Stankowski Occupies Lead After Round One of the Club Car Northern Texas Senior PGA Professional Championship
Taylor Coffelt • June 15, 2020
Paul Stankowski, PGA Life Member and former PGA TOUR member, sits atop the leaderboard after Round One of the Club Car Northern Texas Senior PGA Professional Championship. He fired a solid 5-under-par 67, carding six birdies and one bogey to open the Championship. Cameron Doan, defending champion and PGA head professional at Preston Trail Golf Club, Rob Shields, PGA Member and Owner of the Winsford Group, and Rick Woodson, PGA teaching professional at Sherrill Park Golf Course, sit one shot behind Stankowski at 4-under-par, 68.
Qualifying for the 32nd Senior PGA Professional Championship is being held in conjunction with the Club Car Northern Texas Senior PGA Professional Championship. Thirty-six (36) professionals of the 58-man field are attempting to qualify this week. The top four professionals, plus the champion if registered for the qualifier, will represent the NTPGA at the National Championship, presented by Cadillac and supported by Golf Channel and John Deere, at PGA Golf Club, Wanamaker & Ryder Courses, in Port St. Lucie, FL on October 15-18. Stankowski is attempting to qualify, as are Doan, Shields and Woodson.
The Senior PGA Professional Championship brings together a field of contestants representing the PGA of America’s 41 nationwide Sections.
The 2020 Club Car Northern Texas Senior PGA Professional Championship, supported by The Golf Channel and John Deere, is a 36-hole stroke play event being contested at Hurricane Creek Country Club, a 6,658-yard, par 72 layout located in Anna, Texas. The field is competing for a projected purse of $9,000.
Round One results here.
Woodson and Schaefer (a) Capture Senior Division
Little Secures Senior Division
Six qualify for Senior PGA Professional Championship
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