Adrian Grosser

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Adrian Grosser

Adrian Grosser (born October 14, 1968 in Würzburg ) is a German golf journalist and television commentator.

life and career

Grosser grew up in Würzburg and, after graduating from high school in the late 1980s, trained as a radio editor. By the mid-1990s he also successfully completed a humanities degree at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . After years as a freelance editor and news anchor at Funkhaus Würzburg (a broadcasting community of Radio Gong and Radio Charivari Würzburg ), the active golfer and former tennis ranking player was the head of the sports department between 1995 and 1996.

In the late summer of 1996, his television career began as a golf commentator for German Sports Television, DSF (today Sport1 ). In what was then the Kirch group, he was regularly employed in the sports editorial team of the network of channels made up of DF1 , DSF and n24 .

In 1999 he trained as a C-trainer for the German Golf Association .

In the following years, Grosser commented on professional golf tournaments, mainly on the European and US PGA Tour for the pay-TV channels Premiere World and Premiere.

On July 9, 2009, Premiere AG became Sky Deutschland AG, for which he has been working as an expert and commentator / moderator in the golf department ever since.

He also made a name for himself in the German-speaking golf landscape in the print sector. From 2006 he built up the German editorial team of the Austrian weekly newspaper "Golf Week" in Munich and was in charge of professional golf as a freelance editor. From 2007 he received a column in the main edition of the daily newspaper “ Die Welt ” entitled Abschlag, which appeared weekly for seven years. He regularly published articles in special golf supplements in “ Welt am Sonntag ”. Most recently, Grosser wrote for the magazine "Golf-Ticker".

In 2011, as a blogger, he maintained his golf community online for the first time on his then website adriangrosser.de.

In 2006 Grosser took over the editing for the German first edition of the autobiography of John Daly at Bombus Verlag.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Adrian Grosser - the voice of golf. In: smm-cup.de. April 13, 2012, accessed August 27, 2016 .
  2. New golf channel on WELT ONLINE. In: axelspringer.de. June 13, 2009, accessed August 27, 2016 .