> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://gspro.gitbook.io/gspro-knowledge-base/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://gspro.gitbook.io/gspro-knowledge-base/play-main-menu/play-setup.md).

# Play (Setup)

This mode is played locally with the players present at your sim bay or by yourself. It is a self-contained round of golf to enjoy that up to 8 players can be selected to play. (Players are added in the “Player Settings” menu for detailed creation or quickly added in Play) When selecting “Play”, another selection menu will be presented.

## Select Course

In the following page, you can utilize the following navigation tools to find all courses offerd to GSPro. 

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1. **Select Course:** This search bar allows you to search through the list of courses by Name, Location, and Designer.
2. **Filters:** On the far right are all of the filters to help locate or thin out specific courses.
   1. Reset: At any time, you can reset the filters to the default from this button.
   2. Random: When selected, GSPro will randomly select a course from the list of courses shown with your Filters configured.
   3. Course Count: When typing your course name or applying filters, you can find the total amount of courses found in this count.
   4. Installed: These are the courses you've already downloaded to the PC. (In addition, all courses from the "Verified" course list will be shown)
   5. All: When enabled, you're free to view all courses currently offered to GSPro.
   6. Trending: On top of other filters, top picked/played courses will be displayed to the top of your list.
   7. Favorites: After marking a course with the heart icon, those courses can be found quickly by enabling this filter.
   8. Collections: To view specific collections of courses, you can select one of the offered groups. If you'd like, you can also create your own collection with the "+" icon adjacent to the "Collections" text. With later steps, you can add those courses to your created collections.
   9. Quick Filters: This filter allows you to rotate between popular, newer, never before played, and courses you manually hide with later steps.
   10. Sort: You can sort your courses alphabetically and by date created.
   11. Difficulty: Later, you'll be shown the steps to rate courses and rate their difficulty. By utilizing this filter, you can adjust the courses shown by that group rated difficulty.
   12. Country: Simple enough, you can sort courses by country location.
   13. Course Style: Here, you can adjust the style of courses shown based on some miscellaneous options such as Par 3, Fantasy, Training, ect.
3. Course Name: At the far left, you can find each course name.<br>

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4. Course Location: Adjacent to the course name, you can find the location the course is from.<br>

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5. Course Designer/s: Adjacent to course location, you'll find the course designer.\
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6. Favorite/Course Information: Adjacent to the course designer, you can favorite a course with the heart shown below and reveal the course information side panel with the small "Sheet" icon.<br>

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7. Play: Another simple button found by the Favorite option. Selecting this button will advance you to the next menu options shown below.<br>

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8. Course Information Panel: Here, you can view all the above detailed information tied to the course selected in addition to the following actions/features:
   1. Add To Collection: By selecting the small "+" icon under the course image, you can add the course to your own created course collection.
   2. Hide Course: If you want to remove a course from ever popping up in the shown course lists, selecting the small "eye" icon under the course image will put that course into the "Hidden" course filter.
   3. Trash: Selecting the "trash" icon under the course image will uninstall the course from your PC.
   4. Description: Here, you can view a full in depth description of the course before deciding if you want to download it to your PC.
   5. Location/Version/Date Updated: Listed here, you'll find more in depth information on the version the course has been updated to, when it was updated, and the location set for the course.
   6. Latest Scores: You can find your latest three played final scores here.
   7. Round History: By selecting the small "clipboard" icon adjacent to Latest Scores, you can view all previous scorecards from that course. &#x20;

## Round Settings

Once you select a course that you want to play, the following options and setup is presented to you. There are 3 tabs to review before starting your round.

1. **Players.**
2. **Match**
3. **Holes.**

### Players

Here you can add players for the round, and change some of their settings/teams.

1. **Select A Player:** To select a player, click on the dropdown arrow adjacent to the first player selected. If you’d like to add more than one player, simply click on the plus in one of the available squares and select your new player.
2. **Tee:** For each player, you can use the default tees for the match, (on Match Settings tab) or select your specific tee by selecting the "Match Settings" dropdown menu under the player's name.&#x20;
3. **Change Team/Color:** If you are playing a team event, change the colors of each player to match a “Team Color”. If you’re playing an individual event, each player will have their own colors by default.
4. **Invite Players:** If you’d like to turn your Local Match into an Online Match, click “Invite Players” to change the match to Online.
5. **Create New Player:** If you’d like to create a temporary player that won’t get added to your list of players, select “Create New Player”, and fill out their player name.
6. **Head To The Range:** Not quite ready to play on the course, press head to the range to play on the range created for that specific course. (Some courses may not included their own range)
7. **Play Course:** Once you’re ready to start the round, click play!

