OTL: Notah Begay's long walk

Contents:

• NOTAH BEGAY | BGRAPHY
• NOTAH BEGAY GOLFER, B, WIKI, AGE, WIFE, STANFORD, TOURNAMENT, SALARY, AND NET WORTH
• NOTAH BEGAY'S DRIVE
• GOLF CHANNEL ANALYST NOTAH BEGAY MA A MONUMENTAL CHANGE TO HIS LIFE AFTER A DNKEN ACCINT AND 7 DAYS JAIL
• AFTER SUFFERG A HEART ATTACK, NOTAH BEGAY IS EAGER TO RETURN TO TV
• Q&A: NOTAH BEGAY III ON SENR GOLF GOALS, WHAT ABOUT TIGER WOODS ANNOYS HIM AND HOW GOOD IS CHARLIE WOODS?
• NOTAH BEGAY
• NOTAH BEGAY III JUNR GOLF NATNAL CHAMPNSHIP
• NOTAH BEGAY III GEARG UP FOR PGA TOUR CHAMPNS
• 'HE MIGHT SURPRISE EVERYBODY': NOTAH BEGAY IS 'FAIRLY CERTA' TIGER WOODS WILL PLAY PNC CHAMPNSHIP AND MAYBE MORE
• TIGER WOODS’ IEND NOTAH BEGAY LEADS NATIVE AMERIN OBY FIGHT
• EMOTNAL NOTAH BEGAY FEARFUL OF RONAVIS IMPACT ON HIS FAY AND ALL NATIVE AMERINS

NOTAH BEGAY | BGRAPHY

Eventually, he began workg as an on-urse reporter for Golf Channel, and NBC Sports' PGA Tour live tournament Ryan Begay III is an analyst at Golf Channel and NBC.

NOTAH BEGAY GOLFER, B, WIKI, AGE, WIFE, STANFORD, TOURNAMENT, SALARY, AND NET WORTH

In 2001, his father, Notah II, told Stanford Magaze that when Begay started gettg reced by Stanford, Begay’s iends believed that he would never get . “To make good on his vow, Begay started gog to school an hour early and stayg late to work wh an English teacher on improvg his verbal skills for the sats, ” said Notah II. Stanford ach Wally Goodw never saw Begay h a golf ball before he signed him, but he did see Begay lead the Amy basketball team to the state champnship as a shootg guard.

NOTAH BEGAY'S DRIVE

“We won the state champnship and then he’s like, well, if this kid’s half as good as he is on the basketball urt, I want him on my golf team, ” Begay told Golf Magaze June 2021.

The former Stanford ach Goodw also said to Stanford Magaze back 2001 that he quickly realized that Begay was extraordary learship and fight and termatn. Begay peted wh and tried to beat teammat such as Tiger Woods, Casey Mart, Brad Lanng, Steve Burdick, and Will Yanagisawa durg his llege was a letter wner 1991, 1992, 1994, and 1995.

GOLF CHANNEL ANALYST NOTAH BEGAY MA A MONUMENTAL CHANGE TO HIS LIFE AFTER A DNKEN ACCINT AND 7 DAYS JAIL

He graduated wh a gree Enomics om Stanford Universy Profsnal Journey Started In 1995After graduatn, Begay subsequently turned profsnal 1995 and joed the Profsnal Golfers’ Associatn (PGA) Tour 1999. Begay is one of only three players (Woods and Phil Mickelson are the others) to w twice his first two years on the Tour and the first man to notch back-to-back tournament victori. Addnally, Begay often works as an analyst on Golf Channel’s Golf Central and is a ntributor to Golf Channel’s verage of the NCAA Golf 2014, Begay was ducted to the Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame for actively workg to benef Native Amerin sce his graduatn om Stanford.

Also Read: Sam Burns - Profsnal Amerin GolferHe Is The Founr Of Notah Begay III Junr Golf Natnal ChampnshipIn 2019, Begay found the Notah Begay III Junr Golf Natnal Champnship (NB3 JGNC). On 30 March 2022, the Prints Cup and the Amerin Junr Golf Associatn announced the return of the Junr Prints Cup wh Begay and South Ai’s Tim Clark as the ptas of the U. As a player was special to reprent my untry at the Prints Cup, so to now be asked to pta the junr team is tly an honor, ” Begay said.

Notah Begay III is a Native Amerin profsnal golfer who is currently workg as an On-urse Reporter for NBC and GOLF Channel.

AFTER SUFFERG A HEART ATTACK, NOTAH BEGAY IS EAGER TO RETURN TO TV

In 2005, Notah started a foundatn by the name, Notah Begay III Foundatn wh the aim of providg health and wellns tn to the Native Amerin youth the form of golf programs and soccer gam. Begay, '94, is one of only three players to w twice each of his first two years on the Tour (Woods and Phil Mickelson are the others) and the first man to notch back-to-back tournament victori sce Woods won six a row 1999 and 2000. Although earngs are the benchmark for asssg performance on the PGA Tour--"the money list" is a proxy for player rankgs--Begay's lnaire stat hasn't monstrably changed his liftyle or his outlook.

Q&A: NOTAH BEGAY III ON SENR GOLF GOALS, WHAT ABOUT TIGER WOODS ANNOYS HIM AND HOW GOOD IS CHARLIE WOODS?

