The New Indoorsman GC League
The Indoorsman Golf League
Play more. Compete all month. Climb the leaderboard.
There are more than 500 Trackman courses loaded into the sims at Indoorsman. That sounds like a feature until you’re standing in a bay at 9:40 on a Tuesday night, scrolling, scrolling, and eventually picking Bandon Dunes for the ninth time because you couldn’t decide.
That’s the problem the Indoorsman League hopes to solve. It gives every booking a reason to exist. You show up, the course is already picked for you, and the round you play actually counts toward something. Many of you have already participated in our early testing in August and your feedback has been useful to refine and tweak the format for September and beyond.
This is how it will work.
The short version
- At the end of each month you will receive an email invite to the next months league. Make sure to accept and then you will see these events in the Trackman app and in the Indoorsman competition section when you log in.
- The month is broken into a series of events, each with its own play window.
- Every event has an 18-hole contest and an alternate contest (closest to the pin, par 3, or long drive).
- You earn points based on where you finish in each contest.
- Thursdays from noon to midnight are league night, and everything played in that window is worth double points.
- At the end of the month, the top 5 point earners win prizes from the monthly prize pool.
- Monthly points roll into a yearly leaderboard with its own prizes. Yearly points reset after December 31.
That’s the rough idea. Now the details.
Events, and why there are so many of them
Part of the issue with our test month in August was that some of the events would overlap, which made everything more confusing than it needed to be. With the updated format, events will be end to end with very little overlapping which should make things much simpler.
An event is a window of time with several contests attached to it. The events layout follow a simple rhythm that leads to a number of ‘milestones’ or ‘sprints’ throughout the month:
- Monday 12:00 AM through Thursday noon — the weekday block.
- Thursday noon through Thursday midnight — league night, double points.
- Friday 12:00 AM through Sunday midnight — the weekend block.
That pattern repeats through the month, which works out to roughly a dozen events and 20 to 25 individual contests every month.
That’s a lot of events on purpose. If we ran one contest per week, the leaderboard would sit frozen for six days at a time and nobody would care. With events turning over every few days, points move constantly. You can come in on a Friday, put up a number, and see yourself climb Monday instead of the end of the month.
It also means missing a stretch doesn’t bury you. Travel for a week and there are still fifteen contests left to chase.
These visualizations show how this milestone system would map on a linear and calendar view:
Scoring
Every contest is scored the same way: finish higher, earn more. What changes is the size of the pot.
| Place | CTP / Long Drive (25 pts) |
Par 3 / 2× CTP & LD (50 pts) |
18-hole / 2× Par 3 (100 pts) |
2× 18-hole League (200 pts) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 | 50 | 100 | 200 |
| 2 | 23 | 45 | 90 | 180 |
| 3 | 21 | 40 | 80 | 160 |
| 4 | 19 | 35 | 70 | 140 |
| 5 | 17 | 30 | 60 | 120 |
| 6 | 15 | 25 | 50 | 100 |
| 7 | 13 | 20 | 40 | 80 |
| 8 | 11 | 15 | 30 | 60 |
| 9 | 9 | 10 | 20 | 40 |
| 10 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 20 |
| 11–20 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 20 |
In summary: a closest-to-the-pin or long drive contest is a 25-point event. A par 3 contest is a 50. An 18-hole round is a 100. And on league night, everything slides one column to the right — a CTP becomes worth what a par 3 is normally worth, a par 3 pays like an 18-hole round, and an 18-hole league night round tops out at 200 points for the win.
Two things worth noticing. First, the drop-off between first and second is small. Winning is better, but a steady stream of top-five finishes will beat one hot night almost every time. Second, points go all the way down to 20th place. If you played, you scored. That’s deliberate — the league should reward showing up, not just being the best player in the building.
League night is the whole point
Thursday from noon to midnight is when the league stops being a leaderboard and starts being a golf club.
Indoorsman staff books out one bay for the entire league night window so that anyone can walk in and play the league events. The other bays stay open for normal scheduling, and we’d love for you to grab one — bring three buddies, run the league contests as a group, and make an evening of it.
Everything played in that window is double. If you only play one session a week, make it Thursday.
Indoorsman of the Month
This is the title worth chasing. We’ve been doing this for most of 2026 and the winner will continue to get their picture on the ‘Wall of Fame’.
The qualifier runs the full week before the championship, Monday 12:00 AM through Sunday midnight. One course, one week, one chance to earn your spot.
The championship is the last Thursday of the month — also the final day of that month’s league events. It’s played on the same course as the qualifier, so the week of prep you put in is exactly the prep that matters. Championship rounds are worth double, same as any league night. Note that the championship will be cumulative between the qualifier and championship- if you are leading the qualifier by 3 strokes you start the championship with a 3 stroke lead.
Past Indoorsman of the Month courses will likely get added to the rotation for future league night 18-hole contests, so learning a course now may continue to pay dividends in the future.
Don’t be surprised if we have pizza or other food/drinks on championship night!
About the course selection
We put real thought into this instead of pulling names out of a hat.
Where possible, 18-hole contests use Virtual Golf 3 courses, which are the sharpest-looking and best-playing courses in the library. Weekday and weekend events lean toward courses you’ve probably never heard of, which is half the fun — Schloss Pichlarn, Losby Østmork, Sweetens Cove, a par 3 course built into a sinkhole in Kentucky.
