MGA Closing Day Stableford — Sunday, November 1st
Sign-ups are now open for the final MGA tournament of the season, our Closing Day Stableford, which is set to be played Sunday, November 1st with a 9:30 AM shotgun start.
Please note that this is a one-day tournament on Sunday, so everyone can enjoy their Halloween festivities.
We’ll have both Gross and Net divisions and use the standard Stableford scoring breakdown:
MGA Closing Day Stableford: Sunday, November 1st — 9:30 AM shotgun start Online Registration Portal: https://mga.golf/MGA-Closing-Day-Stableford Registration Deadline: Thursday, October 29th @ 8:00 PM
⛳️ A Weekend of Camaraderie and Competition — Thank You NGC!
Over the weekend, we played the 2026 Stearns Cup, adding another memorable chapter to a cherished NGC tradition! Rain forced us to postpone our first attempt and threatened us again, but by Sunday afternoon, sunshine and the spirit of camaraderie at the heart of this tournament were both in abundance.
A huge round of thank yous to everyone who helped make the weekend such a success.
First, thank you to Steve, our superintendent, and his crew for their incredible work getting the course ready to play. Steve’s expertise and his team’s diligence on tournament mornings make such a meaningful difference. It’s amazing to see how much the course has improved in just a few short weeks. We’re excited by the progress we’ve seen and the direction the course is headed as we look toward next season!
Thank you to Tiffany, Ryan, and Danny for everything they do — on tournament days and every day — to keep things organized and running smoothly around the Pro Shop. And thank you to Christine, the heartbeat of NGC, for doing it all around the club, including keeping everyone refreshed with the beverage cart on Sunday!
Thank you to Meilani for thoughtfully coordinating with the Stearns family and for her amazing work showcasing our champions in the Pro Shop. Having Mr. Stearns’s two grandsons at the club to hit ceremonial tee shots in his honor was truly special.
Thank you to Scotty Kimmel for sharing the history behind this tournament and for being an NGC legend in his own right! And thank you to Chuck for the wonderful photos that will help these memories live on long after the weekend.
To all those who’ve continued to show up for NGC through the ups and downs, thank you. It’s this group coming together for the tournament and throughout the year that makes NGC special.
And finally, thank you to Mr. Stearns. Your legacy at NGC lives on in the spirit of competition and camaraderie we share, and in the love of the game that brings us together. Your impact reaches far beyond our club — from your family and the NGC community to the Ryder Cup and the highest levels of competition at the USGA. Your legacy is imprinted on the game we all love.
Tournament Results 🏆
When it came to the golf, competition and camaraderie ruled the weekend and, as always, the tournament reminded us just how much fun team golf truly is!
In the net division, two teams tied at 12 under to share the championship, both putting together stellar performances. The Mulligan Kings—Viktor Grinev & Mike Reynard—closed with a remarkable 6-under-net run over their final six holes, moving from -6 to -12 and added their names to the Cup for the third time. Meanwhile, Beer Pressure—Matt Nolan & Matt Doherty—put on a master class in ham-and-egg teamwork. Highlights included a tremendously clutch par save by Matt D. on the 34th hole of the weekend followed by a beautiful gross birdie by Matt N. on the 35th to secure the tie at -12. Fantastic playing, gents — enjoy your year with the Cup!
On the gross side, James Hsiao & Weston Happ completed the drive for five, finishing the weekend at a fitting 5-under par. We’re not sure whether their Stearns Cup win total has anything to do with the size of James’s family, but having the kids there on Sunday afternoon has become a very special part of the tradition — along with the incredible signs they make every year!*
Men’s Night 10/15 + 10/16 — 1-or-2-Man Scramble All Red Tees Front 9
For some excitement last week, we played our 1-or-2-Man Scramble format from the red tees on the Front 9. And to take the excitement to a maximum, we ended up with a three-way tie among the top three players in this year’s Points Chase. With all three coming in with net 31s, we’re truly in store for an epic finish to the Chase this season. Well played to Chuck Roster, Leo Goff, and Jim Sussmann on scrambling to a shared W!
Extended Men’s Night 10/7-10/16 — Tee Ladder Stableford Back 9
Our final Tee Ladder of 2026 wrapped up with some strong scores on the Back 9. Jim Sussmann led the gross leaderboard with 17 Stableford points, while Jim Prendergast, Chuck Roster, and Ed Clarke shared first on the net leaderboard with 17 points apiece. Well played, gents!