After he was arrted January 2000 for drivg while toxited after htg a parked r outsi an Albuquerque bar, Begay told the judge at the sentencg hearg, "I ma a big mistake, and I want to be held rponsible. One such group was the stunts at Ganado High School on the Navajo rervatn Arizona, where Begay had helped tablish a golf program the year before.

At San Felipe Pueblo, where Begay still participat Christmas Eve ceremoni wh his mother, girls stand behd him and giggle, wantg to touch him. "If you had Tiger and Notah walkg down the street together Albuquerque, I thk people would notice Notah first, " says Wright Zimmerly, the current pro at Lara Golf Course, where Begay learned to play and where a new lobby is beg named his honor. Begay ma wh a lot of work, signifint help, a measure of serendipy and an ner drive he says is a reflectn of arete—the Greek term for the pursu of excellence.

NOTAH BEGAY

One early morng 1983, Lara's new teachg pro, Leo Van Wart, spotted Begay, then about 10, the snack bar playg a vio game. He says he saw Begay a personaly like that of a darevil skateboarr—"somebody who's not aaid to throw himself to space and who's nfint he'll land on his feet, " says Van Wart, now a teachg pro Las Vegas.

NOTAH BEGAY III JUNR GOLF NATNAL CHAMPNSHIP

Unr Van Wart's guidance, Begay spent most of his time on the pchg and puttg greens, velopg the short game that former Stanford ach Wally Goodw says is the bt he has ever seen.

NOTAH BEGAY III GEARG UP FOR PGA TOUR CHAMPNS

Every time Van Wart tght him a grip change or any other technil nuance, Begay practiced 60 tim a day for 30 days, until was send nature. He beme such a domant force the New Mexi Peewee circu—at age 11, he didn't lose a sgle tournament—that other kids' parents would check to see whether Begay was playg before they bothered to sign up their sons.

'HE MIGHT SURPRISE EVERYBODY': NOTAH BEGAY IS 'FAIRLY CERTA' TIGER WOODS WILL PLAY PNC CHAMPNSHIP AND MAYBE MORE

So when he regnized that his son need the petn that natnal tournaments would provi, he borrowed money and wrote postdated checks to pay for b tickets and airfare for Begay, who traveled alone to out-of-state tournaments and slept on the uch of iends of iends of iends. '" To make good on his vow, Begay started gog to school an hour early and stayg late to work wh an English teacher on improvg his verbal skills for the sats. When Begay showed up on the Farm wh his hoop earrgs, his red clay and his unorthodox municipal-urse game, his nventnally traed teammat were fascated.

"Notah was like a ged animal off the tee, " rells Mark Freeland, '94, another former teammate who is now Begay's agent. Wh the arrival of Begay and classmate Casey Mart, Stanford accelerated s transn om has-been program to natnal power. While redshirtg his junr year, Begay began experimentg wh swch-puttg—standg over the ball om eher the right or left si pendg on a putt's break—a technique that he figured uld eventually give him a one-shot-a-round advantage.

Few golfers have tried to master swch-puttg bee requir twice as much practice as well as the strengtheng of the nondomant eye, somethg Begay do by sometim wearg a patch over his right eye when he putts. Begay, Mart and Will Yanigasawa, '95, a junr-llege transfer, joed forc 1994 wh Lanng and Steve Burdick, '95, to w the NCAA champnship.

TIGER WOODS’ IEND NOTAH BEGAY LEADS NATIVE AMERIN OBY FIGHT

In the third round of the tournament, Begay, puttg right- and left-hand, shot a 62, the lowt sre champnship history. ' I was ma to play the PGA Tour bee I'm such a ham, " says Begay, stg on a chair ont of the flickerg 5-by-5 tv screen that domat his livg room.

Hopg to land his ball close enough to the p for an easy birdie putt, Begay manufactured a shot that perfectly monstrated his mastery of the clubface. GolfNotah Begay was arrted twice for DWI and sent to jail the middle of his golf reer, but he hasn't had a drop of alhol sce. After some soul searchg, Begay vowed to make a monumental change to his life, and allowed him to excel golf and his current enavor.

Notah Begay might be more well-known for beg Tiger Woods’ llege roommate at Stanford Universy, but he also had a succsful PGA Tour reer his own right. After his imprsive rookie season on the PGA Tour, Begay jeopardized his reer wh a poor and dangero cisn the followg year.

EMOTNAL NOTAH BEGAY FEARFUL OF RONAVIS IMPACT ON HIS FAY AND ALL NATIVE AMERINS

In January of 2000, Begay was arrted and charged wh aggravated dnken drivg after he stck a parked r the parkg lot of an Albuquerque bar. Sce that cisn, Begay ma lns on the PGA Tour and now serv as one of the most well-known analysts the Golf Channel lp.

The outpourg of ncern when Begay's heart attack was announced April 29 extend beyond Golf Channel and NBC, or the golf world of which he is a part as a mentator, four-time tour wner and former Stanford teammate regnized as big brother of Tiger Woods. The kd words and the iendly give-and-take between llege iends reflects not only their feelgs for one another, but on another level, Begay's work through the Notah Begay III Foundatn. Begay hop to get back to broadstg quickly bee will allow him to return to somethg he do well: helpg people—the kd of acts for which he has a new appreciatn.