Best Courses on ProTee Labs: What to Play
What's Actually Worth Playing
ProTee Labs is a practice suite, not a course platform. Real course play comes from GSPro or TGC 2019. Here is how to connect them and what to play.
The Short Answer
ProTee Labs is a practice suite, not a course platform. Real course play comes from GSPro or TGC 2019. Here is how to connect them and what to play.
If you bought a ProTee VX expecting a library of famous courses waiting in the native software, I need to stop you right now. ProTee Labs doesn’t have courses. It has a driving range, a wedge matrix, bag mapping, clubface heatmaps, and the best analytics tools in the sub-$10K overhead market. But it does not have Pebble Beach. It does not have St Andrews. It does not have a single 18-hole course to play.
This is not a flaw in the VX. It is a deliberate design choice that makes the VX a better value than anything in its price bracket. By keeping ProTee Labs focused on practice and analytics, ProTee United avoids the massive engineering cost of building a course simulation engine from scratch — and passes that savings to you in the form of a $6,500 launch monitor with zero subscription fees and two free swing cameras.
The trade-off is that you need to bring your own course platform. The good news is you have excellent options, and the VX connects to all of them without proprietary lock-in.
How ProTee Course Access Actually Works
The ProTee VX connects to three platforms for full course play:
GSPro — The current gold standard. 1,500+ courses, most premium venues officially licensed or meticulously recreated by the top community designers. $299/year subscription. The VX connects natively with no extra connector fee. This is what most VX owners use for course play. You can read our full GSPro review and best courses on GSPro guide for the deep dive.
TGC 2019 — The largest course library in sim golf. Thousands of community-built courses including user-created versions of nearly every famous course on the planet. One-time $995 license — no subscription, no annual fees. ProTee United built TGC 2019, so compatibility is as good as it gets. The trade-off is graphics that look like a PS3 game and inconsistent quality across user-created courses. Full breakdown in our TGC 2019 review and best courses on TGC 2019 guide.
GolfCore — ProTee’s own Unreal Engine 5 simulation software, currently in delayed beta (originally promised late June 2026, missed with no timeline update). When it ships, it will be free for VX owners with no subscription. Course library size is unknown because the platform doesn’t exist yet. We covered the delay and what it means in our GolfCore beta delay article.
There is also E6 Connect and Creative Golf 3D, but these require ProTee’s third-party software connector at roughly $300 extra. If you’re paying extra for a connector, GSPro is the better spend.
Tier 1: The Famous Courses (GSPro Route)
If you connect your VX to GSPro — which is what I recommend for 90% of users — you get access to the best licensed course library outside of TrackMan’s walled garden. These are the courses worth loading first.
Pebble Beach Golf Links — GSPro has the highest-fidelity version of Pebble Beach available on any sim platform under $10K. The cliffs, the ocean views, the tiny greens on 7, 8, and 17 — everything reads correctly. This is a top-2 course in the sim world for a reason. See our Pebble Beach on GSPro guide for the full breakdown.
St Andrews Old Course — The GSPro version of the Old Course handles the double greens, the invisible slopes, and the wind properly. Road Hole 17 plays like the real thing — the approach over the hotel is as terrifying in sim as it is in person. Full details in our St Andrews on GSPro guide.
TPC Sawgrass (Stadium) — The 17th island green is the simulator’s greatest party trick. GSPro’s version has the right slope on the green, which matters more than you think. Most sim versions make 17 a flat target. GSPro makes it a real approach shot where missing left or long leaves you in the water, and missing short is your only escape.
Augusta National — GSPro has several community versions. None are officially licensed (Augusta doesn’t license its course to anyone), but the top-rated community recreations are exceptional. Check our Augusta National simulator guide for which versions to use.
Bethpage Black — GSPro’s licensed Bethpage Black is punishing. The rough is brutal. The fairways are narrow. The warning signs are real. If you want to test whether your sim game holds up under pressure, this is the course.
Kiawah Island Ocean Course — The wind matters more here than anywhere else in the GSPro library. The Ocean Course plays along the Atlantic coastline, and GSPro’s wind modeling makes every shot a calculation. Five club wind on 17 is a nightmare. Go play it.
Spyglass Hill — The first five holes through the Del Monte Forest are some of the best sim golf you can play. Elevation changes, tree trouble, and greens that look larger than they actually play.
Tier 2: The Hidden Gems (TGC 2019 Route)
If you go the TGC 2019 route — and there are legitimate reasons to for the one-time license cost — the course library is enormous but you have to know where to look. The quality range in TGC 2019 is wider than any other platform. When it’s good, it’s very good. When it’s bad, it’s uninstall-the-game bad.
Royal County Down (by CrazyCanuck) — The best course on TGC 2019, period. The gorse-lined fairways, the blind tee shots, the view of the Mountains of Mourne on the back nine — every detail is there. CrazyCanuck spent months on this and it shows.
