Welcome to Predator Ridge Golf Resort. I am here in the Okanagan Valley
in beautiful British Columbia. I hope you get to see an
unbelievable golf course right in front of your eyes today,
I will be playing the Ridge. I am very excited as my first time over
here is I have a very special guest Kyla who's played on tour for six years.
So she will talk about our experience
there and many more things. She wants to see the future of
golf. And I am here to educate, inspire, and empower. So I hope this episode
does all three for you. [Inaudible]. So as you're approaching the green, you have to place your
ball marker down behind the ball. The most common mistake beginner golfers
make is they take their ball marker, and they place it in front of the ball. So that's a know your flag,
your bowl, your ball marker. You pick your ball up and now
you can clean it. If it's dirty, if it has any dust. And
I'm sure as you saw, I fixed my pitch Mark as well. I made it nice and flat and smooth, which I know you have watched
in my previous episode of how to fix your divot and how to fix your
pitch marks or your ball marks. So you are well-educated on that.
So I'm approaching the green, I've fixed my little ball Mark there.
I've placed my ball marker behind my bow.
I'm cleaning my ball and
now I'm reading my mind. So you have to pretend that there is
a straight line from my bow marker, going all the way through to the pole. The same case for my
partner's ball marker as well. He has a ball marker and
his line goes straight to the hole. So etiquette
on the green says, as soon as your ball lands, you
go, you place your ball marker, and then you clean it and you stand
behind your ball and reap the green. Very common mistake. What people do is if I'm
coming here to read what's going on, you know, and then I decide to come and walk right through my partner's line.
Remember that pretend line
that we had here, what can I, feet I'm walking right through his line. That is not proper golf etiquette. You cannot walk through anyone's
line. Now, as you can see, there's no definite line going through, but the line goes like
this all marker flag, imaginary straight line. You should never, you will never catch me walking
through that person's line. So what I need to do is if I would
like to pass and you stick a big step over their line and keep walking, or my other option is don't be lazy.
Walk around this way or walk
around their fall. Marker. So my second option is not to be lazy. My second option is walk
around, walk around them, come back to your book, marker,
take your ball, place a down, pick your ball, marker up,
place it in your pocket. And then you go right in front
of your ball and you breathe. You relax. And as you are aware, I am going first because my bowl
is the furthest away from the hole. His ball is much closer to the
person furthest away from the hole goes first. So here I
go, I breathe. I pot. It's not a very good pot. The sort of problem I
walk behind their line. I bend down again. I
placed my ball marker. I picked my ball and I
start retracting backwards. Give them their space, go ahead. And then they go and they put
something else to be aware of is I will never stand this close. Somebody putting you need to give
them space, let them breathe. You don't need to be that close to them. Second thing is you are
not allowed to stand behind them in their lines.
So you will never catch me or
anybody because you're not allowed to stand right behind them. Go
ahead as they're putting. So this is technically illegal
involved. You're not allowed. Do you mean that you
should stand to a corner either to a corner or give them some
space in front of them where you can see them. So even if I'm on the tee box, you're never sending right behind
me in my peripheral vision. So I shouldn't be able to see
you from the corner of my eye. I'd rather have the person right in front. So this is just feel a little things
on the green that are very important. You will have a shadow, a reflection on the ground
with that will be your shadow.
That shadow never be in
someone's line. Either. You should want to stay away from their
line with your reflection as well, send as far as possible. So your shadow is never going
through their line or to the floor. These are few little things that
will make you a great Gulf for, to play with etiquette is
always something that take pride in and golfers 100% take pride in etiquette because you want to play with
somebody that understands the game and, and respects etiquette.
If you play
with people that don't respect it, you might not be invited to
come back and play with them. So let's keep that in mind. Okay? So nobody wants somebody who
doesn't follow the rules and golf, especially when it comes to etiquette.
