The 2024 WMGA Summer A-Team matches are set to begin with pool play July 6th, 7th & 13th and we are opening up A-Team qualifying to run from May 31st through June 30th. Please see the attached sheet for qualifying rules and submit all completed A-Team scorecards to the Pro Shop.
A-Team Qualifying Notes:
A-Team qualifier rounds must be played from blue tees and attested by an accompanying MGA member.
Players must check in with the Pro Shop and declare their round as a qualifying round prior to start.
Play the ball DOWN EVERYWHERE and RAKE and PLACE for all bunkers. If your ball ends up in a bunker, you may lift, clean, rake and place within the bunker taking as much relief as necessary to place your ball on a playable bit of sand, no closer to the hole.
On Saturday, Mr. Matt Nolan made a hole in one on #15! And Jim Prendergast captured one of the best walkup videos we’ve ever seen. Well done sir, a 40-year quest complete!
Match Play Round 1 — June 9th Deadline
The deadline for Round 1 matches in the Main Bracket is Sunday, June 9th. Please be in touch with your Round 1 opponent ASAP about scheduling your match if you have not yet set a match date. Contact [email protected] or call the Pro Shop (301) 292-1100 if you need your opponent’s contact information. Thank you to all matches who have played and reported their results. If you do not see your match result listed in the updated online bracket, please let us know the result via email.
For Men’s Night this week, the 1st edition of our 2024 Shootout series is here! For our Shootout format on the Front 9, all players meet on the 1st tee at 4:45 PM — please be a few minutes early (around the range / putting green by 4:30 PM) so we can organize everyone’s Front 9 course handicaps. As a full group (think 25-some), all competitors play #1 together (please mark your ball). The low 9 net scores on #1 progress to the 2nd tee. A chip-off will be used to break any ties for who proceeds to #2 (top 9 low net from #1).
On holes 2-9, we eliminate 1 player with the highest net score on each hole: i.e. 9 competitors play #2, 8 competitors play #3…all the the way down to 2 players on the 9th hole. Chip-offs decide tied-for-high-score holes.
The last man standing after #9 has been played is the Shootout winner.
The deadline for Round 1 matches in the Main Bracket is Sunday, June 9th. Please be in touch with your Round 1 opponent ASAP about scheduling your match if you have not yet set a match date. Contact [email protected] or call the Pro Shop (301) 292-1100 if you need your opponent’s contact information.
Thank you to all matches who have played and reported their results. If you do not see your match result listed in the updated online bracket, please let us know the result via email.
For all scores from this weekend, we ask that all Memorial Cup participants post their own tournament scores to the GHIN handicap system as “Competition” scores from white tees (and as gold tees for our Rule of 75 players) with May 18th / May 19th dates.
All postings will be double checked this week and corrected if necessary by the club.
Our 2024 edition of the Memorial Cup is in the books and, despite the rain on Saturday, we had an outstanding tournament. We’d like to send out a huge thank you to all the maintenance staff, Matt Doherty, and Jim Sussmann for their tremendous efforts squeegeeing the greens on Saturday morning so we could play! Thank you to Donnee for always being there with the whistle to keep us organized, Lauren for keeping the beverage cart rolling, Terry for marking the course, Chuck Roster for the awesome photos, Silas Nichols for the post-tourney fun, and NGC for the hospitality at our home away from home. And thank you to all our MGA members, especially those playing in their first major at the club!
Finally and most importantly, thank you to all our service women and men who gave their lives for this country. It is their sacrifice that allows us to hold tournaments like the Memorial Cup at the golf club we all love — we are all truly thankful.
Memorial Cup Results
On the course, we saw some great golf played and the good and bad shots alike were surrounded with great camaraderie.
In the net division, playing in the final net group, new MGA member Brad Adams took home the victory shooting an absolutely stellar 2nd round (gross 74) to finish the week -7 net. Congrats and great playing Brad!
And, in the gross division, Clay Thatcher separated himself from the field with a tremendous 2nd round, closing with a 2-under 70 to finish at -1 for the tournament. A truly deserving champion — well played Clay!
Well done gentlemen getting through a complete Round 1 today! Attached you’ll find our Round 2 groups and starting holes. We will start tomorrow with a 9:30 AM shotgun start.
UPDATE (9:50 AM): The squeegee crew is out on the course and we are a go for our 12:00 noon shotgun start for Round 1 of the Memorial Cup. Thank you squeegee crew!
The shotgun start for the 1st round of the Memorial Cup has been delayed until 12:00 noon today. A reevaluation of the puddles on greens and further update will be sent at 10:00 AM this morning.
Did anything happen at the PGA Championship this morning? Hopefully we can survive the rain this weekend with slightly less drama!
Attached you’ll find the groups + starting holes for tomorrow’s first round of the 2024 Memorial Cup 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.
We do have rain in the forecast. Our current plan is to start on time at 9:30 AM tomorrow and complete as much of our Saturday round as possible. If at any point the greens and/or course become too saturated to continue play, we will call all groups off the course for the day. We will then resume on Sunday in place (wherever you left off) and continue playing the remainder of 1st round and follow straight into 2nd round play.
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.
Sign-ups close tonight at 8:00 PM for our first MGA major of the year, the Memorial Cup, which is set to be played Saturday and Sunday, May 18th + 19th with a 9:30 AM shotgun start both days. Please sign up via the online registration portal.
To confirm your Memorial Cup sign-up, please double check for your name on the online leaderboard.
The format for Memorial Cup is 2-day, 36-hole stroke play with both gross and net divisions. To compete in the NET division, all players must meet the MGA 2-in-30 handicap posting requirement.
Memorial Cup: Saturday and Sunday, May 18th + 19th Sign-Up Deadline: Thursday, May 16th @ 8:00 PM Cost: $30 — all participants must be MGA members Online Registration Portal: https://mga.golf/memorial-cup-sign-up
