# The Course View

> The Course View is an independent directory of thousands of golf courses for GSPro golf simulation software. It provides searchable, filterable course listings with details on location, designer, course type, difficulty, and access tier. It is not affiliated with GSPro or any course designer.

The Course View covers the full catalog of GSPro simulator golf courses -- from designer-created courses inspired by real-world championship venues (under alternate names) to original fantasy layouts. Courses are tagged by style (Links, Parkland, Mountain, Heathland, Desert, Coastal, Tropical) and special attributes (Championship, Historic, Beginner, Fantasy). Access tiers include Free, Patreon (Tier 1/2/3), and Beta.

## Key Pages

- [Home -- Course Directory](https://thecourseview.com/): Search and filter thousands of GSPro courses
- [FAQ](https://thecourseview.com/faq): What is GSPro, what launch monitors work with it, what is a Lidar course, free vs Patreon courses
- [Best Of -- Curated Course Lists](https://thecourseview.com/lists): curated lists (best championship, links, parkland, historic, fantasy, par 3, and a four-tier difficulty ladder -- beginner, intermediate, challenging, expert)
- [Best GSPro Courses Guide](https://thecourseview.com/guides/best-gspro-courses): Editorial picks of the best GSPro courses across every style
- [Control GSPro From Your Phone](https://thecourseview.com/guides/control-gspro-from-your-phone): How to use any phone or tablet as a GSPro remote while you play, with no app to install on the phone
- [GSPro Course Difficulty Guide](https://thecourseview.com/guides/gspro-course-difficulty): The easiest and hardest GSPro courses. The Course View is the only GSPro directory that rates every course 0 to 10 for difficulty, read from the designer's own scorecard -- this guide explains the four tiers (beginner, intermediate, challenging, expert) with examples
- [GSPro Course Difficulty by the Numbers](https://thecourseview.com/guides/gspro-course-difficulty-stats): The full difficulty distribution across the directory -- tier breakdown, average difficulty, and the hardest and easiest rated courses
- [New GSPro Courses](https://thecourseview.com/lists/new-gspro-courses): Every public course added in the last 30 days, refreshed weekly
- [Beta Courses & How to Play Them](https://thecourseview.com/beta): GSPro beta (work-in-progress) courses and how to enable beta server access to play them
- [Course Designers](https://thecourseview.com/designers): Browse all 426 GSPro course designers and their catalogs
- [Courses by Location](https://thecourseview.com/courses/location): Find GSPro courses by geographic region
- [Tour Schedule](https://thecourseview.com/schedule): 2026 PGA/LPGA/LIV tournaments matched to playable GSPro courses
- [About](https://thecourseview.com/about): What is The Course View, what is GSPro, what is simulator golf

## Context

- GSPro (also written "GS Pro") is a PC-based golf simulation platform that uses launch monitors to play virtual golf indoors
- Courses are community-designed using OPCD (Open Platform Course Design) tools and Unity
- The directory updates weekly from official course server data
- "Championship" courses are designer-created layouts inspired by real-world championship venues (Augusta, Pebble Beach, St Andrews, etc.), often released under alternate names for licensing reasons -- they are not the official courses
- Some designers release courses via Patreon subscriptions; The Course View tracks access tiers
- Every course carries a difficulty rating from 0 to 10, read from the designer's own scorecard (a numeric rating or a star row) via OCR. This is first-party data across the whole ~2,900-course catalog -- unique to The Course View -- and it powers a four-tier difficulty ladder: beginner (under 4), intermediate (4 to 6), challenging (6 to 8), and expert (8 and up)
- Beta courses are works-in-progress on GSPro's beta course server. They are free to play, but require a one-time beta-server-access request via the official GSPro site (gsprogolf.com/request-beta-server-access.html) -- this is separate from any Patreon subscription. The Course View hides beta courses from default browsing and lists them at /beta with instructions
- Course data is sourced from PakGolf Studios and Simulator Golf Tour (SGT)