Notah's Shoots 67 at Q-school - Tuesday, November 14, 2006

SAN ROQUE, Spain -- The following is an excerpt from EuropeanTour.com, which covered the fourth round of the European Tour Qualifying School where Notah Begay III shot a 5-under 67 and is currently in 4th place at 9-under for the event with two rounds remaining...

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It was Begay's lowest round of the week and the 34 year old, who played for the United States in the Presidents Cup in 2000, admitted he was excited about the prospect of playing full time on The European Tour.

"I gave up the chance to go to the US PGA Tour School when I withdrew my application this week, so you can't get rid of me now! joked the Native American Indian. But my wife and I are excited about coming over and playing over here but I still have some work to do for two days."

Continuing that theme Begay admitted that, although now in with an obvious chance of winning the Qualifying School Final Stage, he refused to think about that prospect until it was a possibility going into the final nine holes on Sunday, a facet of golf he often discussed with his good friend, World Number One Tiger Woods.

"Tiger and I have often talked about, just that you just keep fighting and fighting until the last nine holes of the tournament and if you have a chance then, the game can change a little bit," he said. But right now the most important thing for me is not looking at scoring or qualifying but just looking at doing the best I can possibly do.

"Tiger and I are still very good good friends. We spend a lot of time together in the off season and his wife and my wife have become friends too because we are all the same age so all four of us get on pretty well."

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