The club has asked that all MGA membership status change / update requests be sent to both [email protected] and [email protected] — no action is required if you’d like to keep your same MGA membership status from last season. Is it April yet?!
MGA Membership at NGC
On behalf of the Men’s Golf Association (MGA) at National Golf Club, we’d like to invite you to join the MGA for the upcoming 2025 season. Our $85 yearly membership dues—to be billed February 28th by the club—allow the MGA to conduct organized golf and golf-related social activities for the benefit, pleasure, and recreation of all MGA members. Last year, we had 111 MGA members take part over the course of 9 tournaments and 29 Men’s Nights for a grand total of 1,543 MGA rounds played. Our 2025 Schedule is attached below and with spring around the corner, we are excited for an exceptional 2025 MGA season!
All MGA members who opted into the MGA last season will be signed up in the NGC billing system for 2025 and will be billed at the end of this month. To change your MGA membership status, please contact [email protected] and [email protected] before February 25th.
Starting in April and running through October, the MGA will host eight weekend tournaments as well as a season-long Match Play bracket. While MGA tournaments are generally on weekends, they are open to full as well as weekday members. In addition to weekend tournaments, we conduct a robust program of Men’s Nights held every Thursday. All MGA play includes net divisions with handicaps and the Rule of 75 for gold tee players. More information about the MGA can be found on our website: https://mga.golf/
The MGA is here to enhance your experience at NGC and we are open to more suggestions on sponsored golf or social events. For additional information, questions, or to join our MGA email list for the latest tournament and event updates, send a note to [email protected] — We hope to make 2025 a fantastic year at NGC and hope that you will join the MGA!
Sincerely,
– Your 2025 MGA Board
Weston Happ – MGA Chairman James Hsiao – Vice Chairman Patrick Escalambre – Social Chair Will Keyes – Handicap Chair Mike Reynard – Treasurer Leo Goff – SMGA Representative Members At Large: Tom DePonty Matt Doherty Silas Nichols
With snow coverage and cold temps continuing to linger, we thought it was a good time to switch it up and get thinking about warmer times to come in the upcoming 2025 MGA season! Attached you’ll find the 2025 MGA Schedule which can always be found on the MGA website at https://mga.golf/schedule/
We are very excited for all that 2025 has in store for the MGA and for NGC as a club — here’s to an early spring!
Another New Year’s Day in the History Books at NGC
The first day of the New Year and the start of the 2025 golf season at NGC unfolded in spectacular fashion with another fantastic edition of the Mike Miller Tournament. Now in its 13th annual playing as the Mike Miller and with over half a century of January 1st playings in the history books, this cherished tradition continues to bring joy to our NGC family. Champagne was popped twisted and used as a tee, cheer filled the air, and some outstanding golf was played.
A heartfelt thank you to all the members, former members, guests, and the NGC staff who made yesterday such a success. Special thanks to Donnee for setting the tone with our opening tee shot off #1 and to Tiffany and Rahel for holding down the fort in the pro shop. Thank you to Maureen Brady for sharing such fascinating NGC history. We’re also grateful to Mimi and her team for the food and hospitality and to Yohannes for embracing the NGC golf spirit.
We can’t wait to see what the New Year has in store for the club — here’s to another amazing season ahead!
8 skins @ $120 each Gross: #2 – Chad Horrell (birdie) #4 – Joe Lapan (birdie) #11 – Weston Happ (birdie) Net: #4 – Joe Lapan (net eagle) #6 – Kyle VonEnde (net eagle) #8 – Colin Zoski (net eagle) #15 – Eric Stephens (net eagle) #17 – Travis Henderson (net eagle)
New Year Ladies Gross: 1st – Monica Gonzales (90) – $30 credit book Net: 1st – Susan Dick (71) – $30 credit book
Individual Gross: 1st – Scott Redmond (65) – $30 credit book Net: 1st – Phil Martin (60) – $30 credit book
Team Net 1st – 2025 Bourbon Street (52) – Ron Turner, Eric Stephens, Phil Martin & Daryl Stone – $25 credit book each
Team Gross 1st – Clarke’s Crew (62) – Ed Clarke, Scott Redmond, Joe Lapan & Sam Bowmer – $25 credit book each
New Year’s Eve also means the eve of the 2025 Mike Miller Tournament which is set for tomorrow, January 1st — we will be starting with a 10:20 AM champagne tee shot off of #1. Attached you’ll find the tournament rules as well as the starting holes for our 10:30 AM shotgun start.
Breakfast burritos will be served as part of your tournament entry starting at 9:00 AM.
Tournament Scoring
All tournament scoring will be handled via the NGC App. The app can be found here for iPhone and here for Android. All teams will be pre-loaded into the App and we ask that each team uses the app to track their individual shamble scores.
Skins / Awards Pot
We’ll be playing for Individual Skins both Gross and Net tomorrow. Each player may optionally Venmo $20 to @Weston-Happ to join the 1st skins of 2025 fun!
Our start time has been moved to 10:30 AM for the 2025 edition of the 13th Annual Mike Miller Tournament on Wednesday. We have 83 players signed up so we will be a full course shotgun!
