Per-Christian Nygren says that when he was a teenager, the sport of motocross was like a drug. While it gave him undoubted ‘highs’ which he remembers fondly, it would also come at a cost in the form of a major crash when he was aged 16; in which he received multiple injuries including a permanently paralysed left arm. Having experienced this trauma, his courage, the ‘never wanting to give up’, conflicted with the more safety conscious of his thoughts.


For a man who had to deal with life-changing injuries, competition with others on a golf course is just one small part of the positive effect of this sport; he also enjoys testing himself against the course itself while always seeking to improve his skills. Through sheer hard work (plus a lot of joy) he has turned himself into a golfer of some steel, with a rhythmical one-armed swing, holding the club in his right hand (like a tennis player in fore-hand), using his strength and timing to play off a 19 handicap which, at aged 49, is on the way downwards.


Please enjoy the story of Per Christian Nygren.