How to install GSPro courses on PC

The short version

1. Find the exact course name (our directory is the fastest way to look it up).
2. Open GSPro and go to the course download list on the play screen.
3. Search the name, hit download, and it installs itself.

That's it for the large majority of courses. The rest of this guide covers the details, the two exceptions, and troubleshooting.

Downloading a course inside GSPro

GSPro has a course downloader built in. It connects to the community course server, where the courses designers build with the OPCD tools are hosted, and pulls them down for you. You don't move any files by hand.

1. Launch GSPro and start toward a round until you reach the course selection screen.
2. Open the option to download more courses. GSPro loads the list of everything available on the server.
3. Type the course name into the search box. This is where knowing the exact name helps, since a lot of famous courses are released under alternate names for licensing reasons (Augusta National shows up as Georgia Golf Club, for example). Every course page here lists the GSPro name and the real course it's based on.
4. Click download. GSPro grabs the course and installs it in the background.
5. When it finishes, the course is in your list and ready to play. No restart needed for most.

Courses land in your GSPro data folder automatically. You never have to touch that folder for a normal download, but it's worth knowing it exists for the manual installs below.

Beta courses need one extra step

Beta courses are works in progress that live on a separate GSPro server. They're free, but they won't appear in the normal download list until you request beta access. It's a one-time thing: fill out the request form on the official GSPro site at gsprogolf.com/request-beta-server-access.html, and once you're approved the beta courses show up alongside everything else.

We keep the full list of beta courses, plus a fuller explanation of the access request, on the beta courses page.

Patreon and manual installs

Some designers release courses through Patreon before or instead of the public server. Those come as a file you download from the designer, and you install them by hand. The process is short:

1. Download the course pack from the designer (usually a zip file from their Patreon).
2. Unzip it.
3. Copy the course folder into your GSPro courses folder, inside the GSPro data directory.
4. Restart GSPro. The course now appears in your list.

If a designer includes their own instructions with the download, follow those, since a few package things slightly differently. You can find which designers run a Patreon on our Patreon courses list and on each designer's page.

If a course won't show up

A few things fix almost every case:

• Restart GSPro. The most common fix. Newly installed courses, especially manual ones, sometimes need a fresh launch to register.
• Check the name. You might be searching the real-world name when the course is listed under an alternate one. Look it up here first and search the GSPro name.
• Confirm it's not beta. If it's a beta course and you haven't requested access, it won't appear. See the step above.
• Re-download it. A download that got interrupted can leave a course half-installed. Deleting and pulling it again usually clears it up.