Scott Masingill
Scott Masingill is successful in two fields – sports and business. He was born and reared in Payette and graduated from PHS in 1969. He received a Degree in Business Administration from Oregon State University in 1973, specializing in Behavior in Organization. He has found his training very important in the career he is now pursuing.
He attributes much of his success to the attitude of the Payette School system and the residents of the town. He emphasized the fact that small town dwellers, ‘live to live, while city folk live in fear, for the most part’. Scott credits his parents and grandparents with having a great influence on him, through their encouraging and positive manners. He can hardly remember when he didn’t play in some game of sports and particularly, golf. He entered competitive golf at thirteen years of age and set a course record at Scotch Pines Golf Course, when he was only fourteen, by shooting a 32 for nine holes. It was not until he was seventeen, that he commenced to learn how to control his concentration and relax at the same time. With this knowledge, he really began winning. Scott won the Idaho State High School Golf Tournament as a Sophomore and again as a Junior. At sixteen, he finished fifth in the National Jaycee Junior Tournament and went on to win the Pack 8 Conference while in college, even though great golfers such as Tom Watson and Craig Stadler were playing against him. When asked why he did not continue into professional golf, he replied, “Golf is fun for me – not a business. An athlete’s body is the most important aspect in any sport and my wrists were giving me trouble. It was best to direct my efforts for making a living in another manner”. Scott played in the NCAA Tournament in Tucson, Arizona, before having extensive surgery performed on both wrists. Although he was deeply concerned about the outcome of his decision, he went to Los Angeles where he was operated on by a world renowned hand surgeon, Dr. Raymond Ashworth, who by the way is also a Payette High School graduate. The operation was so successful, Scott competed in and won four Idaho State Championships, many other amateur tournaments in Idaho, Washing ton and Oregon and last but not least, he qualified for the US Open. For those of you who do not realize what is involved in that accomplishment, think this over. Any golfer in the world, who has a handicap of two strokes or less can attempt to qualify. Of all those, only 4,200 fit the category and only 140 finally are qualified to enter the US Open for they must play their way in tournaments and win, wherever they play. In 1987, he won the Danny Thompson Tournament, which is played at Sun Valley and sponsored by Harmon Killebrew. Last year he came in second to Johnny Bench, the baseball player. At that tournament he chanced to meet Jeffrey Koo, Sr., the owner of the China Trust Bank. Mr. Koo invited Scott to play in the China Trust Cup Invitational played in Taipei, Taiwan. Players from all over the world competed and two years in a row, Scott won that. He quotes his father when he says, “Winners don’t quit”. For ten years, after finishing college, Scott worked at the family owned furniture store, cutting his teeth, so to speak, on all phases of business management. About two years ago, he joined May Trucking Company as a salesman and is now in charge of obtaining accounts and training sales people for that Company. Owned and operated by two men, who also graduated from Payette High School with success stories of their own, May Trucking Company is now the fifth largest irregular trucking company in the nation, with revenues exceeding $50 million yearly. Considering this, you can see Scott Masingill has only one way to go and that is up. |