golfwebsite Golf1.is were invited to participate.
Golf 1 interviewed 7 of the participants in the Cádiz Cup 2011. Five of those interviews have already aired here on Golf1, i.e. one with twice amateur champion Krisztina Batta from Hungary, the second with Mauricio Veloccia golf-pro from Italy and the third with Julien Bacqués, á Frenchman living in Austria, who works in the sales department of TGR-Golfreisen in Vienna, Austria, i.e. a travelagency specializing in Golf Tours, the fourth with Sasha Zelenka, who a.o. has published a comprehensive Golf guide on the abundance of beautiful golfcourses in Austria and fifth with Sergei Revinenko, golftravelagent in Moscow, Russia. Here comes the 6th interview:
Name: Sasha Wendland
Where were you born: In Munich, Germany, February 21st 1965.
Where were you raised?: In Munich, Germany.
What is your familystatus?: I am single and have no children.
When did you start playing golf?: In 2007.
Why did you start playing golf?: Just out of interest. I used to play tennis, but wanted to try something else.
Which one do you prefer parkland or links style courses? Both.
How many golfcourses are in Germany? I am not sure but I would guess they´re about the same as in France. Maybe 600-800. (Good guess Sasha! According to KPMG golfcourses in Germany 2011, are 708 – but Germany has more golfcourses than France, which has 578)
Schloß Maxlrein in Bavaria, Germany.
What is your favorite golfcourse in Germany? The course at Golf Club Schloß Maxlrein, it used to be a brewerie. It´s a golfcourse close to Chiemsee, in Bavaria
Sasha´s favorite golfcourse in Germany is in Bavaria in Golf Club Schloß Maxlrein.
What is your favorite golfcourse anywhere in the world except for Germany? Costa GC Adeje in Tenerife.
Adeje in Tenerife is Sasha Wendland´s favorite golfcourse outside of Germany
What is the most special golfcourse you have played golf on and why? I haven´t played that many in the 4 years since I started playing golf but I would say Abama in Tenerife because of the scenery and view over the sea. It´s fun playing golf on an island.
Abama in Tenerife is the most special golfcourse Sasha has played golf on because a.o. of the beautiful scenery.
What is your handicap? 35.
What is your lowest score and on what golfcourse did you achieve it? I don´t remember.
Have you participated in any other sport? Tennis.
Maybe this is a steriotypical question, you being from Germany, but what is your favorite soccer team? 1860 München.
What is your favorite food, your favorite drink, your favorite music, your favorite movie and you favorite book? My favorite food is charcoaled grilled stuff; my favorite drink beer (almost an obligatory answer being from Germany!); favorite music is rock; my favorite movie is The Elephant Man and my favorite book is Der Medicus by Noah Gordon.
What is your favorite German golfer name one male and one female? I´m closer to Angela Merkel than any golfer. (In other words Sasha has no favorite golfers, since he´s not in the same political party as Merkel).
What is your favortie international golfer (any other than German ones): Never thought about it.
What is your favorite club? 7-iron.
Have you noticed an increase in interest in the sport of golf in Germany? Maybe. Well, no not really it´s considered to be elitarian – a rich peoples sport – but it´s slowly changing with golfers like Sandra Gal and Martin Kaymer.
What do you like the best about golf? The landscape – I like golfcourses – I wanna feel something good in my heart when I look at a beautiful landscape – I want to spend beautiful time in a beautiful landscape. I like people who teach well and know golf.
At last: What´s your main goal in life? To stay healthy.
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