“So, I have to brag just a little,” Pam Minick says.

The Las Vegas native, who parlayed a Miss Helldorado title into a career that made her one of the most recognizable names in rodeo, had to postpone this interview by a day. The culprit? A celebrity golf tournament near her ranch outside Fort Worth, Texas.

It was the first time Minick had played in more than a year. She hit a hole in one. Because, of course she did.

The day before, she’d won first place at a horse show in Oklahoma.

“I’m a competitor,” Minick, 72, acknowledges. “From the time I was 9 years old and joined 4-H, the first thing I did was start going to gymkhanas and junior rodeos. I think that’s in someone’s nature. You’re either competitive or you’re not.”

That competitive streak took her all the way to the ProRodeo Hal

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