The Fan Indoor Golf League

The season runs Monday, October 26 through Sunday, December 20, 2026: eight consecutive weeks, including Thanksgiving week.

Each registered player receives 8 one-hour league booking credits for the season. Elevate Golf will send booking and setup instructions before play begins. Play any day and any available time, up to one scheduled week ahead, or make up missed rounds later. Play courses in order, without skipping a week and returning later. Complete all eight rounds by Sunday, December 20.

No particular playing day or time is required.

Two players play a 9-hole, two-person scramble each week on that week’s designated GSPro course/nine. All eight weeks use the front nine.

Each player’s tee assignment is based on their normal outdoor tee category: Red, White or Blue. Teammates may play different tees. GSPro yardage ranges will be announced.

Putting is on, with 4-foot gimmies. No mulligans are allowed except for a legitimate simulator or technology malfunction.

Week 1: 0.0 handicap. Gross equals net, with full season points.

For each nine-hole round, differential = team gross score minus par for those nine holes. The handicap for the next round is 90% of the average of your better half of previous Fan League differentials. Best means lowest, including negative differentials.

Previous rounds → differentials used: 1 → best 1; 2 → best 1; 3 → best 2; 4 → best 2; 5 → best 3; 6 → best 3; 7 → best 4.

Use and display one decimal place. The maximum receiving handicap is 9.0 strokes; there is no floor at scratch. Net = gross minus the signed team handicap. Gross 40 with handicap 3.6 gives net 36.4. Gross 33 with handicap −2.0 gives net 35.0.

The handicap used for a played round and its net score are fixed. Later rounds and makeups do not retroactively change them. All team rounds, including substitute rounds, feed the next handicap. This is Elevate’s recreational team system, not GHIN or WHS.

Weekly rankings use 9-hole net team score. Week 1 is scratch, so gross equals net. Weeks 2–8 use gross score adjusted by the Fan League Team Handicap.

Tied teams average the points for the positions they occupy. Week 1 awards normal points.

Best 7 of 8 weeks count. Week 1 can be dropped. The season champion has the highest total points from their best seven weeks.

Season ties are broken in this order: most weekly wins, most second-place finishes, most third-place finishes, then lowest Week 8 net score. Wins, seconds and thirds count across all eight weeks, including the dropped points week.

Optional entry is $5 per player / $10 per team. Both players enter together, and the team must enter and pay before beginning that week’s round. No entry after a round has started or finished.

Skins belong to the scheduled league week/course being played. Teams playing one week ahead may enter that future week’s game normally. Skins close at the end of each scheduled league week. A late makeup can earn an official league score and points and affect future handicap, but cannot enter or affect a skins game that has already closed.

A skin requires the unique lowest gross team scramble score on a hole among that week’s entered teams. If two or more teams tie low, no skin is won on that hole. Handicaps never apply.

The entire weekly skins pot is divided equally among the nine holes. Won skins are paid. Money assigned to unwon holes combines into one carryover pot, rather than individual hole carryovers.

The following week’s new entries plus the previous carryover make the new total pot, which is divided equally across that week’s nine holes. After Week 8, remaining carryover is divided equally among teams that won at least one Week 8 skin. There is no Week 9 carryover.

Substitutes are allowed, with no limit on the number of rounds. A substitute must use their appropriate Red/White/Blue tee category.

A substitute does not create a new team handicap or change the handicap used for that round. Substitute rounds count exactly like normal rounds for the next team handicap, including excellent rounds that lower it. Substitutes do not become owners of the team or its season prize money.

A team cannot play with only one golfer. Use a substitute or make up the round later.

Both players must be 18 or older. Registration closes Sunday, November 1, 2026.

Have your team name ready, plus each player’s full name, email, phone and usual outdoor tee category (Red, White or Blue). Register your team online or choose cash payment at Elevate. Please provide each player’s own accurate email and phone number.

The total entry is $250 per player / $500 per team, paid upfront. Elevate absorbs applicable sales tax and card-processing fees. $100 from every team goes into the season prize pool, which is paid out 100%. Weekly skins are optional and separate.

The top three season teams receive prize money. Payout percentages are determined after registration closes.

Season prizes belong to the two originally registered team members, even when substitutes play. Elevate pays a team prize; the original players are responsible for splitting it.