ONEDER SHOT: $10M Amateur Golf on TrackMan Sims

A $10 million prize pool. A floating green in Riyadh. A single 160-yard shot to decide the winner. And the whole thing runs through the TrackMan simulator in your local indoor golf facility. For more context, see our sim golf career earning potential and sim golf prize money ecosystem.

ONEDER SHOT, which launched its inaugural season this week, is the kind of thing that makes you stop and question whether you’re taking the sim golf industry seriously enough. See our [sim golf career earning potential guide](/blog/sim-golf-career-earning-potential-2026/) and sim golf prize money ecosystem for context on the competitive sim golf landscape. The world’s first global amateur golf competition platform just opened qualification through more than 6,500 simulator venues worldwide — all powered by TrackMan — and the prize is $10 million.

Let me repeat that number, because it deserves to sit alone for a second: $10 million.

For amateur golfers. On simulators. It’s the kind of thing that would have sounded like a fever dream five years ago, back when the idea of getting paid to play simulator golf was something you’d joke about with your buddies after a few beers in the garage bay.

How ONEDER SHOT Works

The format is simple enough that it doesn’t need a page of fine print to explain.

You walk into any TrackMan-equipped simulator venue — there are 6,500+ of them globally — and pay $10 for five shots. That’s it. Five swings. Your best attempt gets logged on both a weekly leaderboard and a global leaderboard. The system tracks everything automatically through ONEDER TV, the platform’s proprietary streaming and ranking system.

The qualifying hole is standardized across every venue, which means your five shots in a Dallas sim bay are directly comparable to someone’s five shots in a London sim bay or a Seoul sim bay. That’s the whole point. The competition is the same, everywhere, for everyone.

From there, the top performers advance through a playoff system that unfolds across some of Saudi Arabia’s most recognizable destinations — AlUla, Diriyah, Qiddiya, the Red Sea — before narrowing to the top 10. Those final 10 competitors fly to Riyadh for a single 160-yard shot to a floating green at BLVD World.

One shot. Floating green. $10 million on the line.

That’s the kind of television that writes itself.

Why This Matters for Sim Golf

The ONEDER SHOT model is the most direct validation yet of something the sim industry has been claiming for years: that simulator golf isn’t just practice for the real thing, but a legitimate competitive platform in its own right.

The numbers back it up. The off-course golf market — simulators, entertainment venues, digital competition platforms — is already worth more than $5 billion globally and is projected to reach $10 billion as technology reshapes how the game is played. That’s the same trajectory that ONEDER SHOT is betting on.

But here’s what makes this different from the sim tournaments you’ve seen before. ONEDER SHOT isn’t a niche thing for sim nerds. It’s a mainstream broadcast property with a $10 million prize, a Saudi government connection, and a broadcast deal on MBC1 and Shahid that will reach millions of viewers across the Middle East and North Africa. The finale is designed as a television spectacle — a single shot to a floating green, with the backdrop of one of the most ambitious entertainment projects in the world.

This is the sim golf equivalent of going from your local Friday night poker game to the World Series of Poker. Same game. Completely different scale.

The PIF Context

ONEDER SHOT launches at a moment of transition for Saudi Arabia’s relationship with golf. The Public Investment Fund announced this week that it will end its backing of LIV Golf after the 2026 season, after investing more than $5 billion into the breakaway tour. LIV has reportedly lost upwards of $1 billion since launch, and the PIF is shifting its strategy toward domestic projects that generate stronger economic returns within Saudi Arabia.

This is where ONEDER SHOT fits. Rather than bankrolling a rival tour that competes with the PGA for a shrinking pool of elite talent, the PIF is pivoting toward a platform that connects amateur players, technology, media, and tourism in a way that aligns with Vision 2030.

The shift is smarter than it looks. LIV Golf spent billions to get a few dozen pros to play in front of sparse crowds. ONEDER SHOT spends a fraction of that to get hundreds of thousands of amateurs competing at 6,500+ venues worldwide, with a built-in media engine and a direct pipeline to Saudi tourism. The ROI math is not even close.

For the sim industry, the PIF pivot is a net positive. LIV’s model was: buy a tour, disrupt the establishment, generate controversy. ONEDER SHOT’s model is: buy sim infrastructure, activate the amateur base, generate participation. One of those is sustainable. The other was a loss leader that cost $1 billion.

What This Means for Home Sim Owners

If you have a sim setup at home, ONEDER SHOT isn’t directly available to you — you need to go to a TrackMan-equipped venue to qualify. But the implications for your home setup are significant.

Standardized competition is the next frontier. The Evenplay Index launched earlier this month with a similar thesis: that sim golf needs a standardized way to measure and compare skill across different venues and platforms. ONEDER SHOT takes that concept and wraps a $10 million tournament around it. If the economics work — and with 6,500+ venues, they’re already working — you can expect more competition platforms to follow.

TrackMan’s infrastructure advantage is real. There’s a reason ONEDER SHOT chose TrackMan as its technology partner. TrackMan has the deepest penetration in commercial venues worldwide. When you’re building a global competition that needs to work the same way in every venue, you pick the platform that’s already there. This is the same reason why TGL uses Full Swing, why Five Iron uses TrackMan, and why the PGA Tour uses ShotLink. For home sim buyers, the takeaway is: the hardware you choose connects you to a broader ecosystem. The Garmin R10 in your garage won’t qualify you for ONEDER SHOT. The TrackMan at your local Five Iron will.

The amateur market is about to get a lot more attention. When a $10 million prize pool is on the line for amateurs, the entire competitive landscape shifts. Expect more venues, more leagues, more tournaments, and more technology investment aimed at the recreational golfer who wants to compete. That’s good for everyone who owns a sim.

The Final Shot

The finale is the kind of thing that makes traditional golf purists clutch their pearls. A 160-yard shot to a floating green at BLVD World, with $10 million riding on it. No 18-hole round. No back-nine drama. Just one swing, one ball, one chance.

That’s not golf the way Ben Hogan played it. But it’s exactly the kind of golf that works on television, that gets casual fans talking, and that makes a 15-handicap think “I could do that.”

And the beautiful thing is, they can. For $10, at any of 6,500+ sim venues, five shots to qualify. The best amateur in the world might be sitting in a garage right now, hitting balls into a screen, with no idea that a $10 million shot is waiting for them in Riyadh.

That’s not a marketing pitch. That’s the reality of where sim golf is going, and it’s happening faster than anyone expected.