In July of 1992 Frank and Mary Magee formed Moonlight Golf Association, Inc. to make developmental pro golf more available and affordable. Mary, a mother of five has an associates degree, majoring in business. Her five years experience as a bookeeper would become valuable as she manages all business accounting functions. Mary's parents were avid golfers. As a junior golfer, she learned to play at Old York Road Country Club in Pennsylvania.

Frank Magee played tournament golf from the age of thirteen, starting into golf as a caddy at the age of twelve at Huntingdon Valley Country Club outside Philadelphia. Frank won four junior club championships and the men’s championship. Defeating the state and national amateur champion, Jay Sigel in a semi-final match, Frank was runner-up in the Philadelphia amateur championship at age 18. The same year he qualified for his first U.S. Amateur and won his first match in U.S.G.A competition. Overall, Frank successfully qualified into six U.S.G.A. events and into the Sectionals of the U.S. Open. While serving as a Lieutenant and Platoon Commander in the United States Marine Corps, Frank won successively higher command’s golf championships and competed in the Inter-service Championship as a member of the All-Marine Team. During his time in the Marines, Frank and Mary had two children, Laura and Jacquelyn.

EXPERIENCE

Immediately following Frank’s service with the Marines, already a graduate from LaSalle College High School and Temple University with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, he accepted a position with General Electric’s Aerospace Group in Valley Forge PA, as a System Analyst. His work during the Cold War years with the Systems Integrations Department remains classified as Top Secret. Early during Frank’s service with G.E., he earned a Master’s degree in applied mathematics from Villanova University. While working in Valley Forge, Frank and Mary had two more children; Kenneth and Mary Frances.

After years of classified work in secure locations, a career openning move brought the Magee family to Florida where Frank had accepted a position as Test Manager with E-Systems (Raytheon), a company which engineers and manufactures defense communications systems. Later as a contract engineer Frank returned to serve G.E. Aerospace in Valley Forge, and also Camden, New Jersey for two years. Subsequently, G.E. brought Frank to Daytona Florida as a contract engineer developing flight simulation networking systems. When Martin Marietta assumed G.E. Aerospace and then Lockheed merged with Martin, Frank’s service contract was continued through these corporate mergers. After serving Lockheed Martin in east Orlando as a technical proposal manager for new business, Frank committed himself to building the Moonlight/NEXT! program.

After his days as amateur tournament golfer, Frank found time to compete as a mini-tour professional golfer on the J.C. Goosie Space Coast Tour, the Florida Tour, the Tommy Armour Tour, and the NFPGA Winter Tour, winning only modest amounts. Frank also attempted Hogan Tour qualifiers and many PGA TOUR "four spot" open qualifiers, breaking par a few times, but never qualifying. With these competitive experiences and having been forced on occassion due to inadequate funding to sleep in his car at tournament sites, Frank gained a personal understanding of pro golf’s need for a more accessible and equitable system of player advancement.

NEXT! & LIBERTY SERIES

Frank and Mary Magee recognized a need for a pro tour program which advances players based solely on the merits of their play in open competition and also provides opportunity for players to win significant prize money. Fully committed, Frank and Mary have accepted the challenge of building a distributed multi-staged open pro golf tour program. Mary, a mother to four young adults and one pre-schooler, keeps a tight grip on all tour business matters as she carefully manages office administrative functions. Frank applies his organizational skills to plan, schedule and reliably conduct over 250 tournament events each year. He applies his technical background to exploit the advancing Internet technology to capture a growing viewership for the tour’s golf action videos refreshed nightly on the World Wide Web at www.moonlightgolf.com.

The No EXemptions Tour, Inc. (NEXT!) was started in 1997 by Frank and Mary Magee to expand on the mission of Moonlight Golf, creating higher level golf tournament competition for the top performers from Moonlight and other associated tours/groups/advocates. Funds contributed by Moonlight Golf to NEXT! assure that the prize purse levels relative to player fees are consistently the best in developmental pro golf. As associated tours/groups/advocates located outside of central Florida certify qualified players for the NEXT! events, the prize purse levels will rise, and greater interest from players is anticipated.

The LIBERTY Series, conducted by the No EXemptions Tour (NEXT!), constitutes the third level of play and only accepts entries from players who have performed in the top 33% of a recent NEXT! event. In March 2006, LIBERTY-8 awarded $10,000 to its winner, Ty Harris. This player finished in the top 33% of a Moonlight event to play in the NEXT! He then finished in the top 33% of the NEXT! to qualify for LIBERTY-8. Mr. Harris converted an $85 dollar entry fee investment at the Moonlight level into a $10,000 return at the LIBERTY level. The PGA/Nationwide TOUR's Tim Petrovic, Darron Stiles, Dave Rummels, Akio Sadakata, Patrick Sheehan and Vaughn Taylor, each won NEXT! events. A list of other "Success Stories" may be viewed via the OGATOUR.ORG home page link.

FUTURE

Frank and Mary will work to stepwise develop a new iTV internet site, www.ogatour.org. It will showcase golf action video from contributing Open Golf Association (OGA) tour/groups along with results from events at the various levels. This new web site will serve as a hub for linkage to the various OGA tour/groups web sites while aggregating players results to create player statistics and implement a universal player rating system.

QuikStat is an Internet-based database program which allows players to keep and analyze their important golf statistics to better train and manage their games. This program developed by Frank Magee employs database programing techniques which are now employed in the online database serving the OGATOUR program.

During the next decade of golf operations, Frank and Mary Magee hope to identify sponsors/advertisers which will benefit from brand identification with this distributed open multi-stage pro golf concept, titled the Open Golf Association TOUR [OGATOUR].