Brent Ryan, our Golfer of the Week, is from Regina.
He was introduced to the game at four years of age on a family vacation at Clear Lake in Manitoba, and has enjoyed holding onto a club ever since.
Ryan’s family lived in northwest Regina, located within walking distance of the Joanne Goulet Course, and he chose it as the course to play while growing up.
Ryan participated in many junior golf events in Regina, beginning at the age of 12. As a member of the Riffel High School golf team, he attended several high school championships and finished as high as third in the city.
Ryan is now a member at Deer Valley Golf Club and plays three to four times a week. His best round ever was a bogey-free 66 at Deer Valley, which he shot that day while enjoying the company of former Canadian junior curling champion and four-time Brier competitor Braeden Moskowy in his foursome.
Ryan has enjoyed not one, but three holes in one since he began playing the game, two of them coming at the Murray Golf Course in Regina on par-3 holes 4 and 10, and the other at his home course Deer Valley on the par 3 fourth hole.
Ryan has golfed most of the courses in and around Regina, but his favourite golf trip is to White Bear Lake, where his grandparents used to own a cabin at Sandy Beach on the lakeshore.
Ryan uses TaylorMade drivers and irons, Titleist Vokey wedges, and an 18-year-old Titleist hybrid. He uses a TaylorMade putter and chooses the Pro V ball also made by Titleist.
Ryan has played Copper Point and Grey Wolfe in British Columbia and a few courses in the Phoenix area. His favourite hole is at Grey Wolfe, called the Cliffhanger, which is a 200-yard par 3. His favourite hole at his home course is the par 3 No. 2.
Ryan has attended the PGA Championship as a spectator twice at Whistling Straits Golf Course in Kohler, Wisc. Next year the Ryder Cup will be held there and he hopes to play a round on it during the trip; it is the course he would most like to play, providing the restrictions are lifted that have been placed on travel due to the pandemic.
Ryan was again playing alongside curler Moskowy at
White Bear Golf Course on the day of this interview, and after parring the front nine, he got “eaten alive on the back” in the wind, finishing his round with a score of 79.
