Famous Courses Not on GSPro (Yet)

First, make sure it's actually missing

GSPro courses are built by community designers, and real clubs own their names. So designers rename them: Augusta National is in the sim as Georgia Golf Club, Pebble Beach as DPC Pebble, St Andrews as Sovereignbyre Links. The disguises can be sneaky. Spyglass Hill is in there as DPC Skyglass Hill, Baltusrol as Baltus Roll, and TPC Southwind as DPC Southbreeze. So if you searched for the real name and found nothing, the course may still exist. Our guide to the real courses on GSPro maps the big ones, and the directory search matches real names and sim names alike.

When a course is genuinely absent, it's usually for one of three reasons. Building a course takes a designer hundreds of hours, and they build what they love. Good terrain data doesn't exist for every property, and lidar coverage is patchy outside the US. And some clubs are so private that there's barely any reference material to work from. None of these are permanent: designers ship new courses every week, and this list shrinks over time. We'll keep it current.

Medinah No. 3

This is the one we get asked about most right now, because the Presidents Cup comes to Medinah on September 24–27, 2026. Three US Opens, two PGA Championships, and the 2012 Ryder Cup that produced the Miracle at Medinah, and still nobody has built the No. 3 course for GSPro. When the matches start, you won't be playing the tournament course at home.

One nuance: the directory does have Medinah No. 1, a pakman Patreon build of the club's other eighteen. Same ground, same clubhouse, but not the championship layout the Presidents Cup will use. For that major-venue muscle, play Butler National, the private brute that hosted the Western Open for years. For Chicago golf history, there's Chicago Golf Club, the oldest 18-hole course in America. And our Chicago metro guide covers everything else in the area.

Muirfield

Sixteen Opens, the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, and what many consider the fairest links in the world. A quick warning about search results: the Muirfield Village you'll find in the directory is Jack Nicklaus's course in Ohio. Great course, different continent. The Scottish original isn't in the sim.

The closest thing on GSPro: East Lothian is well covered otherwise. North Berwick West Links is twenty minutes up the coast and gave golf the Redan. Gullane No. 1 is literally next door to Muirfield, close enough that you can see one from the other.

Southern Hills Country Club

Seven majors and counting, most recently the 2022 PGA Championship. Perry Maxwell's Tulsa masterpiece has the best set of greens in championship golf, which is exactly the kind of thing a simulator build lives or dies on.

The closest thing on GSPro: Colonial in Fort Worth, another Maxwell design and the tour's longest-running venue. Same architect, same era, same doglegs that punish the driver-everywhere game.

Hazeltine National Golf Club

Hazeltine hosted the KPMG Women's PGA in June 2026 and gets the Ryder Cup in 2029, which means three years of people searching for it and not finding it. Two US Opens, two PGA Championships, and the 2016 Ryder Cup are already on its resume.

The closest thing on GSPro: Minnesota is covered better than you'd think. TPC Twin Cities, the 3M Open venue, is in the sim under a lightly changed name, and Chaska Town Course is literally in the same town as Hazeltine.

Ballybunion Golf Club (Old)

The anchor of every southwest Ireland golf trip and Tom Watson's favorite links in the world. The Old Course runs through some of the biggest dunes in golf, and its absence means GSPro's Irish coverage leans entirely north.

The closest thing on GSPro: that northern coverage is elite, to be fair. Royal County Down (as DPC County Down) is the consensus most beautiful course in the world, and Royal Portrush (as DPC Portrush) hosted the 2025 Open.

Sunningdale Golf Club (Old)

The benchmark for heathland golf. Willie Park Jr.'s Old Course outside London is where the heather-and-pines style was perfected, and it hosts the Senior Open regularly. Heathland is a quietly great fit for simulators, firm and bouncy with defined targets, which makes this gap sting.

The closest thing on GSPro: two, actually. Swinley Forest, Harry Colt's “least bad course”, sits in the same sand belt a few miles away and is in the sim under its own name. And Wentworth (West) is the heathland course you've watched the most, as the BMW PGA venue.

Fairmont Banff Springs

Stanley Thompson's course under Mount Rundle might be the most photographed in golf, and the par-3 Devil's Cauldron is on every list of the best holes ever built. Mountain courses are spectacular in a sim, so this one's absence gets noticed.

The closest thing on GSPro: the sister course. Jasper Park Lodge is Thompson's other Canadian Rockies masterpiece, two hours up the Icefields Parkway, and plenty of people rank it higher than Banff anyway.

More that people keep looking for

The rest of the most-requested absences, each with the nearest substitute where one exists:

• Royal Lytham & St Annes: Eleven Opens on a links squeezed between suburban streets, with more bunkers than any other course on the rota. Closest thing: Royal Birkdale.
• Congressional Country Club (Blue): The Beltway’s major venue, rebuilt by Andrew Green ahead of more championships this decade. Closest thing: Quail Hollow.
• Kingsbarns Golf Links: The modern links a few miles from St Andrews that everyone plays on their Scotland trip. Closest thing: the Old Course (as Sovereignbyre Links).
• Cruden Bay Golf Club: Wild dunes and blind shots on the Aberdeenshire coast. A cult favorite among links purists. Closest thing: Royal Dornoch.
• Lahinch Golf Club (Old): The goats, the Dell hole, the whole west-of-Ireland experience. Closest thing: Royal Portrush (as DPC Portrush).
• Old Head Golf Links: Nine holes hang over the Atlantic on a diamond of headland near Kinsale. Made for a simulator, still unbuilt. Closest thing: Cape Kidnappers, the closest clifftop drama.
• Camargo Club: Seth Raynor’s Cincinnati template masterpiece, as private as they come. Closest thing: Fishers Island, his other one.
• Kingston Heath Golf Club: Melbourne Sandbelt royalty, bunkered by Alister MacKenzie. Closest thing: Royal Melbourne.
• Hirono Golf Club: Japan’s best course. Charles Alison’s deep bunkers gave a whole style its name, and no designer has touched it.
• Kawana Hotel Golf Course (Fuji): The Pebble Beach of Japan, draped along Sagami Bay. Closest thing: the original (as DPC Pebble).
• Mid Pines Inn & Golf Club: The purest surviving Donald Ross routing in the Sandhills, right across the road from its sister. Closest thing: Pine Needles.
• Pinehurst No. 4: Gil Hanse’s 2018 rebuild made it a destination in its own right. Closest thing: Pinehurst No. 2.
• PGA National (Champion): The Bear Trap holes 15 through 17 are some of the most famous water carries in golf. Closest thing: the Blue Monster at Doral.
• Bel-Air Country Club: The Swinging Bridge, the celebrity membership, the George Thomas design over LA canyons. Closest thing: Riviera, his masterpiece down the road.
• Champions Golf Club (Cypress Creek): Jackie Burke and Jimmy Demaret’s Houston institution, host of a US Open and a Ryder Cup. Closest thing: Memorial Park.

This list has an expiry date

Every course here is one motivated designer away from being wrong, and that's the good news. The directory syncs with the GSPro course databases weekly, so when someone finally builds Medinah or Ballybunion, it shows up in new courses within days and comes off this page. If you spot one we've missed, or one that's quietly shipped under a name we didn't catch, the report button on any course page reaches us.