It's not often you get to hear a Ryder Cup captain letting you in on a few ways he plans to help the U.S. end the European domination in that biennial event.

"We lost seven of the last nine Ryder Cups. It breaks my heart. I have a lot of ideas what to do to turn this around," said captain-elect Paul Azinger.

"Zinger" was a thorn in the side of the Europeans as a player. He now wants to do it as a captain in the 2008 Ryder Cup at the Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky.

He was one of several guest speakers lined up by Greg Nichols, Ko Olina's director of golf, for the fifth Aloha Section PGA Golf Conference on Tuesday at the Hawaii Prince Hotel.

Also at the podium were Hawai'i's Dean Wilson and representatives from the PGA of America, the United States Golf Association and the Golf Channel.

But Miki Ueoka, a 17-year-old Kaua'i High School senior who wasn't there, stole the show. Her spirit and love of the game certainly came through in a video she edited and produced that was shown before the speeches began.

Wilson, who's playing in the Sony Open in Hawai'i with Azinger, knows how difficult it is being in front of a camera. The Golf Channel had him doing a few television spots about his native state to promote golf's Aloha Swing.

But after hearing Ueoka's narrative on the video, he was blown away.

"That girl kicked my butt. That video is incredible ... fantastic," said Wilson, a Kane'ohe native who enjoyed a breakthrough 2006 season on the PGA Tour with his first win and more than $2.5 million in earnings.

"She's got a job with the Golf Channel if she wants," added Gene Pizzolato, executive vice president of advertising and new media for the cable network.

Nichols informed Ueoka of the accolades later that afternoon at the King Auto Group Pro-Junior Skills Challenge at the Waialae Country Club.

Wilson had an opportunity to commend her personally. They were partners in the event.

"It was good to meet her. What a coincidence," Wilson said. "I was so impressed. She did such a great job on that video. Maybe if I need a little more experience in front of a microphone and in front of a camera, I'll take some lessons from Miki a little later."

So who is Ueoka and how did the idea of a video come about?

She's one of the top players in the Hawai'i State Junior Golf Association, representing the state this summer nationally in the Callaway Junior World, the U.S. Girls Junior, PGA Westfield and the U.S. Junior Girls' America's Cup.

Ueoka also played with Tiger Woods in the pro-am of the PGA Grand Slam of Golf.

"That was really fun. I was a little nervous at first," she said about her round with Tiger.

She also enjoyed playing with Wilson in the Pro-Junior. "He was really great. He was trying to help us out. You can tell he's really genuine," Ueoka said.

She is accomplished off the golf course as well: A straight-A student at Kaua'i High, who will enroll at Santa Clara University on a golf scholarship in the fall.

It's her poise, voice and camera presence that grab your attention, as it did Wilson, Pizzolato and the others watching the video.

Clearly, she has a future in television. But she'd like to be a doctor someday.

"For right now, I kind of have my plans for the future. But, definitely, it's not final," Ueoka said. "I'm going to go to college and try to see what kind of things I can do. Where golf will take me, my schooling. It's all up in the air right now. I'm just enjoying it as it comes along."

As for the video she put together, it was something she wanted to do for the state junior golf association.

"I wanted to tell what the HSJGA is all about. It's a lot more than just playing golf tournaments and traveling. It's more about creating better people and what the association is all about.

"I was approached to help and I ended up doing it. For me, it was very important to tell the story I knew firsthand. There was so much I wanted to get out, to tell everybody how great our association really is and how much it has helped me with college and everything."

So Ueoka edited footage from all the different tournaments hosted by the HSJGA starting in July at the Club at Hokulia, added the sound, did the interviews and narrated it, ending it all with credits to everyone for their help, including her mom, Linda, who filmed Miki in action, and Rachel De La Cruz.

Miki's dad, Richard Ueoka, was a former star football player at the University of Hawai'i. He played the entire game both ways in UH's 6-0 upset victory over Nebraska in Lincoln in 1955.

Asked how long the video was, she replied without hesitating, "It was 11 minutes and six seconds."

Said Nichols, "We needed a video to show all the great things that happened this year, the accomplishments in junior golf. Miki put the whole thing together. It was a great video and I think it captured the spirit of junior golf."