Northern Texas PGA Celebrates Award Winners, Conducts 57th Annual Meeting
FORT WORTH, TX – The Northern Texas PGA held their annual Awards Banquet on Sunday, February 2, at River Crest Country Club.
The banquet celebrated the 2024 NTPGA award winners, which included Northern Texas PGA Golf Professional of the Year, the Section's highest award, won by Neil Lockie, PGA director of golf at Dallas National Golf Club. This is the highest honor given annually to a Northern Texas PGA Member, and is awarded for qualities of leadership, strong moral character and a substantial record of service to the NTPGA as well as the game of golf. The complete list of award winners can be found
HERE. Congratulations to all!
On Monday, February 3, the NTPGA staff then conducted a Professional Development Seminar and the 57th Annual Business Meeting at Ridglea Country Club.
The Professional Development Seminar featured keynote speaker Sonny Dykes, head football coach at Texas Christian University. Dykes spoke to the membership in attendance about leadership. “[Leadership] is incredibly diverse in how you define it and how you cultivate it. Leadership is different for all of us. You need to be able to empower those young people and build them up. [It] has to be practiced every day,” said Dykes.
Following the keynote presentation were three small group sessions conducted by Kevin Scott, chief technology officer at PGA of America and Kelly Williams, PGA, general manager at Greenbriar Golf & Country Club who discussed using AI to enhance your communication skills; Trent Newby, social media icon and former Greg Norman sales representative who discussed building your online brand; and a Q&A session with golf course architect Beau Welling.
After lunch, the 57th Annual Meeting consisted of the recognition of many professionals including the playing award winners honoring Spencer Dillard, Rob Shields and Katelyn Sepmoree. The 2025 Eva Williams A.C.E. Scholarship recipients Stephanie Moorberg and Dustin Nelson were also recognized. The meeting included comments from the Northern Texas PGA Past Presidents, current officers as well as from Executive Director, Kelly Gilley, PGA and CEO Mark Harrison.
NTPGA President, Cameron Doan, encouraged the membership to look for opportunities to serve PGA Members and grow the game.
Opportunities like:
- Meet new people and make new friends
- Hang out with old friends
- Play and compete
- Learn and develop
- Serve, volunteer and give back
- Introduce kids to the game – in an environment that they love so much they beg to come back
- Use golf as a social connection vehicle
- Use golf as a therapeutic vehicle
- Let the wider world know what golf can do for people
Finally, Jon Drago, PGA executive director of THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson, and Todd Harbour, PGA general manager at Royal Oaks Country Club, were elected by acclamation as At-Large Directors to the Northern Texas PGA Board of Directors. Drago, Harbour and Abe Hernandez, the newly elected Metro Chapter President, were sworn in. The current Northern Texas PGA Board of Directors can be found
HERE.
Thank you to all of the PGA of America Golf Professionals in our Section who attended these special and important events over the past few days. Our Board and our staff look forward to a successful 2025.