So no sending in someone's line, make sure your shadow when it's
sunny is not in their line either. And I'm always using a ball marker
to Mark your ball, clean it, and then puck the person
furthest from the hole. Always goals first. And then when COVID ends and you can
start taking the flag out too many, you can start touching the flag. The flag is allowed to stay
in the hole when you putt, that was never the case in golf,
but now you can leave it end. So what you need to be really, really aware of is you need
to communicate with the person you're playing with and say, Hey,
would you like the flag in or out? And they will say in please, great. You
leave it in.
You go back to your ball. And there you are. If they say,
actually, can you take it out for me? You take the flag out
gently and you leave it. You place it down. Instead
of slamming it down, you place it down onto the ground.
Making no marks on the green. If you've watched my previous
video with Shane Hawkesworth, who's a superintendent and my
Laura, he very clearly States.
He seen a lot of people smashing flags
on the ground and it ruins the greens. If you haven't seen that video,
make sure you click right here. And that one will tell you all about
fixing divots ball marks and how to make, make sure you manage
the green really, really well. You already know the rules on bunker as
you probably watched my previous video. If you have not click right here on the
five rules of golfer, the beginners. So, you know, I am going to have my
club rounded out here and then go in. This is more about etiquette portion
of it though, because of COVID. They no longer have rakes because
we don't want any touch points. So how are you going to rake the bunker?
So in most bunker shots you go in. You have been told to wiggle get comfortable. So what has that done? That
has created massive footprints. You have also been told
that you need to hit. Behind your ball, scoop out. So once. You do that, I'm going to pretend
to show you.
So once I do that, I create a big divot
in the bunker as well. So if I leave, look at
the mess I have created. If we had a rake who
would have raped it up, which is proper etiquette walked
out, we don't. So what do we do? Because the probate take
care of shoe, the flat part, and you sweep until it becomes flat. It will not be fun for you as a golfer.
If the person before you had
not done the exact same thing, you don't want your ball land in a big
hole. So he pined follow your footsteps, make it nice and flat until you are out. And this is the new way we rake
the bunker. Thanks to COVID. So remember how I showed
you how to clean the bunker. Look at the group in front
of me who did not sweep their footsteps. And now this is what I would have had
to deal with if I was in the bunker, but I'm not, but I will be a
good community member and white. You want to wipe your footsteps
all the way back to have it.
Nice and clean. I know it's difficult. I know it's different because
we're not used to it anymore. We don't have a rake, but we do have our feet and you can be
kind to the group in front and behind you. Please let everyone know who you are
and a little bit about yourself. Sure. Yeah. So, um, I'm Kyla, Inaba, I'm born
and bred in Colona, British Columbia. I went to school at UBC
in Vancouver and, um, I've been here for four seasons teaching
and instructing and coaching running, uh, the swimming, like a girl
program. And prior to that, I did play professional golf for, uh, about six years playing in
Canada, America, and Australia. So, um, you know, I feel like I've kind
of done a little bit of everything. Uh, and certainly now I
find a lot of passion, uh, in helping golfers rather than
before, when I was playing golf. It was a lot about me, me, me, uh, and results and kind of riding that
roller coaster, uh, when you do well, when you don't do well.
Yeah.
And, and now, uh, I really find a lot of happiness
in helping other people. So the first thing straightaway that goes
through my mind that I'm sure a lot of people are wondering is why us, you
did six years. Yep. Right on, on tour. And, um, why did you stop or was it an
injury or were you just over it? Kind of tell us what that, so if there's a competitive golfer out
there that that's what your drive is, like, tell us your journey
to that. Absolutely. So, um, I went to school at UBC, in Vancouver playing for the Thunderbirds
scholarship scholarships. They do. Yeah. It is a Canadian school.
So it's not as maybe ginormous as a
scholarship that you might get in America. Right. But it's also not the
huge tuition that you would play, pay otherwise in America as well. Right.
So, um, once I graduated from UBC, I wasn't quite ready to hang up the
clubs and I still wanted to play competitively. So I did
play until I was 20. And I knew in the back of my head,
I did want to try to turn pro. Um, so I played some mini tours as an
amateur and I played the Madame. I won the BC Madame and that was 25 and
said, okay, I'm ready. Thank you. Yeah, I'm ready to turn pro
now. Um, versus I did, when I was doing that amateur stint on
the mini tours, let's say in Phoenix, a lot of my friends were fresh out of
college.
