For Men’s Night this week, we’ll be playing our Chicago format on the Back 9. 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 all completed cards to the Pro Shop.
Chicago Format:
Players start with a negative number of points (based on 18-hole course handicaps) then add positive points during their round. The idea is to get from the negative to the positive, clearing your “hurdle” by as many points as possible.
+2 & +1 start with -21 0 & 1 start with -20 2 & 3 start with -19 4 & 5 start with -18 6 & 7 start with -17 8 & 9 start with -16 10 & 11 start with -15 12 & 13 start with -14 14 & 15 start with -13 16 & 17 start with -12 18 & 19 start with -11 20 & 21 start with -10 22 & 23 start with -9 24 & 25 start with -8 26 & 27 start with -7 28 & 29 start with -6 30 & 31 start with -5 32 & 33 start with -4 34 & 35 start with -3 36+ start with -2 points
During the round, positive points are added on the following basis using gross hole scores:
Double Bogey or worse = 0 points
Bogey = 1 point
Par = 2 points
Birdie = 4 points
Eagle = 8 points
Albatross = 16 points
Upcoming MGA Schedule
10/6 — Chicago: Back 9
10/13 — 1-Man Scramble: Front 9
10/15 + 10/16 — Stearns Cup: Final MGA major of the 2022 season, 2-man teams playing best ball. Sign up with your teammate.
10/20 — 1-Club Challenge: Back 9 — Players choose only 1 club to use for all shots (including putting) for the entire round.
10/27 — E-9: All players meet on 1st tee at 4:00 PM for a traditional NGC E-9. Scramble teams will be determined by handicap index.
10/29 — MGA Closing Day Stableford: Final MGA event of the season, 18-hole Stableford format with gross and net divisions.
Team sign-ups continue for the final MGA major of the season, The Stearns Cup,which is set to be played Saturday & Sunday, October 15th + 16th.
The format for Stearns Cup is 2-man teams playing 2-day, 36 hole, best ball for both gross and net awards. 100% of handicaps apply for net play. Standard MGA tees, with Rule of 75 for gold tee players.
If you are looking for a teammate for Stearns Cup, please let us know at [email protected] and we’ll do our best to pair you up.
To confirm your team’s sign-up, double check the online leaderboard here.
Stearns Cup: Saturday & Sunday, October 15th + 16th — 9:30 AM shotgun start each day Cost: $40 per player — All players must be MGA members Online Registration Portal: https://bit.ly/Stearns-Cup-2022
We’d like to send out a thank you to all competitors for completing their matches to get us to the semifinals in both the Main and Wildcard brackets. Congrats and well played to all those who have now reached the Final 4:
Main Bracket Final 4:
Phil Martin vs. Calvin Harkless
Daryl Stone vs. Matt Doherty
Wildcard Bracket Final 4:
Erik Rosales vs. Bob DeBold
Jim Sussmann vs. Steve Cuevas
The next round deadline for Final 4 matches is Monday, October 10th.
Match Play Entry Fee
The $30 entry fee for the 2022 Match Play will be charged to all competitors’ accounts this week.
Team sign-ups continue for the final MGA major of the season, The Stearns Cup, which is set to be played Saturday & Sunday, October 15th + 16th.
The format for Stearns Cup is 2-man teams playing 2-day, 36 hole, best ball for both gross and net awards. 100% of handicaps apply for net play. Standard MGA tees, with Rule of 75 for gold tee players.
To confirm your team’s sign-up, double check the online leaderboard here.
Stearns Cup: Saturday & Sunday, October 15th + 16th — 9:30 AM shotgun start each day Cost: $40 per player — All players must be MGA members Online Registration Portal: https://bit.ly/Stearns-Cup-2022
Team sign-ups are now open for the final MGA major of the season, The Stearns Cup,which is set to be played Saturday & Sunday, October 15th + 16th.
The format for Stearns Cup is 2-man teams playing 2-day, 36 hole, best ball for both gross and net awards. 100% of handicaps apply for net play. Standard MGA tees, with Rule of 75 for gold tee players.
To confirm your team’s sign-up, double check the online leaderboard here.
Stearns Cup: Saturday & Sunday, October 15th + 16th — 9:30 AM shotgun start each day Cost: $40 per player — All players must be MGA members Online Registration Portal: https://bit.ly/Stearns-Cup-2022
For Men’s Nights, your 5 lowest scoring weeks (or weeks you missed) have been dropped.
