5 sign-up spots remain for our season-long, NCAA-bracket-style, 2024 MGA Match Play Tournament. The cost to participate is $30 and the bracket will be set via a random draw this Thursday, April 25th. The field will be limited to the first 64 entrants — please sign up using the online registration portal. All players will be responsible for scheduling their own match dates and times in coordination with their opponents once the brackets have been drawn.
To confirm your sign-up, please check the online registration list here.
All participants will need valid handicaps that are active within the GHIN handicap system. Additionally, prior to the start of any given match, competitors must meet the MGA 2-in-30 handicap posting requirement. If a participant does not meet this requirement on the date of a scheduled match, the player who has not posted two 18-hole or combined rounds in the last 30 days will play as scratch (0 handicap) for that day’s match.
Complete information and guidelines for the 2024 MGA Match Play Tournament can be found here: https://mga.golf/match-play/
Registration Deadline: Thursday, April 25th at 5:00 PM Field Size: Limited to 64 players — $30 entry fee Online Registration Portal: https://mga.golf/2024-match-play-sign-up/
Our 2024 edition of the MGA Play It Again tournament is officially in the books and we couldn’t have asked for a more perfect day. A huge thank you goes out to Tiffany, Pete, Rahel, Tsehaye, Christine, Mimi, and all the NGC staff who made the day a tremendous success. Also, we’d like to give a big shout-out to all our new members who were competing in their first MGA event. Here’s to a fantastic season of competition and camaraderie to come!
When it came to the golf, we saw some great scores and hopefully everyone enjoyed a well executed mulligan or two! In the end, with a stellar 7-under 65 which included an eagle on #17, Royce Huffaker captured victory in the gross division. And, in the net division, with a fantastic round that included 6 birdies and 7 mulligans left unused, Viktor Grinev took home the win with a net 53. Well played gentlemen!
For tomorrow, we’ll be playing a gross skins game with scores made using mulligans fully in play. Venmo $20 to @Weston-Happ tonight or tomorrow before you tee off to join the mulliganed skins fun!
Morning Snacks
Bagels, breakfast pastries, and coffee will be provided by the club in the morning before our 9:30 AM shotgun start. We won’t have any organized tournament food after the round.
On a gorgeous day at NGC, we had a fantastic turnout for our 1-Man Scramble challenge and it was great to see a bunch of new MGA members playing their first Men’s Night. In the end, 38 MGAers took to the Front 9 to determine if 2 shots were better than 1 and the answer was a resounding yes! After all the shots were completed, one man walked away with an awesome score of 29. Proving that he was his own best teammate, Will Keyes took home the well deserved victory for his 1st career Men’s Night win — well played sir!
Attached you’ll find the groups + starting holes for tomorrow’s 2024 MGA Play It Again Tournament which will begin with a 9:30 AM shotgun start. Additionally, you’ll find the Tournament Rules Sheet which includes the general MGA Tee locations.
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 groups will be pre-loaded into the App and we ask that each group uses the App to track their group’s scores.
Leaderboard Links (handicaps/mulligans listed in parenthesis):
Sign-ups close tonight at 8:00 PM for our first MGA weekend event of the season, the 2024 Play It Again Tournament, which will be played this Saturday, April 20th with a 9:30 AM shotgun start. All weekend MGA tournaments are open to full and weekday NGC members who have paid their $85 MGA dues for the year.
To confirm your sign-up, double check for your name on the online leaderboard here.
For this tournament, each player’s handicap is used to determine how many mulligans will be allotted during their round. Using their allotted mulligans, each player records their best possible gross score. Net scores will also be calculated by the scoring app for a Net Division. The Rule of 75 (Age + Handicap >= 75) applies for gold tee players. Please sign up using the online registration link.
MGA Play It Again: Saturday, April 20th — 9:30 AM shotgun start Cost: $25 — All players must be MGA Members Online Registration Portal: https://mga.golf/MGA-play-it-again Registration Deadline: Thursday, April 18th @ 8:00 PM
To have some fun this week, we’ll be playing our 1-Man Scramble format on the Front 9. For this individual scramble format, you get 2 shots off the tee and choose the best one, you then get 2 shots from the next position, choose the best, and so on until you have completed the hole. We look forward to seeing some low scores!
