Northern Texas PGA Announces 2020 Texas Joe Black Cup Matches Captain and Levy Cup Co-Captains
Molly Rawlins • April 3, 2020
DALLAS, TX - The Northern Texas PGA is pleased to announce that the captain for the 2020 Texas Joe Black Cup Matches will be Perry Arthur.
This will be Arthur's first time to serve as captain of a Texas Joe Black Cup team after serving as an Assistant Captain twice and having played on the team 12 times. He is fourth on the individual points leaders list for the NTPGA.
David Pilsner, PGA Director of Instruction at Timber Creek Golf Club, will serve as the Southern Texas PGA captain.
The 2020 Texas Joe Black Cup Matches is set to play Monday, November 9 through Tuesday, November 10 at Trinity Forest Golf Club in Dallas. The STPGA leads the overall matches 19-18-2.
The fourth annual Levy Cup Matches will be contested much like the Joe Black Cup Matches. The Levy Cup team will consist of six NTPGA Assistant Members and six NTPGA Senior Members competing against a Southern Texas PGA team composed of the same classifications.
The Southern Texas PGA will play host in 2020 from Monday, November 2 - Tuesday, November 3 at Pine Forest Country Club in Houston, Texas
Serving as NTPGA Co-Captains for the Levy Cup Matches will be Mark Viskozki, PGA director of golf at Tangle Ridge Golf Course, and Thomas Devanna, PGA assistant professional at Tangle Ridge Golf Course. Tim Hobby, PGA Director of Instruction at The Club at Sonterra and Jeff Litwak, PGA Assistant Professional at Lochinvar Golf Club were selected as co-captains for the STPGA.
The Northern Texas PGA is looking forward to retaining the Levy Cup and plans on bringing back the Joe Black Cup to our Section this fall.
About the Texas Joe Black Cup Matches
The Texas Joe Black Cup Matches is an annual competition between the Northern Texas PGA and the Southern Texas PGA Sections. The Ryder Cup-style format features 12 PGA golf professionals from each Section competing in Four-Ball and Foursome Matches the first day followed by Singles Matches the final day. The event was started in 1981 to honor Joe Black, a Snyder native who was completing his first year as President of The PGA of America.
The Levy Cup Matches is an annual competition between the Northern Texas PGA and the Southern Texas PGA Sections. The Matches were created to honor Paul Levy, former President of The PGA of America and longtime STPGA Member. The first Matches were played at Royal Oaks CC in Dallas in 2017. The Ryder Cup style format features six of the top assistant golf professionals and six senior professionals from each Section competing in Four-Ball and Foursome Matches the first day followed by Singles Matches the final day.
About the Northern Texas PGA
The Northern Texas PGA is one of 41 Sections of the PGA of America and its geographic territory includes the State of Texas north of the 31st latitude, or just north of Austin. The Northern Texas PGA is comprised of approximately 850 PGA members and associates employed at more than 300 facilities. The Northern Texas PGA has 16 full-time staff members and is currently headquartered in Dallas. The Northern Texas PGA will be joining the PGA of America national office relocation to Frisco in 2022 with its own state of the art headquarters on the PGA Frisco campus. In addition to managing the day-to-day affairs of the Section, the Northern Texas PGA also operates a non-profit and charitable foundation that focuses on five pillars: junior golf, college scholarships, inclusion, fellowships and military and veterans.
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Irving, Texas (August 25) – The Nelson Golf and Sports Club hosted two Northern Texas PGA Major Championships this week, the Club Car | XXIO Northern Texas Senior PGA Professional Championship and the Lajitas Golf Resort Women’s Section Championship. Clayton Friend claimed the Senior title, and Kim Paez claimed the Women’s title. Kim Paez, PGA Member at Ping Inc., claimed the Lajitas Golf Resort Women’s Section Championship title, carding rounds of 70-72–142. Paez finished the Championship at 2-over-par, winning by four strokes. She began the final round one stroke back of Katie Flinn, director of instruction at Topgolf - Fort Worth, and her 2-over-par final round was enough to come from behind and secure the win. This is Paez’s first victory with the Northern Texas PGA since joining the section in 2025. “I stuck to my game plan this week, which was fairways and greens,” Paez said. “I think I missed only one or two fairways yesterday. I played pretty conservatively, but it paid off in the end.” Reflecting on her final round performance, Paez said, "It was a little bit windier today. It made me calculate a lot more on the tee shots.” It was an up-and-down round for Paez, but she hit her approach on hole 18 to two feet and tapped in for birdie. “The last three holes are pretty gettable, so I just had to remind myself that no matter how the round was going, I was going to have opportunities to close it out at the end.” Next week, September 3-5, Paez joins four other PGA female PGA Teaching, Coaching and Club Professionals from across the country to represent the United States in the fourth Women’s PGA Cup. They will take on Australia, Canada, Great Britain & Ireland, South Africa and Sweden in a 54-hole stroke play format at Carden Park Golf Resort in Chester, Cheshire, United Kingdom. “It is the biggest honor. When I first got my PGA Membership, and I found out about the PGA Cup, it became one of my biggest goals,” said Paez about making the team. “I was constantly checking the rankings, and coming into the KPMG [Women’s PGA Championship] and the LPGA Professionals Championship, I knew I had to lock in and give myself the best chance.” “I am so excited and so proud to represent the Northern Texas PGA as well, so hopefully I make everyone proud,” added Paez. This 36-hole Northern Texas PGA major championship is the fourth of five individual stroke play events that comprise the Woman Player of the Year points standings. The 22-player field competed for a purse of $7,500, and Kim Paez took home $1,050. The Lajitas Golf Resort Women’s Section Championship was presented by A.PUTNAM and XXIO. The Nelson Golf and Sports Club Par: 35-35–70 Women’s Championship Yardage: 5,878 yards