Great job, everyone, for sticking with us through this morning’s weather and taking part in a special tournament made possible by Mr. Stearns’s tremendous legacy. It was awesome to have his grandsons at NGC and watch them hit some stellar ceremonial tee shots on #1. And thank you again to our maintenance staff for working hard to get the course playable. Having a team in place that can make this happen on tournament mornings is a real game changer!
Attached are the pairings for tomorrow’s Round 2, which will begin with a 10:30 AM shotgun start.
Here are the leaderboard links for gross and net scoring, along with skins:
Attached you’ll find the groups + starting holes for tomorrow’s first round of the 2026 Stearns Cup which is set for a 9:30 AM shotgun start. After consulting with our superintendent, and with the possibility of the season’s first frost Sunday morning, we’re moving Sunday’s start time to 10:30 AM. This change applies to Sunday, October 18th only. Saturday’s 9:30 AM shotgun start remains as scheduled. Additionally, you’ll find the Tournament Rules Sheet which includes the general MGA Tee locations for Saturday & Sunday.
Gross & Net Team Skins — One $60 payment per team: For any teams who would like to enter the optional gross and net skins game, we will be collecting one payment of $60 per team which must be sent before we tee off on Saturday. This $60 payment will enter your team into the skins pot for both Saturday and Sunday, gross and net. Please send skins payment and include your team name to @Weston-Happ on Venmo: https://venmo.com/u/Weston-Happ
Scoring: All tournament scoring will be handled via the NGC App. The app can be found here for iPhone and here for Android. All groups will be pre-loaded into the App. We ask that each team uses the App to track their playing competitors’ scores by selecting their name in the App.
Sunday Start Time Update — 10:30 AM Shotgun Start Sunday Only 🕥
After consulting with our superintendent, and with the possibility of the season’s first frost Sunday morning, we’re moving Sunday’s start time to 10:30 AM. This change applies to Sunday, October 18th only. Saturday’s 9:30 AM shotgun start remains as scheduled.
🏆 Stearns Cup — Team Sign-Ups
The 2026 Stearns Cup is set to be played this Saturday + Sunday, October 17th + 18th, and team sign-ups close tonight at 8:00 PM. All registered teams can be found here. If you can no longer play or need to make a change to an existing team, please email us at [email protected] and we’ll update your entry.
To confirm your team’s sign-up, please double check the online leaderboard here.
The format for Stearns Cup is 2-man teams playing 2-day, 36 hole, best ball with both gross and net divisions. 100% of handicaps apply for net play. Standard MGA tees, with Rule of 75 for gold tee players.
Stearns Cup: Saturday & Sunday, October 17th + 18th — 2-man teams with a 9:30 AM shotgun start on Saturday and a 10:30 AM shotgun start on Sunday — All players must be MGA members Online Registration Portal: https://mga.golf/Stearns-Cup-Sign-Up Team Registration Deadline: Thursday, October 15th @ 8:00 PM
Men’s Night Schedule Update — Tee Ladder Back 9 Extension + 1-or-2-Man Scramble Front 9 ⛳️
Last week’s extended Men’s Night window for our Tee Ladder format on the Back 9 will remain open through Friday 10/16. This week’s Men’s Night — our 1-or-2-Man Scramble on the Front 9 with everyone playing from the red tees — may be played Thursday 10/15 or Friday 10/16.
Men’s Night 10/15 + 10/16 — 1-or-2-Man Scramble All Red Tees on the Front 9 🔴
To have some fun this week, we’ll be playing our 1-or-2-Man Scramble format from the red tees on the Front 9. Competitors may either play solo using the standard 1-Man Scramble format (hitting two shots themselves from each position throughout each hole) or pair up for a traditional 2-Man Scramble (each teammate hits one shot from each position).
1-Man Format: You hit two shots off the tee and choose the best one. From there, you again hit two shots, choose the best, and repeat until the hole is completed.
2-Man Format: Players team up and each teammate hits one shot from every position. Choose the best shot and both players hit from there, continuing until the hole is finished. For 2-Man teams, please mark your scorecard with both players’ names on a single line (e.g. “B. Jones / B. Hogan”) and record your gross scramble score.
Please turn in all completed cards to the Pro Shop with gross scramble scores and names clearly marked. Net scores will be calculated using 50% of each player’s Red Tee Front 9 course handicap, with 50% of the average handicap used for 2-man teams. Low net score wins!
