Notah Begay

Began playing golf when he was six. Father played twilight golf with Notah tagging along. He is Half Navajo, one-quarter San Felipe, and one-quarter Isleta.

Putts left or right-handed, depending upon the break of the putt.

Member of the Stanford golf team that won the 1994 NCAA Championship. Shot 62 in the second round, the lowest 18-hole score in the NCAA Championship.

Member of the 1995 Walker Cup team

Member of the 2000 Presidents Cup team

Got on the PGA Tour by finishing 10th on the Korn Ferry Tour money list in 1998. He became the first Korn Ferry Tour player in history to shoot 59 when he fired it in the 2nd round of the Nike Dominion Open. His round included nine birdies and two eagles (one was a hole-in-one), and he shot 27 (9-under) on his second nine.

At the 1998 Lehigh Valley Open, lost a nine-hole playoff to Eric Booker. It's the longest playoff in Nike Tour history. He was the Nike Tour player of the month in September of 1998 when he finished T-14th and T-2nd twice. All of his 12 rounds played that month were par or better.

PGA Tour

Begay had a pair of wins in each of his first two seasons on the Tour. From late September 1999 to early July 2000, a period of just over nine months, Begay recorded four PGA Tour wins, with the third and fourth wins coming in successive weeks. Since then, he has been plagued by back trouble, which has put his future as a professional golfer in doubt. In 2005, he played under a "Major Medical Exemption" with little success. In 2006, he played on the Nationwide Tour. At the end of 2006, he earned a European Tour card from their qualifying school. In December 2008, he regained his playing card for the 2009 PGA Tour season at Q-school.

Begay has been featured in the top 20 of the Official World Golf Rankings. He successfully utilized a unique putting method. Using a putter with playing faces on both the front and back of the head, he putted right-to-left-breaking putts right-handed and left-to-right-breaking putts left-handed. Begay is the first top player to use such a technique and putter.

He has played in 217 PGA Tour events, making 98 cuts with 14 top-ten finishes. He won four times: the 1999 Reno-Tahoe Open, the Michelob Championship at Kingsmill, the 2000 FedEx St. Jude Classic & Canon Greater Hartford Open. His PGA Tour earnings were $5,207,339.

Begay played on the PGA Tour Champions in 2022; his first event finished T-67th at the Constellation Furyk & Friends. Played the next week, finishing T-56th at the SAS Championship.

2023 Notes: He played in 17 PGA Tour Champions events. He was 88th in the Schwab Rankings and 88th on the money list with $103,173. His best finish was T-26th at the Principal Charity Classic.

2024 Notes: Played in 10 PGA Tour Champions events with three top-25 finishes. Was 87th on the Schwab money list with earnings of $128,485. Best finish: T-13th at the Boeing Classic.

2025 Notes: Played in 7 PGA Tour Champions events with one top-10 finish. Was 80th on the Schwab money list with earnings of $175,284. Best finish, T-3rd at the DICK'S Open. This is his best finish since his first PGA Tour Champions start in 2022

Since 2010, Begay has worked for Golf Channel and has been with the NBC Sports Group since 2013.