Golf Sim Leagues is a weekly online competition for home golf simulator owners, built around real cash prizes, a fair handicap system, and a live leaderboard. If you have a home simulator running GS Pro, you can enter, play your round in your own room, submit your score, and compete against up to 100 players in your flight every week.
Season 1 launched on 17 June 2026. Weekly competitions are live now.
Who Built Golf Sim Leagues?
Golf Sim Leagues is a product designed by Golf Sim Rooms. It was developed alongside a community of sim golfers and content ambassadors who helped shape what the league needed to be from the ground up.
The idea behind it is straightforward. A huge number of people now have serious golf simulator setups at home. They use them to practise, to play course rounds, and to improve their game. What was missing was a structured, competitive format that let those players compete against each other properly, from their own rooms, with real prizes on the line and a handicap system they could trust.
Golf Sim Leagues was built to fill that gap.
How Does It Work?
The format is simple. Each week a new course is announced. Members play their round on GS Pro, submit their score, and the live leaderboard updates in real time. Five prizes are awarded every week per flight.
Each flight holds a maximum of 100 players. That cap is deliberate. It means every member has a realistic chance of winning every week, not just the scratch golfers at the top of a 1,000-person list.
The weekly schedule runs through the season with 18-hole rounds in medal and Stableford formats, depending on the week. Courses range from Shinnecock Hills and Kiawah Island to DPC Portrush and Swiss Alpine Valley. The prize pool for each weekly competition is £250 per flight, with prizes structured as follows:
- 1st place: £75
- 2nd place: £50
- 3rd place: £25
- Nearest the pin: £50
- Bonus prize: £50
There is also a monthly challenge running alongside the weekly competition, with a minimum guaranteed prize pot of £250. The format rotates each month, covering famous Par 3 closest-to-the-pin challenges, nearest in two on Par 5s, and more.
How Are Handicaps Handled?
The handicap system is one of the things Golf Sim Leagues has thought about most carefully, because a competition with unfair handicaps is not really a competition.
GSL uses SGT (Simulator Golf Tour) handicaps where available, or WHS minus four shots if not. If you have neither, a three-round build period creates your handicap before net prizes unlock. During that build period you can still win nearest-the-pin and other non-net prizes.
Handicaps are manually reviewed every week by the Rules and Integrity Committee. Adjustments are applied transparently, with the logic shared so members understand why a change has been made. That is not something most competition platforms bother with, and it is the reason the system holds up over a full season.
The full detail on how GSL handicaps work is on the GSL handicaps page.
What Do You Need to Join?
You need a home golf simulator running GS Pro. That is the one technical requirement. GS Pro is the software platform Golf Sim Leagues is built around, and your round needs to be played and submitted through it.
Beyond that, you need a handicap or the willingness to complete the three-round build period before net prizes unlock. Signing up takes a few minutes. You add your handicap, your sim setup details, and you are ready to compete from the next weekly round.
What Does It Cost?
Membership is available on two plans.
The monthly plan is £25 per month, with full season access, weekly competitions, and the ability to join a minimum of three team events per season. SGT access is included with no extra account charges. Cancel anytime.
The annual plan is £250 for the year, which works out at under £21 per month, a saving of around 17% versus monthly. The annual plan also includes the first two months of bonus competitions free, a 10% discount on Year 1 team event entry fees, and exclusive discount codes from GSL partners throughout the season.
Both plans include full access, all prizes, and SGT integration. There are no hidden extras.
Affiliates offer additional savings at checkout. You can see the current affiliate codes on the Golf Sim Leagues sign-up page.
Team Events
Alongside the weekly individual competition, Golf Sim Leagues runs team events throughout the season. Formats include Scramble, Better Ball and Foursomes, and Match Play Knockout. Each team event carries a prize pool of £250 or more.
Team events require a paid entry fee separate from the membership, but monthly and annual members get discounted rates. There are a minimum of three team events per season for all members.
The Community Behind It
Golf Sim Leagues was not built in isolation. It was designed with input from some of the most respected voices in the simulator golf community.
The current GSL ambassadors include Ryan (RRaw Golf), a golf simulator live streamer with a global audience who has recently joined GSR as content lead. Joe Lagowski is one of the most trusted voices in simulation golf, known for in-depth tech reviews that reach a worldwide audience. Georgina Golfs is one of the UK’s most trusted equipment reviewers, working for Golf Magic and known for data-driven assessments powered by simulator technology. HANDICAP GOLF is one of the UK’s leading golf simulator creators, focused on DIY home sim setups and honest real-world testing. Sandro (Unreal Golf) brings a global reach focused on budget golf simulators and what is achievable without overspending.
The community is active across eight-plus countries and growing. The full community page is at golfsimleagues.co.uk/community.
Why It Is Worth Knowing About If You Have a Home Sim
The honest reason Golf Sim Leagues matters to home simulator owners is that it changes how the room gets used.
A home simulator is excellent for practice. Most people use it to hit balls, work on their swing, and play the occasional solo course round. What Golf Sim Leagues adds is competitive stakes. You are playing against real people, on the same course, in the same week, with real money on the line. That changes the mindset going into a round and makes every shot matter in a way that solo practice does not.
From working with clients who have home sim setups, we’ve found that the rooms used most consistently are the ones where there is a reason to show up every week. A league with a live leaderboard and a prize pool gives you that reason.
If you want to understand more about what a home simulator room looks like before thinking about competing in one, our guide on what is the best type of golf simulator room covers your options clearly.
Conclusion
Golf Sim Leagues is a weekly competitive league for home sim golfers, built by Golf Sim Rooms and designed to give simulator owners something real to compete for from their own rooms. Fair handicaps, a capped flight size, real cash prizes every week, and a community of sim golfers from across the world make it one of the most structured competitive formats available for home simulator owners in 2026.
Season 1 is live. You can sign up and start competing at golfsimleagues.co.uk/sign-up.
