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View Latest Version Here. Notah Begay III 01072021 This transcript was exported on Jan 07, 2021 - view latest version here. Tom Cade: Hello, this is Pod for the Course, and I'm Tom Cade, the Senior Director of Communications for Washington Golf. And today we have with us Notah Begay III. Notah is a former PGA Tour player with four wins on the PGA Tour. He has been a TV broadcaster/commentator on tournaments on TV. He most recently and probably most significantly conducts the Notah Begay III Junior Golf National Championship. And Notah, we are happy to have you on with us today. Notah Begay III: Oh, thanks, Tom. It's great to be on. I love that part of the country. I don't get up there very often. So this is a great chance for me to just kind of interact and engage with you and hopefully share some great stories that people would be entertained with. Tom Cade: Before we get into some of the significant initiatives you're doing right now, I'd like to maybe get some more background about yourself. And specifically for yourself, I see that you were born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. How did it happen for you to get into the game of golf, Notah? How did that happen? Notah Begay III: Well, as the first and only full-blooded American Indian to ever play on the PGA Tour and ever win on the PGA Tour, it was a pretty challenging road, so to speak. I'm half Navajo, one quarter San Felipe, and one quarter Isleta. Those are all primarily New Mexico tribes. The Navajo Nation does go into parts of Arizona and Utah as well, but has a big chunk of its reservation in New Mexico. Much of my family still live in and on the reservation, and so I travel back to them quite a bit. So looking at that pathway from the poorest and some of the most desperate communities in the United States to a life of private jets and multimillion-dollar contracts on the PGA Tour, if you can imagine, is quite an interesting road. But I had a lot of people that supported me along the way. Got first interested in the game of golf through my father, who was not a very good golfer at all, but saw enough in me. I had enough interest for him to continue to encourage me to pursue it. I certainly couldn't afford to play the game on a regular basis. And after about a year of saving up money and recycling cans when that was the thing back in the early '80s, I finally decided to wait outside in the parking lot of my local municipal golf course called Ladera Golf Course. I waited out there one night for the head pro, whose name was Don Zamora, to walk out to his car. And he sees me leaning against his car, and I introduced myself and asked for a job. I told him before he answered to understand that he didn't have to pay me any money. I was a bad negotiator. All he had to do was allow me to practice and play for free, and I would work in the mornings and the evenings for him. At that point, I was nine years old. So from the time I was nine to the time I was 17 and went away to college, I would work at Ladera. I'd show up at 5:00 in the morning. I'd work til about 7:00, 7:30, sweeping, cleaning bathrooms, emptying trash cans, taking range buckets, filling those buckets with range balls to be sold Notah Begay III 01072021 (Completed 01/07/21) Page 1 of 9 Transcript by Rev.com This transcript was exported on Jan 07, 2021 - view latest version here. that day. And then about 7:30, 8:00, they'd release me. I'd practice from about 8:00am until 6:00pm nonstop, and then I'd help close the shop down. I did that regularly. And by the time I was 17, I had become the No. 1 junior golfer in the United States and had earned a scholarship to Stanford University, and that was my pathway to playing golf at an elite level. Tom Cade: That's a significant jump to go to Stanford on scholarship from that beginning. Notah Begay III: Yeah. It certainly was, and I had coaches that volunteered. We passed the hat to get me to certain tournaments. I didn't play a lot of what they classify now as AJGA events. They were just simply a little bit out of my reach. I played a handful of them that were... There was a couple in Arizona I played and one in Denver, but they were just a little bit too expensive for me at the time to be able to pursue that. So I stuck to USGA qualifyings, an event called the Big I Insurance Youth Golf Classic, and the PGA of America events, along with local, state events and things like that. So I made it work. It wasn't certainly what you would call an ideal pathway to collegiate golf, but it was certainly something that I paid my dues and put my time in and sort of earned my right to play at a school. Tom Cade: Well, it became quite a significant experience at Stanford itself. What year was it? What year did you win the national championship as a team? Notah Begay III: Yeah, we won the national championship in 1994. And at the time, we had four juniors and one senior. Our senior was our fifth man, a guy named Brad Lanning. He graduated. We replaced Brad with Tiger Woods in 1995. And we were the, basically the consensus No. 1-ranked team in the nation most of the year. We went back and forth with Oklahoma State, and we ended up finishing second that year. After over 1,100 strokes in the national championship at the Scarlet Course at Ohio State, both Stanford and Oklahoma State tied, and so we went into a playoff. They beat us. And it's one thing that I never let Tiger forget, is that he made us worse when he joined the team because without him, we won. And then with him, we finished second. Tom Cade: Yeah. Notah Begay III: But he likes to blame that on me, too. So it's kind of a back-and-forth that we have that's kind of fun. Tom Cade: Nice. Okay. What year did you graduate from Stanford? What was your last year there? Notah Begay III: I graduated in 1995 with a degree in economics, and I had zero intention of ever using that degree because I wanted to play professional golf, and then went out and played the mini-tours for a couple of years. Missed the Q School initially my first two tries. My third year, I got to the final. I finished dead last at the Qualifying School in Florida, but that earned me conditional status on the Korn Notah Begay III 01072021 (Completed 01/07/21) Page 2 of 9 Transcript by Rev.com This transcript was exported on Jan 07, 2021 - view latest version here. Ferry Tour in 1998. I went out. Within the first seven events, I made one cut, which moved me up in my category ranking. So then I was then able to play 22 events the remaining part of the year, and finished 10th on the money list and thus earned my ticket to the PGA Tour for 1999. And went up and struggled. I struggled quite a bit. I was making cuts, but finishing 55th, 65th, 45th. And then I ran into Seve Ballesteros in the physio trailer. He was working out, and I was working out. Obviously, he's a legend, someone that I looked up to my whole life. And it was tough for me to even muster up enough courage to say hi, being a rookie and he's a Hall of Famer and major champion. But I walked up and introduced myself, and he said, "How's your year going?" And I said, "Oh, it's okay. Not great. I'm making a lot of cuts, but I'm not doing anything on the weekend." He looked at me dead in the eye, and he just says, "You know what? You have to start somewhere." And that stuck with me because I looked at it as an element of encouragement from him saying, "You know what? You're doing a lot of things right to be making cuts on the PGA tour, and something just needs to fall in place." And I had a great run. About two months later at the... It was called the Buick Invitational, I believe. And that was at that old course in Warwick Hills just outside Detroit. I moved all the way up to the leaderboard. I think I was leading the tournament at one time and then saw my name at the top of the leaderboard. And I absolutely panicked and dropped all the way down the leaderboard and almost missed the cut. And then it was about a month later that I won my first PGA Tour event in Reno and then followed that up seven weeks later with another win my rookie year. So ended up winning two events my rookie year and got my career off to a great start after a successful and very happy career at Stanford.
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