Men's Golf Association at NGCCountdown to the 2024 MGA Season…
Having reached the MGA Offseason Equinox (11 weeks down, 11 weeks to go until our 1st Men’s Night — thank you Mr. Doherty for this observation), we thought it was a great time to really start thinking about the 2024 golf season. Attached you’ll find the 2024 MGA Schedule which can always be found on the MGA website at https://mga.golf/schedule/
We are very excited for all that 2024 has in store for the MGA and for NGC as a club!
Another New Year’s Day in the History Books at NGC
The 1st day of the New Year and the 2024 golf season at NGC got off to a fantastic start yesterday with another great edition of the Mike Miller Tournament. In its 12th annual playing as the Mike Miller and with a half century of playings in the history books, the ritual of January 1st golf at NGC is a tradition that we all truly love. Champagne was popped (and used as a tee), cheer (and snowflakes?) filled the air, our shoes got a little wet, and some very good golf was played.
Thank you to all the members, former members, guests, and especially all the NGC staff that made yesterday such a great success. Thank you to Donnee for always being on point with the whistle and to Rahel for documenting all the golf shenanigans. Thank you to Scotty Kimmel for opening the season in style and to Maureen Brady for providing some great NGC history. Thank you to Mimi and all her staff for the great food after the round. And thank you to Tsehaye for embracing the NGC family spirit. We are so excited for what the New Year has in store for the club!
In the Team Net competition, Team 2 — Vivianne Couts, Stephanie Fink, Dave Fink & Naomi Carter — shot a very impressive 53 to capture victory. Well played! And, in the Team Gross competition, it took 3 playoff holes and the team of Clarke’s (likely hungover) Crew — Ed Clarke, Joe Lapan, Scott Redmond & Sam Bowmer — took home the team win just edging out the team off Adam-Andrew-Jared-Ryan.
In the Individual Net competition, Dave Fink carded an impressive 56 to take the win ahead of Kyle VonEnde (60) and Matt Smith (62). And, with 2 players tied after 18 holes at scores of 68 in the Individual Gross battle, Jared Powell took home the victory in a sudden death chip-off beating out Will Keyes.
Congratulations to all our 2024 Mike Miller Champions!
Happy New Year’s Eve NGC!
New Year’s Eve also means the eve of the 2024 Mike Miller Tournament which is set for tomorrow, January 1st — we will be starting with a 9:45 AM champagne tee shot off of #1. Attached you’ll find the tournament rules as well as the starting holes / team sheet for our 10:00 AM shotgun start.
Food will be served in the clubhouse at the conclusion of play and we hope everyone will have a chance to hang out for some post-round camaraderie as we celebrate the New Year!
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.
Leaderboard Links:
Have a great night and we’ll see everyone in the morning!
12th Annual Mike Miller Golf Tournament at NGC
Team sign-ups close tomorrow at 8:00 PM for the Mike Miller golf tournament which is set for this New Year’s Day, January 1st, 2024. Please sign up with your team ASAP so we can finalize our champagne order.
To confirm your team’s registration, please check the online leaderload.
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 12th annual playing of the Mike Miller Tournament. We hope you can join us — all NGC members and guests are welcome!
Please sign up with your team online here.
12th Annual Mike Miller Tournament: Monday, January 1st, 2024 — 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. Women play Red tees, men play White tees, and men who qualify for the Rule of 75 may play Gold tees (age + handicap >= 75) or Rule of 90 (age + handicap >= 90) from Reds.
Cost: $20 entry fee for members (walking) — $45 for guests (with cart)
Online Registration Portal: https://bit.ly/2024-Mike-Miller
Registration Deadline: Friday, December 29th @ 8:00 PM
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!
12th Annual Mike Miller Golf Tournament at NGC
We hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday and that Santa came through with all the new gear for 2024! Team sign-ups continue for the Mike Miller golf tournament which is set for this New Year’s Day, January 1st, 2024. Sign-ups close this Friday, December 29th at 8:00 PM — please sign up with your team ASAP so we can finalize our champagne order.
To confirm your team’s registration, please check the online leaderload.