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### Match

There is a large variety of ways to make each round unique. The setup of the round is very customizable. There can be several choices for each item on this menu. It can look like a lot when first glancing at it, but in time it will become second nature and you will know how you like your rounds to be setup.&#x20;

{% hint style="info" icon="golf-flag-hole" %}
***BUILDER SETTINGS:*** If you'd wish, you can utilize the default settings the course designer intended when building the course by selecting this button found at the top right corner of the application.
{% endhint %}

#### **Round:**

1. **Game Mode:** Select Stroke Play, Scramble, Match Play, Alternate Shot (Stroke), Best Ball, Stableford, or Shamble.
2. **Tee Box:** This is the tee box globally selected if not specified by player in the “Players” tab.
3. **Pins:** You can alternate the pin from Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.
4. **Gimme/Auto Putt:** Select distance to cup (2,4,5,6,8,10,12,16,18,20), Auto-Putt Fixed , Auto-Putt Random, AutoPutt Fixed w/Chip, Pick Your Putt, or Putt Out.&#x20;
5. **Mulligans:** Here you can turn Mulligans On or Off (CTRL+M is the keyboard shortcut in game for taking a mulligan)
6. **Resume Round:** If a previous round for this course was ended prior to completion, there will be the ability to resume that round from were you left off. Turning this slider on will ghost out all the other settings. This is due to the fact you will be forced to use the previous rounds settings as they were when you ended the round. This includes local multi-player rounds. If you were playing with 3 local players, then all 3 will be present in the resume. If you wish to start a new round, leave this slider turned off.

#### **Course:**

1. **Course Type:** Alternating between three course profiles for ball physics experienced, you can select "Parkland Soft", "Sawgrass Firm", and "Traditional Links". For more information one what each profile offers, check out our Physics V2.1 page [here](/gspro-knowledge-base/in-game-information/gspro-physics-2.1.md).
2. **Green Firmness:** Three different settings from Soft, Medium, and Firm.
3. **Fairway Firmness:** Similar to the above, you can select between the Soft, Medium, and Firm settings.
4. **Elevation:** Use this setting to choose between Global, (The Global Elevation set in your Game Settings)  or Course elevation set by the course designer.
5. **Stimp:** This setting will change the speed in which the greens will roll.&#x20;
   1. As each sim environment is different and the turf material utilized can give differernt experienced putting speeds, we'd recommend experimenting with this setting until the speed of your physical putt matches the putt seen in GSPro.
6. **Wind:** Here you can change the wind from No Wind, Calm, Breezy, Gusty.
   * Calm: 0-5 mph
   * Breezy: 5-10 mph
   * Gusty: 10-25 mph
7. **Realism:** Toggle this option between “Force Realistic”, (Forces all realistic options negating any player casual selected settings) or the “Player Settings” that each player uniquely creates.

#### **Assistance:**

1. **Concede:** With this setting, you set the maximum score reached before a hole will be automatically conceded. (Must have “Auto” check box adjacent enabled)
2. **Putting Forgiveness:** This setting offers an amount of “forgiveness” or makes lipping and jumping out of holes easier/harder.
3. **Putting Assistance:** Turn on/off the games ability to semi-autocorrect ball line when putting. Some Launch Monitors will skew ball roll +/- when putting. This will ensure that skew is no more than 2 degrees.
4. **Putting Auto Aim:** GSPro will aim your putt for you (just cant hit it for you though)
5. **Breakline Indicator:** Turn on/off to enable or disable the ‘aiming stick’. This red stick has a white tail that indicates the amount of break in the green and its severity. Longer the white tail, the more severe the break.
6. **Handicap Scoring:** On or Off. This is used to automatically tally Net scores if Handicap between golfers is set in player configuration. Scoreboard will reflect handicapped scoring.

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### Holes

Here, you can simply select which holes you’d wish to play. By default all 18 holes will be selected. Uncheck individual holes if you’d wish to not play them, or uncheck whole front 9/back 9 holes with the “Front 9" and “Back 9” check boxes.

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