Competition Rules for 1-or-2-Man Scramble All Red Tees on the Front 9 — 10/15 + 10/16
For this week, all Men’s Night competitors play the Front 9 with our 1-or-2-Man Scramble All Red Tees format. 50% of Front 9 course handicaps will be used to calculate net scores. Points Chase points will be awarded to the top one-third of the field.
Men’s Night rounds may be played at any time on Thursday with an accompanying MGA member. Please record gross scores for all holes on scorecards with names clearly marked and turn in completed cards to the Pro Shop.
With the nature of our 1-or-2-Man Scramble format, we will be playing lift, clean, and place EVERYWHERE for all shots including within penalty areas, 1-club length, no closer to the hole. RAKE and PLACE for all BUNKERS. If your ball ends up in a bunker, you may lift, clean, rake and place within the bunker, no closer to the hole.
Balls marked on the green may be replaced to the side of any “Dollar Spot”, dead patches, “Crabgrass” weed patches, and/or fungus/disease, no closer to the hole. Additionally, “Dollar Spot” areas, dead/diseased patches, or “Crabgrass” weed patches on the green may be considered Ground Under Repair from which putting-line relief may be taken, no closer to the hole. The maximum relief distance for putting green relief is one club-length from the current ball position on the green.
Bare areas larger than one club-length in your own fairway (or connected to your own fairway), bare areas immediately adjacent to cart paths, and tire tracks should be considered Ground Under Repair. DROP within one club-length of the nearest point of relief, no closer to the hole. Additionally, netting in re-sodded areas, drain trenches, and exposed rocks added as topper for drainage systems should be considered Ground Under Repair from which free relief may be taken, no closer to the hole.
Tall grass and unmaintained sections of the course may be played as penalty areas. These areas include: the hill between the cart paths for the 4th and 5th holes, right of the 7th hole fairway, the hill between the 7th and 8th holes, surrounding the back and left of the 11th green, right of the 13th fairway and surrounding the 13th green, right of the cart path on the 14th hole, on the hill between the 14th and 16th holes, right of the 15th hole and surrounding the 15th green. In the case you do not find your ball in these areas, follow the standard red penalty area dropping procedure.
Any player who does not meet the MGA 2-in-30 handicap posting policy or has not submitted a written appeal for exemption prior to play to [email protected] if they are unable to meet the requirement, will automatically play as a 0 handicap for Men’s Night.
This week’s 1-or-2-Man Scramble format is NOT valid for handicap posting purposes.
Upcoming MGA Schedule
October 7th-16th — Extended Men’s Night: Tee Ladder on the Back 9
Players may play their Men’s Night rounds Wednesday 10/7 through Friday 10/16
October 15th + 16th — Men’s Night: 1-or-2-Man Scramble All Red Tees on the Front 9
October 17th + 18th — Rescheduled 2026 Stearns Cup
Team sign-ups close 10/15 @ 8:00 PM — please let us know at [email protected] if you can no longer play or need to make a change to an existing team
October 22nd — Men’s Night: Chicago on the Back 9
October 29th — Final Men’s Night: E9 on the Front 9
E9 team scramble starting on #1 @ 4:00 PM for all players
November 1st — MGA Closing Day Stableford Tournament
Men’s Night Schedule Update — Tee Ladder Back 9 Extension + 1-or-2-Man Scramble Front 9
Last week’s extended Men’s Night window for our Tee Ladder format on the Back 9 will remain open through Friday 10/16. This week’s Men’s Night — our 1-or-2-Man Scramble on the Front 9 with everyone playing from the red tees — may be played Thursday 10/15 or Friday 10/16.
🏆 Stearns Cup — Team Sign-Ups
The 2026 Stearns Cup is set to be played this Saturday + Sunday, October 17th + 18th, and team sign-ups remain open. All registered teams can be found here. If you can no longer play or need to make a change to an existing team, please email us at [email protected] and we’ll update your entry. Sign-ups will close Thursday, October 15th, at 8:00 PM.
To confirm your team’s sign-up, please double check the online leaderboard here.
The format for Stearns Cup is 2-man teams playing 2-day, 36 hole, best ball with both gross and net divisions. 100% of handicaps apply for net play. Standard MGA tees, with Rule of 75 for gold tee players.