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 12th annual playing of the Mike Miller Tournament. We hope you can join us — all NGC members and guests are welcome!
Please sign up with your team online here.
12th Annual Mike Miller Tournament: Monday, January 1st, 2024 — 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) — $45 for guests (with cart)
Online Registration Portal: https://bit.ly/2024-Mike-Miller
Registration Deadline: Friday, December 29th @ 8:00 PM
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!
12th Annual Mike Miller Golf Tournament at NGC
Team sign-ups continue for the Mike Miller golf tournament which is set for this New Year’s Day, January 1st, 2024.
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 12th annual playing of the Mike Miller Tournament. We hope you can join us — all NGC members and guests are welcome!
Please sign up with your team online here.
12th Annual Mike Miller Tournament: Monday, January 1st, 2024 — 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) — $45 for guests (with cart)
Online Registration Portal: https://bit.ly/2024-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 leaderload.
Ugly Sweaters, Golf & Joy on a Beautiful Day at NGC
With the 2023 edition of the Ugly Sweater Scramble in the books, a huge thank you goes out to our whole NGC family who came out in force for a spectacular day of sweaters, golf, and cheer. Thank you to Tiffany and Rahel for all their help and for making sure all the fantastic attire from every group was remembered! Thank you to Donnee for keeping us all in line and to his wife for the homemade treats! Thank you to Tsehaye for fully embracing the family spirit that makes NGC the place that we all truly love. Finally, thank you to all our members who made the day one to be remembered! As a group, thanks to the foundations built so many years ago by Blake and Alison Jones, we were able to raise $1,005 to donate directly to the Toys For Tots Foundation.
On the course, we had a very fun and exciting day of reading comprehension and golf action. Birdies, Eagles, Albatrosses, and a Condor(?!) flew while strategies of aiming out of bounds and into the trees were debated. We even had a Hole-In-One on #18 by Monica Gonzales when her kick found the bottom of the cup!
Overall we couldn’t have asked for a better day of pure joy to wrap up the 2023 tournament season. (And we don’t have to wait long for the first tournament of 2024!)
Happy Holidays NGC!
Net Skin #8 – NGC Elves & Co. – Net Eagle
Donnee G, Tsehaye M, Mike Helmer & Steve W.
Skin #18 – Reindeer – Hole-In-One!
Vivianne Couts, Monica “Ace Maker” Gonzales, Margery Gehan & Naomi Carter
T-1st – Scroll Down For Your Team’s Score
Weston Happ, Will Keyes, Dan Ryan & Charlie Green
-17 (55)
T-1st – Ho Ho Ho Holing Birdies
Matt Doherty, Sam Bowmer, Kyle Armstrong & Nathaniel Burgess
-17 (55)
T-1st Net – STOP! You Scrolled Too Far
Kyle VonEnde, Mark Matava, Brad Simonich & Jared Powell
-20 (52 net)
T-1st Net – Yippee Ki Yay, MFs
Jim Prendergast, Matt Nolan, Eric Fleming & John Allman
-20 (52 net)
Frost Delay — Now 10:00 AM Shotgun Start
With the frost delay announcement from NGC, we’ll be starting today’s Ugly Sweater Tournament at 10:00 AM.
See everyone soon!
Toys For Tots Donation
For the Tournament tomorrow, we will be collecting $80 per team which will be divided 50/50 for a cash donation to Toys For Tots and our skins/awards pot. If you’d like to participate as a team in the T4T collection and skins, please send one payment of $80 along with your team name to @Weston-Happ on Venmo. We will NOT be collecting physical toys tomorrow.
Any payment amounts above $80 will go 100% to our Toys For Tots donation and anyone not playing on a team tomorrow who would like to contribute is welcome to!
Let’s raise a bunch for this extremely worthy cause!
Ladies & Gentlemen —
We have reached the eve of our 2023 NGC Ugly Sweater Tournament! The feastivities will start with a 9:30 AM shotgun tomorrow, Saturday December 16th and attached you’ll find the complete rules & formats sheet as well as starting holes for each team.
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 one player from each team uses the App to track their team’s score.
Online Leaderboards:
We look forward to seeing everyone in their best ugly sweaters in the morning!
