Lists Monaco as home, but also has residences in New Jersey and Florida.

Played soccer competitively until age 16.

In his amateur days he enrolled at the Gothenburg golf school as a 16-year-old 5-handicapper.

Swedish Boys Champion in 1988, and British Youths champion two years later, then helped Sweden to win the Eisenhower Trophy by 12 strokes ahead of the United States in New Zealand where he won the Individual title.