Stearns Cup: Saturday & Sunday, October 17th + 18th — 2-man teams with a 9:30 AM shotgun start each day — All players must be MGA members Online Registration Portal: https://mga.golf/Stearns-Cup-Sign-Up Team Registration Deadline: Thursday, October 15th @ 8:00 PM
Upcoming MGA Schedule
October 7th-16th — Extended Men’s Night: Tee Ladder on the Back 9
Players may play their Men’s Night rounds Wednesday 10/7 through Friday 10/16
October 15th + 16th — Men’s Night: 1-or-2-Man Scramble All Red Tees on the Front 9
October 17th + 18th — Rescheduled 2026 Stearns Cup
Team sign-ups close 10/15 @ 8:00 PM — please let us know at [email protected] if you can no longer play or need to make a change to an existing team
October 22nd — Men’s Night: Chicago on the Back 9
October 29th — Final Men’s Night: E9 on the Front 9
E9 team scramble starting on #1 @ 4:00 PM for all players
November 1st — MGA Closing Day Stableford Tournament
Men’s Night Schedule Update — Tee Ladder Back 9 Extension + 1-or-2-Man Scramble Front 9
With the course closed for the past two days, last week’s extended Men’s Night window will now remain open through Friday 10/16. This week’s Men’s Night — our 1-or-2-Man Scramble on the Front 9, with everyone playing from the red tees — may be played Thursday 10/15 or Friday 10/16.
Extended Men’s Night 10/7 through 10/16— Tee Ladder on the Back 9
Submissions for our Tee Ladder format on the Back 9 continue through Friday 10/16. The complete competition rules can be found here. Here’s how it works:
All players start on the Red Tees for Hole #10. If you make a gross par or better on a hole, you move up the tee ladder for the next hole:
The “tee ladder” progresses from Red Tees → Gold Tees → White Tees → Blue Tees
If you make a gross bogey or worse, you reset and return to the Red Tees for the next hole.
Progression Example:
Make gross bogey on Hole #10 → Remain on Red Tees for Hole #11
Make gross par on Hole #11 → Move to Gold Tees on Hole #12
Make gross par again on Hole #12 → Move to White Tees on Hole #13
Make gross bogey on Hole #13 → Return to Red Tees for Hole #14
Make gross birdie on Hole #14 → Move to Gold Tees on Hole #15
and so on…
Rule of 75 Players (age + handicap index ≥ 75): The highest tee you can reach is the White Tees. Even if you continue making par or better, you will not move back to the Blue Tees.
Scoring:
Net scores will be calculated using players’ Back 9 Gold Tee handicaps.
We will have both Gross and Net leaderboards using Stableford scoring:
Gross/Net Double Bogey or higher: 0 points
Gross/Net Bogey: 1 point
Gross/Net Par: 2 points
Gross/Net Birdie: 3 points
Gross/Net Eagle: 4 points, and so on.
Men’s Night 10/15 + 10/16 — 1-or-2-Man Scramble All Red Tees on the Front 9
To have some fun this week, we’ll be playing our 1-or-2-Man Scramble format from the red tees on the Front 9. Competitors may either play solo using the standard 1-Man Scramble format (hitting two shots themselves from each position throughout each hole) or pair up for a traditional 2-Man Scramble (each teammate hits one shot from each position).
1-Man Format: You hit two shots off the tee and choose the best one. From there, you again hit two shots, choose the best, and repeat until the hole is completed.
2-Man Format: Players team up and each teammate hits one shot from every position. Choose the best shot and both players hit from there, continuing until the hole is finished. For 2-Man teams, please mark your scorecard with both players’ names on a single line (e.g. “B. Jones / B. Hogan”) and record your gross scramble score.
Please turn in all completed cards to the Pro Shop with gross scramble scores and names clearly marked. Net scores will be calculated using 50% of each player’s Red Tee Front 9 course handicap, with 50% of the average handicap used for 2-man teams. Low net score wins!
Upcoming MGA Schedule
October 7th-16th — Extended Men’s Night: Tee Ladder on the Back 9
Players may play their Men’s Night rounds Wednesday 10/7 through Friday 10/16
October 15th + 16th — Men’s Night: 1-or-2-Man Scramble All Red Tees on the Front 9
October 17th + 18th — Rescheduled 2026 Stearns Cup
Team sign-ups close 10/15 @ 8:00 PM — please let us know at [email protected] if you can no longer play or need to make a change to an existing team
October 22nd — Men’s Night: Chicago on the Back 9
October 29th — Final Men’s Night: E9 on the Front 9
E9 team scramble starting on #1 @ 4:00 PM for all players
November 1st — MGA Closing Day Stableford Tournament
