Team of Brown & Henry Lead After Round One of the The Ratliff Group & O’Brien Architects Pro-Pro Championship
Taylor Coffelt • August 31, 2020
RICHARDSON, Texas
– After Round One of The Ratliff Group & O’Brien Architects Pro-Pro Championship, the team of Christopher Brown and J.J. Henry is in the lead. With a bogey-free round, 9 birdies and one eagle, Brown and Henry carded an impressive 11-under-par, 61, for the day. Brown and Henry are PGA Members who spend their working days on the PGA TOUR. Brown caddies throughout the season, and Henry has been playing on TOUR since 2001.
Sitting three shots back of the leaders is the father-son duo of Greg and Jon Antunes. Greg, PGA Life Member, and Jon, PGA director of instruction at Heart of Texas Golf Academy, finished their day with no bogeys, as well as three birdies and two eagles, for a round of 8-under-par, 64. They will tee off tomorrow with Brown and Henry at 10:05 a.m. off of hole #1.
Again this year, the Championship has a Senior Division, with 14 of the 58 participating teams paired together who are aged 50 or older. These teams are competing for a separate $7,850 purse and playing at modified yardages. Brothers Dick and Jack Goetz, PGA Life Members, currently sit atop the Senior Division Leaderboard at 9-under-par, 63. They will tee off tomorrow at 8:45 p.m. off of hole #10.
The Four-Ball Stroke Play Northern Texas PGA major championship features a field of 58 two-person teams comprised of PGA Members and Associates competing at Sherrill Park Golf Course - Course #1, a par 72, 7,031-yard facility located in Richardson. The Open Division is competing for $24,900 of the $35,000 overall Championship purse.
Due to impending inclement weather, Round Two of The Ratliff Group & O’Brien Architects Pro-Pro Championship will begin with a double tee start off of holes #1 and #10. Tee times run from 7:45 a.m. to 10:05 a.m.
The Ratliff Group & O’Brien Architects Pro-Pro Championship is presented by Adventures In Golf, AT&T Byron Nelson, Callaway Golf, Columbia Golf, E-Z-GO, Golf ScoreCards, Inc., Lorente Golf, and Perry Weather.
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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