Breakfast burritos will be served as part of your tournament entry starting at 9:00 AM and our traditional champagne 1st tee shot off #1 will commence at 10:20 AM with a group photo.
Team sign-upsclose tonight at 8:00 PM for the 2025 edition of the Mike Miller Tournament!
To confirm your team’s registration, please check the online leaderboard.
A famous line in golf, “A tradition unlike any other,” has been coined for the Masters, but the same can be said for the playing of New Year’s Day golf at National Golf Club. For years, players of all ages and abilities have taken to the course on January 1st to ring in the New Year with a fun 18 holes. There are stories of shoveling the driving range and impromptu get-togethers just to say golf was played on January 1st at NGC.
Mike Miller was an ambassador of the January 1st tradition and would host a party at his home following the event. Mike left us January 24th, 2013 but we continue the tradition in his memory. This year we celebrate the 13th annual playing of the Mike Miller Tournament. We hope you can join us — all NGC members and guests are welcome!
13th Annual Mike Miller Tournament: Wednesday, January 1st, 2025 — 10:00 AM shotgun start with annual champagne tee shot off 1st tee at 9:45 AM Format: 4-Player Shamble — All players in foursome tee off, select the best tee shot to play 2nd shots from and, from the selected tee shot, all players play their own balls into the hole recording individual gross scores. Awards in Net + Gross divisions for both Individual and Team categories. Cost: $20 entry fee for members (walking) — $50 for guests (with cart) Online Registration Portal: https://bit.ly/2025-Mike-Miller
Please sign up online as a complete team foursome if possible. If you do not have a team of 4, sign up online with as many as you have and we will set you up with a group!
Team sign-upsclose tomorrow at 8:00 PM for the 2025 edition of the Mike Miller Tournament!
To confirm your team’s registration, please check the online leaderboard.
A famous line in golf, “A tradition unlike any other,” has been coined for the Masters, but the same can be said for the playing of New Year’s Day golf at National Golf Club. For years, players of all ages and abilities have taken to the course on January 1st to ring in the New Year with a fun 18 holes. There are stories of shoveling the driving range and impromptu get-togethers just to say golf was played on January 1st at NGC.
Mike Miller was an ambassador of the January 1st tradition and would host a party at his home following the event. Mike left us January 24th, 2013 but we continue the tradition in his memory. This year we celebrate the 13th annual playing of the Mike Miller Tournament. We hope you can join us — all NGC members and guests are welcome!
13th Annual Mike Miller Tournament: Wednesday, January 1st, 2025 — 10:00 AM shotgun start with annual champagne tee shot off 1st tee at 9:45 AM Format: 4-Player Shamble — All players in foursome tee off, select the best tee shot to play 2nd shots from and, from the selected tee shot, all players play their own balls into the hole recording individual gross scores. Awards in Net + Gross divisions for both Individual and Team categories. Cost: $20 entry fee for members (walking) — $50 for guests (with cart) Online Registration Portal: https://bit.ly/2025-Mike-Miller
Please sign up online as a complete team foursome if possible. If you do not have a team of 4, sign up online with as many as you have and we will set you up with a group!
On Christmas Eve when we’re all hoping for new clubs under the tree, preparations also continue for our New Year’s Day golf tradition at NGC with team sign-ups ongoing for the 2025 edition of the Mike Miller Tournament!
A famous line in golf, “A tradition unlike any other,” has been coined for the Masters, but the same can be said for the playing of New Year’s Day golf at National Golf Club. For years, players of all ages and abilities have taken to the course on January 1st to ring in the New Year with a fun 18 holes. There are stories of shoveling the driving range and impromptu get-togethers just to say golf was played on January 1st at NGC.
Mike Miller was an ambassador of the January 1st tradition and would host a party at his home following the event. Mike left us January 24th, 2013 but we continue the tradition in his memory. This year we celebrate the 13th annual playing of the Mike Miller Tournament. We hope you can join us — all NGC members and guests are welcome!
13th Annual Mike Miller Tournament: Wednesday, January 1st, 2025 — 10:00 AM shotgun start with annual champagne tee shot off 1st tee at 9:45 AM Format: 4-Player Shamble — All players in foursome tee off, select the best tee shot to play 2nd shots from and, from the selected tee shot, all players play their own balls into the hole recording individual gross scores. Awards in Net + Gross divisions for both Individual and Team categories. Cost: $20 entry fee for members (walking) — $50 for guests (with cart) Online Registration Portal: https://bit.ly/2025-Mike-Miller
Please sign up online as a complete team foursome if possible. If you do not have a team of 4, sign up online with as many as you have and we will set you up with a group!
To confirm your team’s registration, please check the online leaderboard.
As we count down to the Winter Solstice, Yule, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Boxing Day, and Festivus, our preparations also continue for our New Year’s Day golf tradition at NGC with team sign-ups ongoing for the 2025 edition of the Mike Miller Tournament!