Please record gross, individual scramble scores on scorecards with names clearly marked and turn in all completed cards to the Pro Shop. 50% of Front 9 course handicaps apply to calculate net scores — low net score wins.
Men’s Night Groups
Men’s Night rounds may be played at any time on Thursdays with an accompanying MGA member. Men’s Night groups are formed in an impromptu manner with MGA players who arrive around the same time on Thursdays playing together. Most players play their Men’s Night 9-holes around 3PM but we most often have guys playing throughout the day, including some players going off early and some players playing later in the afternoon / early evening. We hope to keep the camaraderie going after Men’s Night rounds this season with poker and/or other shenanigans around the clubhouse!
Competition Rules for Men’s Night 4/18
For this week, all Men’s Night competitors play the Front 9 with our 1-Man Scramble format. 50% of Front 9 course handicaps will be used to calculate net scores. There is no entry fee for Men’s Night this week and only 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. All players play from white tees and Rule of 75 players (Age + Handicap >= 75) may play golds. 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-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. All BUNKERS will be played as GROUND UNDER REPAIR. If your ball ends up in a bunker, you may either rake and place within the bunker or take free relief outside the bunker. To take relief, you must find the nearest point of complete relief outside the bunker and play from within one club-length of that point, no closer to the hole.
Balls marked on the green may be replaced to the side of any aeration holes or “Dollar Spot” fungus/disease, no closer to the hole. Additionally, “Dollar Spot” brown-patch areas on the green larger than 2 feet may be considered Ground Under Repair from which putting-line relief may be taken (as far as necessary), no closer to the hole.
Bare areas larger than one club-length, 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, 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-Man Scramble format is NOT valid for handicap posting purposes.
Upcoming MGA Schedule
April 18th — Men’s Night: 1-Man Scramble on the Front 9
April 20th — MGA Play It Again tournament: Sign-ups close Thursday
April 25th — MGA Match Playsign-up deadline (if not already full)
Sign-ups close tomorrow at 8:00 PM for our first MGA weekend event of the season, the 2024 Play It Again Tournament, which will be played Saturday, April 20th with a 9:30 AM shotgun start. All weekend MGA tournaments are open to full and weekday NGC members who have paid their $85 MGA dues for the year.
To confirm your sign-up, double check for your name on the online leaderboard here.
For this tournament, each player’s handicap is used to determine how many mulligans will be allotted during their round. Using their allotted mulligans, each player records their best possible gross score. Net scores will also be calculated by the scoring app for a Net Division. The Rule of 75 (Age + Handicap >= 75) applies for gold tee players. Please sign up using the online registration link. All participants must meet the MGA 2-in-30 handicap posting policy.
MGA Play It Again: Saturday, April 20th — 9:30 AM shotgun start Cost: $25 — All players must be MGA Members Online Registration Portal: https://mga.golf/MGA-play-it-again Registration Deadline: Thursday, April 18th @ 8:00 PM
To have some fun this week, we’ll be playing our 1-Man Scramble format on the Front 9. For this individual scramble format, you get 2 shots off the tee and choose the best one, you then get 2 shots from the next position, choose the best, and so on until you have completed the hole. We look forward to seeing some low scores!
Please record gross, individual scramble scores on scorecards with names clearly marked and turn in all completed cards to the Pro Shop. 50% of Front 9 course handicaps apply to calculate net scores — low net score wins.
Men’s Night Groups
Men’s Night rounds may be played at any time on Thursdays with an accompanying MGA member. Men’s Night groups are formed in an impromptu manner with MGA players who arrive around the same time on Thursdays playing together. Most players play their Men’s Night 9-holes around 3PM but we most often have guys playing throughout the day, including some players going off early and some players playing later in the afternoon / early evening. We hope to keep the camaraderie going after Men’s Night rounds this season with poker and/or other shenanigans around the clubhouse!