League night 18-hole contests go the other direction. Those get the marquee names: Pebble Beach, Montrêux, St. Andrews, Black Desert, Bandon Dunes, Yellowstone, plus many of the courses that have hosted an Indoorsman of the Month. Big nights deserve big courses that we are already familiar with.
What September 2026 actually looks like
Here’s the full September schedule so you can see the structure in practice. Note that each month varies a little, and we’ll keep adjusting as we learn what members like.
| # | Window | 18-hole | Alternate contest |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tue 9/1 – Thu 9/3 noon | Taiheiyo Club Gotemba | CTP: Losby Østmork |
| 2 | Thu 9/3 noon – midnight (2×) | Bandon Dunes | Par 3: P&P Gualta |
| 3 | Fri 9/4 – Sun 9/6 midnight | Sharpley Springs | CTP: Le Touquet Golf Resort |
| 4 | Mon 9/7 – Thu 9/10 noon | Schloss Pichlarn | Par 3: Pinehurst Cradle |
| 5 | Thu 9/10 noon – midnight (2×) | Montrêux Golf & Country Club | CTP: Main-Spessart G.C. |
| 6 | Fri 9/11 – Sun 9/13 midnight | Jumeirah Golf Estates – Earth | Par 3: Seve GC Rotterdam |
| 7 | Mon 9/14 – Thu 9/17 noon | Sea Island Seaside | Par 3: Olde Stone – Sinkhole |
| 8 | Thu 9/17 noon – midnight (2×) | Yellowstone Club | Long Drive |
| 9 | Mon 9/14 – Sun 9/20 midnight | Indoorsman of the Month Qualifier: Medinah | — |
| 10 | Fri 9/18 – Sun 9/20 midnight | Sweetens Cove | CTP: Tributary |
| 11 | Mon 9/21 – Thu 9/24 noon | JCB Golf and Country Club | Par 3: The Hay |
| 12 | Thu 9/24 noon – midnight (2×) | Indoorsman Championship: Medinah | Par 3: Adlington – The Graduate · Long Drive · CTP: Makena |
A few things to catch. The qualifier (Event 9) runs alongside Events 7, 8, and 10 — it doesn’t replace them, so that week you’ve got the most points on the table of any week in the month. And the championship on the 24th stacks four contests into one night at double value. September is won or lost in that last stretch.
As a deeper dive into how the points add up in the month of September, let’s look at how the 25 contests break down. There are 14,891 available points! Eight standard 18-hole rounds plus the Medinah qualifier make nine at the 100 tier, and the two league-night par 3s (Gualta on the 3rd, Adlington on the 24th) double up into that same tier for ten. The 50 tier is four standard par 3s plus four doubled short contests — the CTP on the 10th, long drives on the 17th and 24th, and the Makena CTP on the 24th. Only three contests sit at the 25 tier, all weekend CTPs.
Two numbers worth pulling out of this:
A perfect month is 2,275 points. That’s winning all 25 contests: 800 from the four league nights, 1,000 from the ten 100-tier contests, 400, and 75.
League night is 52% of the month. The four Thursdays account for 7,800 of the 14,891 available points, and the September 24 championship alone is 2,600 of that — more than any two ordinary weeks combined. That’s a strong line for the post, since it makes the “if you only play once a week, make it Thursday” advice quantitative instead of just a claim.
The fine print
Prizes. The top 5 monthly point earners take home prizes from the monthly pool, which is displayed on the league leaderboard screen in the facility. That pool is expected to grow as the league does. We may increase this to top 10 prize pool as our membership grows.
Yearly. Monthly points accumulate into a yearly leaderboard with its own prize pool. Yearly totals reset after December 31.
The Dal rule. Dal Lytle, our 12-year-old resident course tester and son of one of the founders, plays more league events than anybody because he’s helping us break things before you find them. For that reason he’s excluded from final monthly and yearly leaderboards. You are still welcome to beat him. You just don’t have to worry about him taking your prize. Watch out though, he is getting better every month!
Things will change. Each month’s schedule varies, and we’ll tune the format, the courses, and the point structure as we go. If something’s working, we’ll do more of it. If it isn’t, tell us and hopefully we will adjust accordingly.
Watch the dashboards in Indoorsman. These are constantly updated and will have announcements in addition to leaderboards for monthly and yearly league points as well as Indoorsman of the Month qualifier leaders. We will also work to keep the league web page updated Indoorsmangc.com/league
Why we built this
Two reasons.
The first is practical. Over 500 courses is paralyzing, and a booking without a plan turns into forty minutes of hitting drivers on the range. The league hands you a course, a format, and a reason to actually finish the round.
The second matters more. An unstaffed 24/7 facility is an incredible thing to have — no tee times, no waiting, no one telling you to hurry up. The tradeoff is that you can play here for months and never meet anybody. League night fixes that. So does watching your name move on a leaderboard against people you’ll eventually run into in the parking lot.
Come play Thursday. Bring somebody.
The Indoorsman League runs year-round at 9475 Double R Blvd, Suites 13 & 14, Reno. Members can view current events, standings, and the monthly prize pool on the league leaderboard screen or at indoorsmangc.com.
