DIn 1998, Notah Begay shot a 59 in the second round of the Nike Tour Dominion Open, to join the handful of golfers to ever shoot a 59 in a professional tournament. He placed tenth on the Nike Tour money list that year, earning a place on the PGA Tour for 1999. He had a pair of wins in each of his first two seasons on the Tour. 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 theNationwide Tour. At the end of 2006, he successfully earned a card for the European Tour from their qualifying school. In December 2008, he regained his playing card for the 2009 PGA Tour season at Q-school. In January 2000, Begay was arrested for what, he admitted in court, was actually his second DUI incident. In this second incident, he drove into a parked car while leaving a bar in Albuquerque and was subsequently arrested. Begay was sentenced to 364 days in jail with all but seven days were suspended. Begay has been featured in the top 20 of the Official World Golf Rankings. "
