Minor League Golf

What Minor League Golf does

Minor League Golf (MLGT), operated by Shootpar Enterprises, LLC, is a developmental professional golf tour founded in 2004 and headquartered in Jupiter, Florida. It runs a year-round schedule of tournaments across the Southeast USA targeted at aspiring professional golfers and competitive amateurs, with 2,300+ tournaments staged and 5,000+ players served since inception. The tour's core technology is a web-based tournament management and live scoring platform that supports multiple event formats, including standard and Training Divisions, Skins Games, Bonus Pools, Q-School Contests, and Monday Qualifier Contests.

The business model is built on diversified participation-based revenue: per-round tournament entry fees ($200–$290 regular, $90–$150 Training), tiered membership subscriptions (ranging from $50 Tour-level to $400 Founders/Legacy tiers), Skins Game entries (~$20/round), Bonus Pool entries, and $200 Q-School Contest fees. Commercial sponsorship supplements this, with recent partners including Britto & Herman, Abacoa Golf Club, Arise, BlueTide Communications, and Tremont. The operation is lean — approximately 8 employees — enabling year-round scheduling at low overhead.

MLGT's strategic positioning rests on a verified alumni pipeline: 110 players in its network currently hold PGA Tour or Korn Ferry Tour status for 2026, with notable alumni including major winners Brooks Koepka, Daniel Berger, and Keegan Bradley. The tour has awarded 51 checks of $10,000 or more through 2025 and has paid out $18,267,419.30 in cumulative player earnings since founding. Operation remains geographically concentrated in the Southeast USA, with no disclosed expansion outside that region.

Name

Minor League Golf

Legal name

Shootpar Enterprises, LLC

Website

https://minorleaguegolf.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Minor League Golf is a developmental professional golf tour operating in the Southeast USA under Shootpar Enterprises, LLC. It serves aspiring pros and competitive amateurs with year-round tournaments, web-based live scoring, and a tiered membership and entry-fee revenue model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Golf Tour Services

NAICS

Spectator Sports (71121)

SIC

Services-Membership Sports & Recreation Clubs (7997), Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Golf Tours & Professional Circuits (MPAKAAAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Sport-Specific Amateur Leagues & Circuits (Non-Professional) (MPAKACAJ), Youth & Amateur Sports Tournaments (MPAGAMAF)

Keywords

• Developmental golf tour
• Professional golf tournaments
• Mini tour events
• Golf tour membership
• Qualifying school contests

Headquarters

HQ city

Jupiter

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Tournament Entry Fees: Players pay entry fees ranging from $200-$290 per day for regular events and $90-$150 per day for Training Division events. Majors and special multiple-day events may have higher entry fees. Entry fees vary based on venue, payout type, payout percentage, and time of year.
2. Tour Membership Fees: Membership tiers include Single Event ($50), One Month ($100), Three Month ($200), Six Month ($300), and One Year ($400). Memberships can be upgraded in $50 minimum increments.
3. Skins Game Entries: Optional skins game entry fee of approximately $20 per round. 100% of skins pot goes to players. Paid via direct deposit like regular earnings for professionals; amateurs receive gift certificates.
4. Bonus Pool Entries: Optional bonus pool entries where 100% of the bonus pool entry goes into the bonus pool purse. The bonus pool has a 33% payout structure.
5. Qualifying School Contest Entries: Optional $200 entry into Qualifying School Contests where winners receive $5,000 bonuses to put towards Q-School entry fees.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Minor League Golf operates a developmental professional golf tour (MLGT) that runs 1-day, multi-day, and major golf tournaments for aspiring professional golfers and low-handicap amateurs, primarily in the Southeast United States. Players pay tournament entry fees and tour memberships to compete for prize purses, with the tour functioning as a low-cost proving ground for players attempting to reach the PGA Tour or Korn Ferry Tour. The organization also operates Training Division events, Monday Qualifier Contests, Qualifying School Contests, and an annual Tour Championship.