Upcoming MGA Schedule
April 18th — Men’s Night: 1-Man Scramble on the Front 9
April 20th — MGA Play It Again tournament: Sign-ups close Thursday
April 25th — MGA Match Playsign-up deadline (if not already full)
With Scottie slipping on the Green Jacket last night, one of the best golf weeks of the year is in the books. We’d like to, once again, say thank you to all our MGA members who came out on Thursday for our Masters Men’s Night and Champions Dinner as well as to all the MGAers who took part in the spring A-Team matches. On Saturday, the NGC A-Team took to the links both home and away to battle Turf Valley (and the wind!) in the second round of the MSGA State Team Championship. In the end, NGC did not advance out of the round of 32 but collected 6.5 hard fought points. Having proven that we have a lineup that can win matches, we’re very excited for what the summer WMGA A-Team Matches have in store! Look for the next round of A-Team qualifying starting in June.
Men’s Night 4/18 — 1-Man Scramble Front 9
To have some fun and get a bit of a warmup for our Play It Again format on Saturday, we’ll be playing our 1-Man Scramble format on the Front 9. For this format, you get 2 shots off the tee and choose the best one, you then get 2 shots from the next position, choose the best, and so on until you have completed the hole.
Please record gross, individual scramble scores on scorecards with names clearly marked and turn in all completed cards to the Pro Shop. 50% of Front 9 course handicaps apply to calculate net scores — low net score wins.
Play It Again Sign-Ups close Thursday @ 8PM
Sign-ups close in three days for our first MGA weekend event of the season, the 2024 Play It Again Tournament, which will be played Saturday, April 20th with a 9:30 AM shotgun start. All weekend MGA tournaments are open to full and weekday NGC members who have paid their $85 MGA dues for the year.
For this tournament, each player’s handicap is used to determine how many mulligans will be allotted during their round. Using their allotted mulligans, each player records their best possible gross score. Net scores will also be calculated by the scoring app for a Net Division. The Rule of 75 (Age + Handicap >= 75) applies for gold tee players. Please sign up using the online registration link. All participants must meet the MGA 2-in-30 handicap posting policy.
To confirm your sign-up, double check for your name on the online leaderboard here.
MGA Play It Again: Saturday, April 20th — 9:30 AM shotgun start Cost: $25 — All players must be MGA Members Online Registration Portal: https://mga.golf/MGA-play-it-again Registration Deadline: Thursday, April 18th @ 8:00 PM
2024 MGA Match Play Tournament
10 sign-up spots remain for our season-long, NCAA-bracket-style, 2024 MGA Match Play Tournament. The cost to participate is $30 and the bracket will be set via a random draw on Thursday, April 25th. The field will be limited to the first 64 entrants so please sign up ASAP using the online registration portal. All players will be responsible for scheduling their own match dates and times in coordination with their opponents once the brackets have been drawn.
All participants will need valid handicaps that are active within the GHIN handicap system. Additionally, prior to the start of any given match, competitors must meet the MGA 2-in-30 handicap posting requirement. If a participant does not meet this requirement on the date of a scheduled match, the player who has not posted two 18-hole or combined rounds in the last 30 days will play as scratch (0 handicap) for that day’s match.
Complete information and guidelines for the 2024 MGA Match Play Tournament can be found here: https://mga.golf/match-play/
Registration Deadline: Thursday, April 25th at 5:00 PM Field Size: Limited to 64 players — $30 entry fee Online Registration Portal: https://mga.golf/2024-match-play-sign-up/
To confirm your sign-up, please check the online registration list here.
GHIN Handicaps
All Men’s Night play (and MGA tournament play) is with handicaps which means all players will need an active GHIN handicap account. If you do not have a GHIN account, let us know at [email protected] and we’ll help you get one set up with the club. Starting today, April 15th, we will maintain our 2-in-30 posting requirement for 2024. To compete in MGA net competitions with your GHIN handicap, players must maintain 36-holes of posted scores (either full 18 or 9-hole scores) from NGC in the last 30 days. See the “Season Specific Guidelines” within the MGA Handicap Rules & Procedures.
Upcoming MGA Schedule
April 18th — Men’s Night: 1-Man Scramble on the Front 9
April 20th — MGA Play It Again Tournament: Sign-ups now open
April 25th — MGA Match Play sign-up deadline (if not already full)
