Notah Begay Worrying About Way More Than A Postponed Golf Season

Tod Leonard on the upsetting revelation from Notah Begay on a Golf Channel conference call Thursday to discuss what would have been in Augusta this week. A Navajo/Pueblo Indian, Begay reported that COVID-19 is wreaking havoc in the Native American community as well, even in New Mexico, a state rarely mentioned as under attack from the virus.

From Leonard’s GolfDigest.com report:

Begay said 75 percent of his relatives live on the reservation. “I’m going to lose some family members; I’m quite certain of it,” he said.

“To these rural areas of this nation … they have zero internet access; they don’t have mobile phone reception; a lot of times they don’t know what’s going on,” Begay said.