AFGL-100 FootGolf stop set for Monarch Bay in San Leandro

FootGolf USA put the Southwest FootGolf Tour’s Monarch Bay stop on live-scoring watch at Monarch Bay Golf Course in San Leandro, a Saturday AFGL-100 event listed as “Southwest FootGolf Tour - Saturday Monarch Bay” at Monarch Bay GC - Marina. The start time was set for 2:00 PM on Saturday, July 26, and the event sat among the day’s most important FootGolf dates because of its ranking value and real-time tracking.

The tournament carried the AFGL-100 designation, and a related AFGL listing for “SW Tour SUN Monarch Bay” set registration to begin Mar. 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM PDT, with an entry deadline of Jul. 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM PDT. Teams paid $23 to enter, with a $5 late fee after Jul. 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM PDT. That structure made Monarch Bay more than a local stop: it was a points event with a clear cost, deadline and scoring format that competitors could plan around.

Monarch Bay has long been one of the West Coast’s more recognizable FootGolf venues because of its setting. San Leandro describes Monarch Bay Golf Club as sitting just feet from the San Francisco Bay and offering bay views from every hole, a layout that adds pressure to a scoring round where distance control and placement matter as much as power. In a live-scoring environment, every hole becomes part of the standings picture, which is exactly what gives an AFGL-100 stop its edge for players chasing consistency.

The ranking stakes were easy to see from AFGL’s own tournament pages. A prior Monarch Bay event page listed the tournament as worth 100 points for the AFGL Ranking, 50 points for the Region 1 Ranking and 50 points for the World Tour Ranking. That kind of points spread can alter regional positions quickly, especially when it lands in midsummer and sits inside a broader run of league play.

The larger FootGolf backdrop also matters here. The American FootGolf Federation says it introduced FootGolf to North America in 2011 and describes itself as the governing body of the sport in the United States. Against that history, a live-scored stop at Monarch Bay showed how organized the competitive side of the game has become: named tour, fixed fees, ranking points and a venue built to test players hole by hole.