Overview Grass League is a par 3 golf league played at night under lights, where 11 city franchises send two-player teams after cash purses, and its 2026 franchise owners included Wyndham Clark, Dave Roberts, Good Good Golf and Riot Hospitality. The league calls itself the world's first high-stakes par 3 golf league, and amateurs and professionals play in the same field. Its base is Grass Clippings Rolling Hills, a lighted par 3 course in Tempe, Arizona, which hosts the qualifier, the draft, the Grass Clippings Open and the December championship; the Summer Grind at Goat Hill Park in Oceanside, California, is the league's only tournament outside Arizona. On site The golf is night golf, broadcast live in primetime, and the course runs like a party: music, food, drink and hospitality around the greens. A New York Blue Birds player called the Grass Clippings Open 'a mini Waste Management Open.' The season opens in April with a qualifier where 100 teams chase 24 spots, then a live-streamed draft with a draft party for more than 1,000 fans. The 2026 season ran through the Grass Clippings Open in April, the Bounty Cup in June and the Summer Grind in September, with the championship set for December 4-5 back in Tempe. Alongside the tournaments, the Match Series pits one two-player team per franchise against the others in a season-long single-elimination scramble, played as made-for-YouTube matches; Paige Spiranac hosted the 2026 series. Talent and Influencers Rosters mix tour professionals and amateurs. The 2026 rosters had Ryan Ruffels with the Los Angeles Roses, Jennifer Song with Las Vegas Action, and John Mallinger and Will Wilcox with the Hollywood Hitters, a franchise Mallinger co-owned. Golf Channel ran its 2025 championship story under the headline 'Ruffels Siblings Reign,' for Ryan and Gabriela Ruffels. Parker Reddig and David Bradshaw won the 2026 Summer Grind for the Scottsdale Strikers with a final-round 12 under, finishing 20 under. Track record Meltwater measured the 2025 championship and the weeks after it, from September 11 to December 15, 2025: 1.25 billion in total reach, $11.4 million in advertising value equivalent and more than 1,300 media mentions. In December 2025 Forbes reported that The Sports Group Endeavors paid $1 million for the Las Vegas franchise. Golf Channel, Forbes, MyGolfSpy and Heavy Sports have all covered the league. Brand presence Partners attach to each tentpole - the preseason qualifier and draft, the Grass Clippings Open, the Summer Grind and the championship, with its pre-party, trophy presentations and hospitality - or to properties that run all year. The season-long partner works like the FedEx Cup on the PGA Tour: its name rides on the franchise points race and the player rankings from the qualifier and the draft to the year-end awards and the trophy on the championship podium. Other positions include event naming rights, the beer garden and bar, VIP hospitality, the music venue, the grounds crew, the Match Series and the Todd's Takes show. Franchises, owners, players, broadcast partners, performing artists and influencers all publish around the league, which the league describes as its content flywheel.