Let's turn pro right away. Um, and I just said, you know what? I want to make sure I have the financial
backing. I don't want to rush into it. I saw a lot of my friends kind of
run out of money really quick. Uh, so I took it slow and that would be one
of my suggestions for people looking to turn pro out of college
is don't rush into it. Um, make sure you do have kind of the
finances or a plan, a game plan, a five-year plan. Um, and
then I would say, go for it. Like you'd never want to regret your
decision of not doing it.
So I would say, certainly go and try any last thing. You want a message you want
to give to women who are just still nervous. Haven't picked it up. My think it's boring or
whatever the case is, and they're just anxious to even
come out because it's just too much, like what can we say to them
to give them the first step just to come here? What would you
say to them? Yeah, I would say, uh, if you haven't tried it at all, I mean
find a driving range.
You can, I mean, golf's relatively accessible in the fact
that you can probably go to like the Sally-Ann or somewhere and
find a golf club. Right. Is that probably an old
heavy golf club? Yeah, but it's something that you can start
with, uh, or you can borrow a partner, a dad, a mom, a neighbor's
clubs, and just have a hit, like just try it out. Cause when you make that first connection
and it's sweetened it's out of the center, um, and I would say, start
with a T please start with the T um, it's, it's addicting because you want
to get that sweet shot again. Right. So, um, I would say go to a
driving range, paid 10, $20, whatever it is for a bucket of balls, it's a great way to kind of spend your
afternoon or spend an hour with friends. You can have a beer or a glass of
wine while you're doing it. Right. Um, and then when you do kind
of get that inkling of, Oh, maybe this is something
that I want to do, um, sign up for lessons like lessons, make
it so much easier.
If you have, uh, a qualified LPGA or PGA of Canada,
qualified professional to help you. Um, we're able to go look, does change
your ball position, put your club here, put your body here. And all of a sudden you can find
the center of the club instead of spending hours and hours hitting the same
shot over and over on the range or on the course, you get one lesson in you're a little bit
more on your way to find in the center of the club. So that certainly makes it
easier.
But I would say just in general, like come and try it. It's
not meant be scary. Uh, it does have that little bit of like an, an old man kinda feel at first, back in the day, right?
Uh, the gentleman's club or
whatever you told. Right. That's what we fear certainly.
But, um, if you look at, I mean, the ladies that were out there
tonight, um, there's a lot of ladies, lady members all around the province,
the world, uh, the country and, um, just try it right. And if you can
try it with a friend, even better, even better, even better, right.
Because when you're in it together and
you can share your highs and lows, right. Um, and then celebrate it afterwards
with a drink or whatever it is, dinner and whatever. Right. Make
it. So it's very social. Absolutely. And if you want it to be competitive,
you can make it competitive, great point. Yeah. Absolutely. Anything else you would like to
share or I think that's it. I mean, you and I, as instructors
and coaches and mentors, I would say are just really
out here to encourage leaders, to try anyone juniors ladies, men's men out here to just try the
game and get better and find your joy and at whatever level you're at.
And we will end with everyone's welcome. Not only just one person
or a certain type of group, everyone is welcome to come and
try the game. Yep. Absolutely. Well, thank you so much. This was amazing. You're welcome women that
were out here were amazing. They were having a fantastic look. I knew them from like years
ago and I just met them. So that just speaks to how you're keeping
it all together and working really hard to bring the women together to
have a good time. So thanks for that. You're welcome. And thanks for
your time. Thanks for coming over. Thanks for visiting as always. If you have
any questions at all, leave it in the comments
below in the description. I'll have the link to the
predator Ridge golf course, and a few little tips of things maybe
to bring with you like bug spray, make sure to bring your
sunscreen. If you have a hat, make sure to wear it as you
can see, I have my sunglasses.
See you next time. We're on the fifth hole, a predator
Ridge and a cute little deer. There's coffee in the forest. I hope I crushed my drive,
so I don't hit the poor deer..