Putting green

[Hendo007]

Just voted and read through the best part of your game thread and something that GreiginFife said got me thinking, I've stayed in a flat for the past 7 or so years and last year moved into a house with a decent sized garden. I always said when I got my own garden I'd make my own putting green on it.

Has anyone out there done this and if so how'd you go about it ? what like were the results etc ?

 

[Tiger]

Unless its artificial grass I've heard they are very hard work to build and more importantly maintain

 

[MrGoodThingsInLife]

Didn't Rory's dad do this in the smallish garden of their semi?

 

[HawkeyeMS]

I wouldn't even want to imagine how hard keeping a green would be, it's as much as I can do to keep the grass on my garden

 

[Tiger]

Didn't Rory's dad do this in the smallish garden of their semi?

Yes he put down an artificial one

 

[GreiginFife]

It's not as hard as you think. I'm making good progress. It does however take a huge commitment to maintain and you have to do a large amount of prep work (the digging is the worst) but I'm confident that a simple hand mower with very sharp blades and a 50Kg had roller will suffice in keeping it trim (along with bags of lawn feed )

 

[Heidi]

Just voted and read through the best part of your game thread and something that GreiginFife said got me thinking, I've stayed in a flat for the past 7 or so years and last year moved into a house with a decent sized garden. I always said when I got my own garden I'd make my own putting green on it.

Has anyone out there done this and if so how'd you go about it ? what like were the results etc ?

Abby will just cover it with toys...
didnt Ben P turn a corner of his garden into chipping and putting heaven? Its his pic on FB...!

 

[dave]

lots of videos on youtube of people/firms doing this and tbh the artifical ones look pretty good

 

[GreiginFife]

Artificial is ok, but would you like your course if they turned all the greens into astroturf? Grass has the best feel for me and if you play on it in my eyes its best to practice on it. There's not a huge difference in the prep work for both TBH, it's just how committed you would be to maintaining it.

 

[stevelev]

An artificial DIY green for about 5m x 3m you'd be looking at around £900 then the prep, whacker, crusher run, sand, getting rid of spoil. Prob run to about £2k.

The grass green you can nurture your current ground, till the top, let it settle, spend around £300 for the same area of turf, then spend a few hours a week maintaining it, and careful in the winter you don't damage it during frosty spells.

Both good options, cost vs time, I'd go for the artificial one.

 

[GreiginFife]

, spend around £300 for the same area of turf

I have done away with the original turf, dug down, type 1 base and soil/sand mix to a sand/top soil layer then seeded with a good premium seed mix, total cost - £240. So I am getting a completely new lawn area for that.
Winter, for the frost, just lay a tarp over it through the night and lift it in the morning before heading to work.