VIDBE-Q 2025 Volume 70 Issue 4
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Two Girls Wrestling
Golf is another up and coming sport on the reservation, thanks in part to two
PGA golfers, Ricky Fowler and Notah Begay. These Navajo pros have inspired
students on the reservation to embrace golf, with at least one unique Navajo golf
course located in Steamboat, Arizona, embracing "rez golf." Despite not having a golf
course nearby, some high schools on the reservation still have golf teams. Lake
Powell National Golf Course in Page provides the CAFC athletes and their coaches
the opportunity to practice on the range and putting green, and also to get out on the
course and play one hole of best ball on a par three hole. A summer storm rolled in
one year, and the athletes delighted in the rain and wind as they rode in the golf carts
back to the clubhouse.
CAFC hopes to sustain Navajo culture by affording children with visual
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