A famous line in golf, “A tradition unlike any other,” has been coined for the Masters, but the same can be said for the playing of New Year’s Day golf at National Golf Club. For years, players of all ages and abilities have taken to the course on January 1st to ring in the New Year with a fun 18 holes. There are stories of shoveling the driving range and impromptu get-togethers just to say golf was played on January 1st at NGC.
Mike Miller was an ambassador of the January 1st tradition and would host a party at his home following the event. Mike left us January 24th, 2013 but we continue the tradition in his memory. This year we celebrate the 13th annual playing of the Mike Miller Tournament. We hope you can join us — all NGC members and guests are welcome!
13th Annual Mike Miller Tournament: Wednesday, January 1st, 2025 — 10:00 AM shotgun start with annual champagne tee shot off 1st tee at 9:45 AM Format: 4-Player Shamble — All players in foursome tee off, select the best tee shot to play 2nd shots from and, from the selected tee shot, all players play their own balls into the hole recording individual gross scores. Awards in Net + Gross divisions for both Individual and Team categories. Cost: $20 entry fee for members (walking) — $50 for guests (with cart) Online Registration Portal: https://bit.ly/2025-Mike-Miller Please sign up online as a complete team foursome if possible. If you do not have a team of 4, sign up online with as many as you have and we will set you up with a group!
To confirm your team’s registration, please check the online leaderboard.
A Little History of January 1st Golf at NGC
Longtime NGC member and friend, Maureen Brady, put together and shared the following fantastic writeup which details the history of New Year’s Day golf at NGC:
Today, the Mike Miller Tournament is our way of welcoming the New Year. It’s a very important welcoming too. However, the New Year’s Day Tournament has not always been the Mike Miller Tournament. Yes, Mike played in the tournament many times. However, he played as a “Wet Shoe.” It used to be the “Wet Shoes New Year’s Day Tournament.”
Let me explain:
In the Early 70’s the first group of men to tee off on weekends was known as the “Wet Shoes.” It was a good name. The course was usually still wet that early in the morning, so the name was very appropriate. The group played every weekend, and sponsored a couple tournaments. Their most famous tournament was the New Year’s Day Tournament.
They played it every year. Rain, snow, sleet, sun, had no effect. It was 18 holes, and you played.
There were rules. For example, you had to drink on every hole, or you could not win. Drinks were already on every hole by the time the group teed off.
Originally, ladies were not allowed to play. We ladies provided food in several fairways. For example, I had ham biscuits on the first hole. Carolyn Lecrone had goodies beside the 8th green. Betsy Smith also took care of her hole which was number 10. Eventually, we did get to play, however, not with the men. We started on the back.
Since the kitchen was closed, Frank Bryan, a wet shoe, took care of lunch. He worked for a food service company, and as soon as he finished playing, he went in a warmed up soup, and put out sandwiches.
Mike Miller was a part of this. Not in the early 70’s, but as soon as he became a Tantallon member he joined the wet shoes. And, as time progressed, and we were not allowed to use the club’s kitchen, Mike invited us to lunch at his house.
Some memories still make us smile. Dick Ruane (lived on the 8th green) hit his tee shot on 18 and then walked straight out to the green. Thank God the pond was frozen. When he teed off, Tom Nunno still had on his Tux from the New Year’s Eve party. There was no time to change before teeing off.
I don’t know how many decades the Wet Shoes lasted. Members moved, passed away, or were unable to play golf in their twilight years. However, I am happy that the Mike Miller Memorial Tournament keeps the Wet Shoes’ Tradition going forward.
Happy New Year. Enjoy. Mike is proud of us.
Thank you so much, Maureen — this is the NGC history that we all cherish as we celebrate by playing golf on January 1st!
Team sign-ups continue for the Mike Miller tradition which is back for this New Year’s Day, January 1st, 2025!
A famous line in golf, “A tradition unlike any other,” has been coined for the Masters, but the same can be said for the playing of New Year’s Day golf at National Golf Club. For years, players of all ages and abilities have taken to the course on January 1st to ring in the New Year with a fun 18 holes. There are stories of shoveling the driving range and impromptu get-togethers just to say golf was played on January 1st at NGC.
Mike Miller was an ambassador of the January 1st tradition and would host a party at his home following the event. Mike left us January 24th, 2013 but we continue the tradition in his memory. This year we celebrate the 13th annual playing of the Mike Miller Tournament. We hope you can join us — all NGC members and guests are welcome!
13th Annual Mike Miller Tournament: Wednesday, January 1st, 2025 — 10:00 AM shotgun start with annual champagne tee shot off 1st tee at 9:45 AM Format: 4-Player Shamble — All players in foursome tee off, select the best tee shot to play 2nd shots from and, from the selected tee shot, all players play their own balls into the hole recording individual gross scores. Awards in Net + Gross divisions for both Individual and Team categories. Cost: $20 entry fee for members (walking) — $50 for guests (with cart) Online Registration Portal: https://bit.ly/2025-Mike-Miller Please sign up online as a complete team foursome if possible. If you do not have a team of 4, sign up online with as many as you have and we will set you up with a group!
To confirm your team’s registration, please check the online leaderboard.
