FootGolf USA aligns season calendar with weather and travel realities

FootGolf USA has anchored its American season from July to June, a shift it says took effect in 2023 to match the realities of weather, holiday timing, travel costs and long distances across the United States. The calendar now folds the U.S. Amateur Tour and the AFGL Tour into one schedule, giving the domestic game a single competitive rhythm instead of a loose chain of separate events.

That matters because FootGolf in the U.S. is spread across clubs, local circuits and national tournaments that do not live on the same seasonal map. FootGolf USA’s 2024-2026 update says the July-to-June structure lets the league “fully utilize” the country regardless of weather and identify a wider range of states, rather than being boxed in by warmer cities or forced to rush finishes before the holiday stretch. In practice, that makes the calendar a planning tool for players, clubs and organizers who need travel to pencil out months ahead.

The league’s own structure reinforces the point. Its calendar page points players toward The Nationals, the U.S. Open and season archives, while its course pages direct players to official FootGolf courses and tee times. FootGolf USA also says any course on the AFGL map can host a U.S. Amateur FootGolf Tour tournament, which makes the calendar more than a date sheet: it is the framework that links local access to national competition.

The sport’s U.S. timeline shows how quickly that framework had to develop. The American FootGolf League was founded on November 19, 2011, and the first FootGolf tournament in the United States was held on July 22, 2012, at Chula Vista Resort in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. FootGolf USA says the league then spent two years traveling the country with promotional tournaments before launching the U.S. FootGolf Pro-Am in 2014, which later evolved into the U.S. FootGolf Open and its cash purses and international fields.

The early championship scene was small but pointed in the right direction. FootGolf USA says the first U.S. FootGolf National Championship drew 100 players at Sidney Marovitz Golf Course on the shores of Lake Michigan, a field that showed the sport had moved beyond novelty and into organized national competition. By 2023, The Nationals were awarding points for the AFGL Tour, Region 1 North America Tour and FIFG World Tour, and the U.S. hosted FIFG FootGolf World Cup in Orlando drew 972 players from 39 countries over 11 days.

The calendar also sits inside a formal governance structure. The American FootGolf Federation says it governs the sport in the U.S. as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and is the exclusive U.S. member of the Federation for International FootGolf, which recognizes only one national organization per country. FootGolf USA says FIFG has regulated the sport since July 2012 and created the rulebook in 2013, making the seasonal calendar part of the same system that controls licensing, rankings and access to top-level events.