Cypress Point (by MikeStrang) — The most exclusive course in America, playable on your ProTee VX. The 16th hole cliffside par-3 over the Pacific is exactly as magical as you’d hope. MikeStrang’s version is the one to download.
Pacific Dunes (by B101) — Bandon Dunes’ best course, recreated in painstaking detail. The ocean views, the fescue, the undulating fairways — this plays like the real thing. If you can’t get to Bandon, this is the next best thing.
Crystal Downs (by 100DD) — Alister MacKenzie’s masterpiece in Michigan. The routing, the false fronts, the green complexes — everything that makes this a top-25 course in America is captured. Most people have never heard of it. That’s what makes it a gem.
Cape Kidnappers (by Linksforever) — New Zealand cliffside golf at its finest. Every hole has ocean views. The elevation changes are extreme. The 15th through 17th stretch is some of the most dramatic sim golf available anywhere.
Sand Hills (by Franko) — Coore and Crenshaw’s minimalist masterpiece in Nebraska. There’s nothing flashy about it — no water, no ocean, no iconic party tricks. Just the purest set of golf holes on a treeless sandscape. If you appreciate architecture, this is the course to play.
Tier 3: Courses to Skip
Anything rated under 4.0 in TGC 2019 — The platform has no quality control. Anyone can publish anything. If a course has a sub-4.0 rating, there is a reason. Don’t waste your time.
The “Augusta National” clones with bad geometry — There are dozens of Augusta tributes on TGC 2019. Most of them are unplayable. Sticking greens, wrong hole routing, bizarre pin positions. Stick to the top-rated versions and skip everything else.
E6 Connect courses through the connector — If you paid the $300 for the third-party connector to run E6, the performance is noticeably worse than native GSPro or TGC 2019. The connector adds latency, the graphics take a hit, and the course load times are painful. It works, but it’s not how you want to experience E6’s course library.
GolfCore: The Wild Card
GolfCore is the most interesting “what if” in the ProTee ecosystem. Unreal Engine 5. Free for VX owners. No subscription. Course editor with community creation. That combination, if delivered, makes ProTee the only platform where you buy the hardware and get the software for free.
But it hasn’t shipped yet. The beta was promised for late June 2026 and missed with radio silence. Our GolfCore delay article has the full timeline, but the short version is: don’t buy a ProTee VX expecting GolfCore today. Buy it expecting GSPro integration. Consider GolfCore a future bonus.
When GolfCore does ship, the course library will start from zero and depend entirely on the community to build it. The course editor looked promising in the previews, but a course editor that makes high-quality courses is different from a course editor that’s easy to use. We’ll update this page the moment GolfCore launches.
Which Platform Should You Use?
GSPro if you want the best-looking courses, the most accurate recreations of famous venues, and you’re willing to pay $299/year. This is the default recommendation for the serious golfer who wants a premium sim experience. The VX connects natively with no extra fees, and GSPro’s physics engine is the best in the business.
TGC 2019 if you hate subscriptions, want the largest possible library of courses (including versions of exclusive private clubs you’ll never play in real life), and can tolerate PS3-era graphics. The one-time $995 license is expensive upfront but cheaper than GSPro after 4+ years.
GolfCore when it ships. If you own a VX, it’s free. Wait and see.
How to Install Courses on GSPro
- Open GSPro and navigate to the Course Manager tab
- Browse the available premium courses or search by name
- For community courses, visit the GSPro Discord or courses.gspro.com, download the .gsp or .course file
- Drop the file into Documents/GSPro/Courses/
- Restart GSPro and the course appears in your library
How to Install Courses on TGC 2019
- Open TGC 2019 and go to the Community tab
- Search for the course by name or designer
- Click “Download and Install”
- The course appears in your My Courses list
- For courses downloaded externally, place the .pkg file in Documents/TGC 2019/My Courses/
The Bottom Line
ProTee Labs is the best practice and analytics suite in the overhead launch monitor category. It is not a course library. The VX’s genius is that it lets you choose your course platform — GSPro for premium licensed courses, TGC 2019 for unlimited community content, or GolfCore when it eventually ships.
For the VX owner looking for the best courses to play: connect to GSPro, download Pebble Beach, St Andrews, Sawgrass, Bethpage Black, and Kiawah Island. That’s your starter pack. From there, explore the community designers — they’re building courses that rival the official releases.
The VX gives you the hardware. The course library is up to you. And honestly, that freedom is worth more than any walled garden.
For more on the software itself, check our full ProTee VX review. For how it stacks up against the competition, see our ProTee VX vs Uneekor EYE XO comparison and our best overhead launch monitors guide. For the full sim software landscape, the best golf simulator software guide has every platform ranked.