Product overview

Minor League Golf is a professional golf tour and competitive event platform offering developmental mini-tours for aspiring professional golfers. The platform provides Regular Division Events for professionals and amateurs with USGA handicaps of 6.0 or less, a Training Division with lower entry costs and gift certificate prizes, Monday Qualifier Contests with PGA TOUR qualifying money, and Qualifying School Contests awarding $5k bonuses for Q-School entries. The platform operates Major Events with larger purses and hosts an annual Tour Championship. Supporting features include a tiered Membership Program (Single Event through One Year), a Live Scoring System for real-time tournament tracking, a Bonus Pool System for optional additional prize money, and Skins Games for per-hole competition. Entry fees range from $200-$290 per day for regular events and $90-$150 for Training Division events, with payout formulas of 33%, 40%, or 50% depending on the event.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Regular Division Events

Quantifiable outcome

• 110 MLGT alumni achieved 2026 PGA Tour or Korn Ferry Tour status
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Britto & Herman Injury LawyerscoreGTM or Marketing PartnerPresenting sponsor of Qualifying School Contests. Winners receive $5,000 bonuses to put towards Q-School entry fees. Six contests are held annually.
• Abacoa Golf ClubcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerSponsor of Monday Qualifier Contests. Seven contests held annually where players can earn $1,000 towards a PGA TOUR or Korn Ferry Tour Qualifier.
• Shootpar Enterprises, LLCcoreTechnology or IntegrationProvider of live scoring technology for tournaments. The website footer indicates copyright to Shootpar Enterprises, LLC, suggesting this company provides the tournament scoring infrastructure.
• AriseminorGTM or Marketing PartnerSponsor adding $1,000 to purse for Major III events at Innisbrook Copperhead.
• BlueTide InsuranceminorGTM or Marketing PartnerSponsor of 2025 Tour Championship presented by Abacoa GC and BlueTide Insurance.
• TremontminorGTM or Marketing PartnerSponsor of various events including Martin County Open.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• United States Golf Association (USGA): The national governing body of amateur golf in the U.S., which sets the handicap rules (e.g., USGA Handicap 6.0 cutoff for MLGT Regular Division eligibility) and Rules of Amateur Status that govern MLGT's amateur prize structure. Relevant as the regulatory framework and amateur ecosystem feeder for MLGT's Training Division and amateur participants.
• PGA Tour: The premier U.S. professional golf tour and the ultimate destination for MLGT alumni success stories. Comparable as the apex of the developmental pyramid MLGT feeds into, with overlapping tournament operations and sponsor ecosystem but vastly larger scale.
• LPGA Tour: Premier women's professional golf tour referenced in MLGT's target player segment ("PGA, Korn Ferry, PGA Americas, DP World, Champions and LPGA Tours"). Comparable as a destination tour with overlapping tournament formats, sponsor categories, and developmental pathway structure.

Direct peers

• Epson Tour (formerly Symetra Tour): The official developmental tour of the LPGA, providing women professional golfers a competitive pathway to the LPGA Tour. Directly comparable as a tour-format developmental circuit with frequent tournament play and purse structures tied to performance.
• GOLFslinger Tour: Another Florida-based developmental mini-tour that previously served as title sponsor of MLGT (then FuZion MLGT) from 2010-2014. Competes for the same aspiring professional golfer segment with similar low entry-fee, frequent-tournament positioning in the Southeast U.S.
• PGA Tour Americas: PGA Tour-operated developmental tour serving Latin America and North America. Competes with MLGT for aspiring professionals seeking tournament experience and Korn Ferry Tour pathway, but with higher purses and institutional PGA Tour backing.
• Korn Ferry Tour: The PGA Tour's official developmental circuit offering higher purses and direct path to PGA Tour status. MLGT alumni frequently advance to the Korn Ferry Tour as a stepping stone to the PGA Tour, making it the most directly comparable developmental tour for MLGT's player base.
• All Pro Tour: A U.S.-based developmental mini-tour offering affordable competitive golf for aspiring professionals. Directly comparable to MLGT in target customer, business model, and positioning as a developmental proving ground for higher-level tours.
• Advocates Professional Golf Association (APGA): A developmental professional golf tour focused on increasing diversity in professional golf. Comparable as a parallel developmental circuit serving a specific player segment with tournament-based competition and a pathway to higher tours.
• Swing Thought Tour: U.S. developmental mini-tour offering low-cost tournament play for aspiring professional golfers. Closely mirrors MLGT's value proposition of affordable, frequent competitive rounds for players building experience to qualify for PGA/Korn Ferry tours.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/minorleaguegolftour
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/minor-league-golf

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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