Four colleges come to Twin Warriors to take part in the 2024 NB3 Collegiate Match Play on Tuesday afternoon.
College golf is center stage on Tuesday afternoon in the first day of the 2-24 NB3 Collegiate Match Play event. The two-day, nationally broadcast NB3 Matchplay event starts Tuesday morning at Twin Warriors. The event pits four college golf programs — men’s and women’s teams from the University of New Mexico, New Mexico State, Stanford and Texas. It was intentionally scheduled this week with the start of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta with the hopes of it being an advertisement for New Mexico with a big time, national sporting event on the ground and a picturesque international tradition in the sky.
The Golf Channel will be broadcasting six hours of the event Tuesday and Wednesday with analysts Ryan Burr and Begay, at least when Begay isn’t wearing one of the several dozen other hats he had to don — including as a welcoming host to Pueblo dignitaries, the four schools, viewers at home and to the fans from around New Mexico he hopes come out to support the event, even if they have no rooting interest.
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Game Date: Oct. 7, 2024
Game Time: 5:30 p.m. ET
TV: The Golf Channel
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Notah Begay III is the brainchild behind this new event. “I just tried to find a way to basically utilize my various platforms,” he said in describing the roots of this week’s first-of-its-kind college golf event. “I play golf at the highest level, I’m in broadcast television and I care deeply about New Mexico. This was just a convergence of all those things.
“The primary roadblocks that you find in our state, I find, is that there’s a culture of not believing we can achieve. I wholeheartedly believe in the people of the state, especially our youth. I’ll do everything I can to provide as much opportunity as I can through my nonprofit work, through the support of educational systems, through putting together events like this.
“And with everything that’s happening in the world and social media, we as the consumers of content, sort of overlook things from time to time. And I just don’t want people to overlook the fact that we have a wonderful thing happening next week, and just to come be a part of it.”
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