Interview With Ryan Weir Assistant Golf Professional Silver Spring Golf Club

Below is an interview with Ryan Weir, the Assistant Golf Professional at Silver Spring Golf Club. The following are a few traditional and non traditional golf centric questions that I love to ask influential people in the golf industry.

Can you provide our readers a brief biography?
I began golfing as a hobby at the age of 8. In my teen years I began to explore it more and more, and played high school golf for four years at Cudahy. After graduation, I started to notice a great deal of improvement, and in 2007 took a job as an Assistant Golf Professional. I moved to Naples, Florida in October of 2007 and remained down there for 3 1/2 years until I came back to Wisconsin. I am currenly a Level 2 Apprentice in the PGA's Professional Golf Management program.

When did you start golfing and who introduced you do the game?
My dad put a golf club in my hands at a young age and showed me the basics, after that my learning came from watching the PGA Touring Pros on television, and mimicking their movements.

What is your current home course?
Silver Spring Golf Club is my home course, because I work here. However, growing up my home course was Oakwood Park Golf Course, the longest public course in Milwaukee County.

To date, what is your proudest golf accomplishment?
Passing my Playing Ability Test for my PGA certification program. I woke up that morning with supreme confidence, and turned it into a 75 and 73, and passed my test by seven shots.

What is your biggest golf pet peeve on or off the course?
When people do not play ready golf. I would like to see more golfers focused on their upcoming shot, rather than watching everyone in their group hit a shot, then decide what they want to do. If every golfer was able to go to their ball and select a club and then glance at what their playing partners are doing it would make for much quicker rounds of golf.

What is your favorite club in your bag and why?
Driver. I feel that I need to be in a good spot off the tee to be able to put a good round together. I have supreme confidence in it, and when its on, I find my scores are much lower than when I spray it.

What is your favorite golf destination?
Naples, Florida. I lived and worked there for three years. Every block you travel you see another golf property. You could spend a month there and not play the same course twice.

What course is on your bucket list that you have not played yet?
Whistling Straits - Straits course.

If you woke up tomorrow and could play one course you played before, where would you play?
Augusta National. I have heard that television does not to it justice. The natural beauty of Augusta rivals anything else in the game of golf.

If you could change one aspect, rule or thing about golf, what would it be and why?
I wouldn't change anything about it. It is a perfect being the way it is. It is the toughest game to play, and only requires about a 12 inch course to play on, and that is the space between your ears.

Dream foursome (living)?
Aaron Rodgers, Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus and Alice Cooper

Dream foursome (living or dead)?
Payne Stewart, Tiger Woods, Aaron Rodgers and Ben Hogan

18 Rapid Fire, Off The Cuff Questions