For our 1-day, 80-point events (Play It Again, 2-Man Team Shamble, NGC Cup), 1 low points-earned tournament has been dropped with our Closing Day Stableford (10/29) still to be played.
The same applies to our multi-day / major tournaments (Match Play, Memorial Cup, RW&B, Club Championship) where 1 low has been dropped with Stearns Cup (10/15-10/16) still to be played.
Match Play points have been awarded through all current matches played and, for those who continue to advance, points will be updated as all remaining matches are completed.
Drops will continue to be updated through the remainder of this year’s Men’s Nights, the closing rounds of the Match Play tournament, and the playing of our final 2 weekend tournaments in October. An exciting finish to the 2022 Points Chase is in store!
2022 Points Chase Top 10 (as of 9/23/2022)
1st – Weston Happ – 747.38 Chase Points 2nd – Adam Miller – 736.59 Chase Points 3rd – Ed Clarke – 634.73 Chase Points 4th – Patrick Escalambre – 630.66 Chase Points 5th – Kyle Armstrong – 586.77 Chase Points 6th – Jim Sussmann – 546.16 Chase Points 7th – Leo Goff – 467.50 Chase Points 8th – Jack Sullivan – 466.66 Chase Points 9th – Kevin Dick – 429.14 Chase Points 10th – Matt Doherty – 424.50 Chase Points
For Men’s Night this week, we’ll be playing our Stableford format on the Front 9. Points will be awarded based on the standard Stableford scoring breakdown using 100% of individual Front 9 handicaps.
Net Double Bogey or higher: 0 points
Net Bogey: 1 point
Net Par: 2 points
Net Birdie: 3 points
Net Eagle: 4 points, and so on.
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.
Upcoming Men’s Nights Schedule
9/22 — Stableford: Front 9 9/29 — Night Golf: Team format with glow balls. Steak & Spuds meal before play starting at 6:00 PM. Sign up online.
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Match Play — Next Round Deadline 9/25
The deadline for Elite 8 matches (Main Bracket Round 4 and Wildcard Bracket Round 3) is set for this Sunday, September 25th. Please contact [email protected] (email subject: “Match Play”) or call the Pro Shop 301-292-1100 if you need your opponent’s contact information.
If your match has been completed, please make sure the results have been reported to [email protected] so we can update the online brackets.
With the 2022 edition of the NGC Club Championship officially in the books, we’d like to send a wholehearted thank you to all the NGC staff and members who made the weekend a fantastic success. Thank you to Terry and Donnee for the great 1st tee announcing and all the Pro Shop’s help throughout the weekend. Thank you to Basil, Jada, Chef Lois, Christine, and all the clubhouse staff who make NGC the place we want to spend our best days. Thank you to John Burns and all the course maintenance crew who got the course into excellent condition for the weekend’s play. Thank you to Mary Ann for being a truly helpful and member-focused GM. Finally, thank you to all the members who not only took part in playing but also hung out to enjoy the NGC camaraderie we all love and watch some great golf.
Club Championship Results
In all three of our flights, we saw some fantastic golf and tight battles down the stretch. In the Second Flight, Kevin Dick and Jack Sullivan both finished at +7 net for the weekend to share 1st place honors. In the First Flight, Leo Goff took the well deserved victory coming in at even par net total for the weekend and just edging out Daryl Stone who finished 2nd at +1 total. And in the Championship Flight, some very good golf across the board on Saturday carried into Sunday with a tight leaderboard down the stretch. On the 36th hole of the Championship, Kyle Armstrong stood on the 18th tee with a 1-shot lead over Patrick Escalambre, who had parred 7 holes in a row on the back, and a 2-shot lead over Jared Powell and Weston Happ, who had birdied #16 and #17 respectively. With the Championship on the line, Kyle hit a beautiful 6-iron to 15 feet and, like a true champion, rolled in the final birdie putt for a 2 to close out the Club Championship in style. Great finish and enjoy the parking spot sir!
We ask that all players who competed this weekend post their tournament rounds to GHIN as Tournament Scores. Any scores that have not been posted by midnight tonight will be posted by NGC this week.
For any players who would like to buy into the Skins pot for the 1st Round, please Venmo $20 to @Weston-Happ (6520) before your tee time tomorrow.
Food & Drinks
Doughnuts & coffee will be available for all Club Championship participants before tomorrow’s first round. On Sunday, lunch & drinks from the bar will be provided as groups finish their second round play.
