Can You Play Crooked Stick on GSPro? Here's How

Crooked Stick is available on GSPro, and the community LIDAR build gives you access to one of Pete Dye’s earliest and most influential designs — the course where an unknown John Daly drove the green on the par-4 18th in a playoff to win the 1991 PGA Championship. Crooked Stick was Dye’s first solo design, and it established the Dye template: railroad ties, pot bunkers, railroad ties, visual intimidation, and strategic options that look impossible from the tee but reveal themselves on approach.

The GSPro build captures the modern routing, including the changes made for the 2016 BMW Championship. The course is defined by its strategic corridors — wide fairways that tighten at landing zones, green complexes that fall away into collection areas, and the Dye signature of making you commit to a shot before you see the full picture.

Quality Assessment

The LIDAR build of Crooked Stick is a clean conversion. The course sits on flat Indiana terrain, so the challenge is entirely in the bunkering and the green complexes rather than elevation. The LIDAR captures the subtle interior contouring of the greens and the aggressive bunker shaping that defines Dye’s work.

The signature — the 18th hole where Daly drove the green — is a 451-yard par-4 with water down the left and bunkers right. The LIDAR build accurately represents the landing angle and the run-up to the green. The par-3s — particularly the 206-yard sixth over water and the 147-yard 13th with its island green — translate well to GSPro physics.

Visual quality is standard LIDAR. Crooked Stick is a prairie course with wind as a primary defense, and the open landscape renders better than tight parkland courses.

How to Access

Search “Crooked Stick” in the GSPro course installer. The most popular LIDAR build is the modern post-BMW Championship routing. Download through the in-client manager.

Available at no extra cost beyond your GSPro subscription.

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Courses to Compare

Crooked Stick is the original Pete Dye template. Compare it to Whistling Straits on GSPro to see how Dye’s style evolved from inland parkland to coastal links. Kiawah Island Ocean on GSPro completes the Dye trilogy.