Dear Editor,
On Tuesday, August 25, Notah Begay III was honored as the 2026 recipient of the Payne Stewart Award presented by Southern Company during a ceremony at the Tour Championship in Atlanta. The award was created in 2000 after the death of Payne Stewart in a plane crash in October 1999, the year he won the U.S. Open. The award is presented annually to a professional golfer who best exemplifi…