How to Make an Outdoor Putting Green
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The prospect of creating your own home putting green may have crossed your mind on more than one occasion if you are a passionate golfer or simply want to add some enjoyment to your garden. You might be hesitant to build a natural grass putting green in your garden for the following reasons: 1. The logistics and expenditures of developing and maintaining a real grass putting green may have scared you off. 2. You may be interested to learn that an artificial grass putting green with minimal maintenance requirements or equipment can be built.
In fact, establishing your own putting green is not more difficult than laying any other artificial grass surface. As long as you have enough space in your garden to install your green, you're good to go. |
The Shape of Your Home Practice Putting Green
When it comes to developing home putting green ideas, you'll want to create something that looks similar to the real thing as much as possible. However, because artificial grass rolls are more expensive than normal grass, it's even more vital not to waste or spend extra money by keeping in mind that each fake grass roll is 4 meters wide. Design your putting green to 4m or 8m in one direction, with the other distance more flexible, since it may be trimmed to any length. You seldom come across a completely symmetrical putting green, so why should yours be? Take a look at some of the synthetic putting greens below:
Golf courses are meant to be difficult and testing of the golfer's ability to maneuver the ball around its many obstacles. One of the above examples includes a sand bunker as part of its design, which reflects our third point. You may choose to include this feature depending on space and money availability. If you do, keep in mind that if you build your bunker with natural sand, you should hide it when not in use to avoid unpleasant surprises from the neighbor's cat. Alternatively, white, yellow, or blue artificial grass may be used to create simple-to-maintain features.
Golf courses are meant to be difficult and testing of the golfer's ability to maneuver the ball around its many obstacles. One of the above examples includes a sand bunker as part of its design, which reflects our third point. You may choose to include this feature depending on space and money availability. If you do, keep in mind that if you build your bunker with natural sand, you should hide it when not in use to avoid unpleasant surprises from the neighbor's cat. Alternatively, white, yellow, or blue artificial grass may be used to create simple-to-maintain features.
Choosing the Right Products
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After you've chosen a design for your home putting green and checked the space available to ensure it'll fit, the next step is to select your surface. We have excellent artificial grass golf grasses and accessories from the tee all the way through the fairway and surrounds at Rialto Artificial Grass.
We provide top-of-the-line artificial green golf courses, which offer stimp speeds of approximately. This is a natural-appearing, quick, and consistent surface with the high durability only nylon can provide. If you're on a tighter budget, lower-quality polypropylene surfaces may be supplied; all of which are available here. |
Laying Your Synthetic Grass Ground
The surface must then be raked to remove any ridges or stones before the weed proof membrane is laid, since after that it will not be possible to fill in the area with subbase and fully compacted using a wacker plate. It's time to put your hole cup (or cups) in strategic areas around the golf course once you're satisfied with your contours and levels. Consider where to make your holes so they don't get in the way of putts on the green. The ideal situation is to place the holes in a little amount of sharp sand cement mortar or concrete, which prevents movement; however, it's critical to keep the top level of concrete below the surface so that fine granite can be leveled around the hole without creating a ridge. The hole cup should be set approximately 5mm above the stone level. Now is the time to install your synthetic grass golf course of choice.
When you're finished rolling out and covering the lawn, overlap any seams by about 25mm and roughly trim off the extra around the perimeter as directed in your home putting green plan. Leaving your fake grass to rest for 12 hours or longer is a wonderful idea at this point since it will allow any folds to fall out and the grass to relax into its natural form. |
On a larger green, you'll almost certainly require more than one roll of grass to cover the putting green - for this, you'll need jointing tape and glue. The bottom of the grass is trimmed with jointing tape and adhesive, two rolls carefully stuck together. Trim two or three rows of tufts from each grass roll's edge using a sharp carpet knife before applying the adhesive. Next, line up the grass so that the distance between each pair of grass is equal to that between all of the other rows. If you place them too closely together, a little raised ridge will develop. Similarly, if you put them too far apart, a gap may be visible.
In order for perfect seams to appear, take your time on this portion and make sure the seam is nearly undetectable. Use small nails to keep the grass in position after you've applied the adhesive to the tape and aligned the edges. Until the glue has set, use some tiny diameter nails to pin down the grass. While it's setting, apply some downward pressure on the join to ensure good contact between the glue tape and grass backing. |
