I started playing golf when I was 9 years old. Football was my number 1 sport until the age of 14, when I started to focus on golf. I liked to practice individually and be responsible of my own scores and not so much about the team. One reason for picking golf was also that we had a great group of juniors at my home club, Kymen Golf.

European Young Masters in Austria was my first tournament abroad. I was sixteen then and didn’t know much about competitive golf. I think that tournament opened my eyes for the future. Next two years I played in the Finnish National Team (u18). In the Team I got to play many tournaments abroad and I still remember being 3^rd in German Boys. I was successful in Finland and won the Finnish Junior Championship on my last junior season.

I played four years in the men’s National Team. Again I was successful in Finland and won Finnish Championship two times. I didn’t achieve big things in European amateur tournaments but I learnt a lot about playing in different type of conditions.

The greatest achievement was to win a team tournament Copa Tailhade in Argentina with Miro Veijalainen. In Finland I won Nordic League tournament Finnish Open and couple of Finnish Tour tournaments.