Skip to content

← All how-to guides

Playing · 3 min read

Start a round in GSPro

Course, players, tees, go. About ninety seconds from the main menu to your first tee shot.

Before you start

  • GSPro open, signed in, and showing it’s connected — see Log in with your GSPro account.
  • Everyone who’s playing, so you can add them all up front.

1Choose Local Play

  1. From the GSPro main menu, choose Local Play. That’s a normal round on this bay with the people in it.
  2. Ignore the online / tournament options for now — they’re for organised events and need a set-up of their own.

2Pick a course

  1. Use the search box to type part of a course name — Pebble, Augusta, Sawgrass, Gleannloch — or scroll the list.
  2. Tap a course to see its card: length, par, and difficulty.
  3. Choose Select (or similar) to lock it in.
First time out? Pick a course you know from TV — it’s more fun when you recognise the holes. Our This Week in Golf page names the course the pros are playing this week; it’s almost always in the list.

3Add your players

  1. Choose Add player once for each person who’ll be hitting. Give each a name so the scorecard makes sense.
  2. For each player, set the tee box. Not sure? Pick the middle set — you can always move up next round.
  3. Set left- or right-handed per player. This matters: the sensor reads a lefty swing from the other side.
  4. Leave club selection on automatic unless you want to pick every club yourself.
Everyone in your bay can play from one booking — the price is per bay, per hour, not per person. Up to 8 players fit in a round.

4Set the round options

Sensible defaults are already in place; change only what you care about:

  1. Holes — 18, front 9, back 9, or a custom range. A 9-hole round for two people fits a one-hour booking; 18 for a foursome is closer to three.
  2. Format — stroke play is the default. Scramble, match play and others are covered in Game modes & settings.
  3. Conditions — wind, green speed, pin position and time of day. Calm wind and medium greens are a fair place to start.
  4. Gimmes / putting — a gimme distance auto-holes short putts and keeps the group moving. Our bays default to a 6-foot gimme.
  5. Choose Start Round.

5Tee off

  1. The first hole loads with the first player’s name on screen. Wait for the ready indicator before swinging — hitting early is the most common “my shot didn’t count”.
  2. Ball on the marked spot, swing, and watch it fly. Your numbers appear on the side or bottom of the screen.
  3. GSPro walks to the ball and prompts the next player in order. Just step up when your name shows.
  4. Need the menu mid-round — mulligan, scorecard, drop, quit? Press Esc on the keyboard or tap the menu button on screen. Details in Game modes & settings.
Putting: when your ball is on the green, take a normal putting stroke. Inside the gimme distance the game holes it for you and moves on.

Still stuck? Text us.

Day or night, a quick text is the fastest way to reach a real person. Tell us your bay number and what you see on screen.

Staffed / bar hours: Mon-Thu 10am - 10pm · Fri-Sat 10am - 11pm · Sunday 10am - 5pm
Outside those hours, text us and we’ll respond as soon as we can.