Peyton "Beans" Factor

Season 16 • Episode 8

Meet Our People – The Enduring Spirit of the Chickasaw Nation

Peyton Factor, or "Beans" as she's affectionately called, is a 3x Class 3A Oklahoma Girls Golf Individual State Champion taking the sport by storm. After picking up a golf club at the age of three, she was playing competitively by the age of six and now strives to be one of the first American Indians in the LPGA. "It takes a lot of practice," she says. "It takes you losing and realizing it's not the end of the world." Although Peyton plays against the best girls around the world, that doesn't intimidate her. In fact, she says it helps her game get better. For her, golf is the greatest game ever because it teaches life lessons and how to overcome new challenges.

Now she's picked up a new sponsor in Saucy Spoon Baked Beans and on her way to new opportunities playing Division 1 collegiate golf on scholarship for the Jaspers at Manhattan University in New York City. Watch her in Profiles of a Nation to see where her story began.

Peyton "Beans" Factor

EPISODES

John Herrington

Dr. Judy Goforth Parker

Linda Briggs

Neal McCaleb

Mike Larsen

Dr. Jonathan Trent

Brian Campbell

Tom Love

Linda English Weeks

Dr. Debra Vaughn

William Paul

Jay Keel

Jerod Tate

Dr. Tina Cooper

Mike Weatherford

Mason Cole

Dr. Glen Johnson

Jennifer Barnes

Eric Henson

JudyLee Oliva

Kaylea Arnett

Jeannie Barbour

Margaret Roach Wheeler

Shay Buchanan

Dr. Suzanne Van Cooten

Melissa Tartsah Morgan and Vicky Gold

Matthew Neumeyer

Mike Larsen: Chickasaw Elders Series

Dr. Teresa Shavney

Beaulah Shavney

Courtney Parchcorn

Wyas Parker

Dr. Amanda Cobb-Greetham

John Herrington: Chickasaw Determination

Jerod Tate: Chickasaw Classical Music

T.W. Shannon

Daniel Worcester

Kristen Dorsey

Gary Sandefur

Brent Greenwood

Jay and Mike Mitchell

Maya Stewart

Jeremy Wallace

Michael & Tim Cornelius

Dawn Welch

Kristina Kirtley

Joshua Hinson

Rebecca Hatcher Travis

Thelma Chincie Ross

Jeff Carpenter

Chris Anoatubby

Chris Carpenter

Towana Spivey

Tessa Stamile

Harris Penner

Jud Little

Chad Burris

Dr. Traci Morris

Beth Perkins

Chickasaw Youth: Canoe-Kayak Team

Joshua Tingle

Paul C. Moore

Brenda Kingery

Dustin Mater

Brad Scott

Ellen Brooker

Steffani Cochran

Heather Ahtone

Louden Johnson

Zach Garcia

Ryanne Jordan

Benjamin Espinosa

Ezekiel Walker

Nathaniel Thomas

Dallas Sealey

Hailey Nutt

Steve Paniagua

Gerald Brisco