Paul Levy
New York, United States:
Paul Levy has been elected the 40th President of the PGA of America.
Levy is President of Club Operations and Development for Sunrise Company, and also is the CEO and General Manager at Toscana Country Club.
Prior to being elected PGA President Friday at the association’s 100th Annual Meeting, Levy served as PGA Vice President and PGA Secretary.
Now a member of the Southern California PGA Section, he is the fourth person from the Section to ascend to PGA President, following
Joe Novak (1949-1951),
Pat Reilly (1989-1990) and
Tom Addis III (1995-1996).
Levy previously was president of the Southern Texas PGA Section from 1998-2000, and earned the 2000 Southern Texas PGA Golf Professional of the Year Award. He is a three-time Southern Texas Section PGA Junior Golf Leader recipient; the 1999 Section Bill Strausbaugh Award winner; and the 1997 Section Merchandiser of the Year for Public Facilities.
Succeeding Levy as Vice President is
Suzy Whaley, who served the past two years as Secretary. Whaley is the first woman to be elected as an Officer of the association.
Jim Richerson was elected to succeed Whaley as PGA Secretary. A former member of the PGA Board of Directors, Richerson is General Manager and Group Director of Golf at Whistling Straits and Blackwolf Run.
Also,
Derek Sprague, who served as the 39th PGA President, assumes the role of PGA Honorary President. He succeeds
Allen Wronowski, who completed his second two-year term.
In addition, six new members of the PGA Board of Directors and one Independent Director were sworn in:
Noel Gebauer;
Tom Henderson;
John Lindert;
Kelly Williams;
Patrick Richardson;
Don Rea and Independent Director
Christopher Liedel, President of Smithsonian Enterprises.
The PGA Board of Directors is composed of the association’s President, Vice President, Secretary, Honorary President and 17 Directors. The Directors include representatives from each of the PGA’s 14 districts, two Independent Directors and a member of the PGA Tour. New District Directors are elected by their representative PGA Sections.
