So your telling me I just watched a video that is 31:15 of my life that’s 4 YEARS OLD, and not even have an interest of putting one one these things in my backyard
This is such a thorough video, seriously great job. It's hard to believe that you would make such a good video and I would find myself watching it with no intention of doing it. The music will haunt my dreams.
Hardly. More like maybe a few grand. It's only like a day or 2's work. My mates a concrete layer and I'm sure he'd do it for a hell of a lot less then $40k
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Step 1. Buy it. Step 2. Hire them to install it. Step 3. Enjoy it. I'll go play golf and leave them alone while they put it down the professional way. Great video!
Compactor use, height of cup, and gives you the ability to ensure that is where you want the cup on the green. Placing cup before ground work doesn't ensure the slope or placement you want.
Thank you for this video. Although I did not purchase your green kit, I was able to use this video as a tutorial of sorts for me to build my own. Thank you so much for the detailed documentation.
No doubt. When you have the green laid initially to mark the fringe, you can mark the green and drive a spike through it. Flag the spike hole. Then install all the layers around the cups. I'd also only put in 3, for a green that size, but that's just me.
Thanks so much for such sharing such detailed installation video. This will help me a lot in building my own backyard putting green in the coming weeks.
I watched it three times so far, more to come for certain parts. Retired, I can work on it when bored. I will never putt on it, it would ruin my stroke. It is for the grandkids. Grass will not grow there and it looks cool. Size 12 by 15. Love the comments!
Great video. I’m going to have one built. Planning one 12 x 24, rounded, about 10’ in the middle. I must have missed the part about how you determined the slope. Is one end flat and the other sloped a little with more slope from one end to another? How did you do it? I heard that 3 degrees should maximum.
I have a 20 x 28 and they are only good for about 3 yrs :( they mat down and get faster and harder with time. Eventually, you are putting on a pool table. Not realistic at all!! Now, i ripped it up and grew the real thing. Wish i had that 5k $ back !!
That’s exactly what I was gonba say. Show a true vid of what one of these looks like after just a year or two and it will be the equivalent of putting on a pool table. Not realistic when it’s new, and ridiculously poor after 1-2 seasons of use. If you really want a putting green in your yard put in a real grass green that will last forever if you maintain it and you can easily relocate hole locations as you desire. You’ll have a much more realistic and long time lasting experience. With this poly turf stuff you’ll be doing a full replace every few years, you can’t easily relocate any of the original holes, and the putting is pure shit compared to even a mediocre maintained real grass green.
Outstanding "Super Video! Now planning and installing mine will be alot easier! Thank You very much! ( Planning on designing a "Chess Board" also!) "Man! For rectime I donot have to leave the house!" Thanks!
This is a common theory, however, you wont get the base to be as consistent around the cup if the cup is in the way of your compacting. The base will eventually sag around the cup and the ball will hit the side of the cup instead of dropping in. Good thought though.
God, we now have far too much time on our hands if we are watching the whole of this video as there is absolutely no way any of us are ever gonna make one of these ourselves. Please let the lock down end soon!!!
Bit more to it than I thought with all the base layers but I suppose if ya gunna do something ya might as well do it right and build it to last. Nice work. Don't think I'll be making one anytime soon though lol
At 14:12 when he says that if the ground is sloped the cup should be as well means that your flag that sticks above the hole will not be straight up but hang to one side. That will not look very nice.
Wellllll? Not sure if I'm incouraged or what? That was one heck of a nice video! Here's the thing... I am interested in making a couple (maybe 3 or 4) putting greens. I have room to make a nice little pitch-and-putt. Honestly, I had no idea of what is necessary And boy-oh-boy did I get a education! .... I'd say, that installation/demonstration, at first, made me think "wow, thats a lot of work but, look at that! BEAUTIFUL!" However, the reality of all that effort left me wondering if maybe I could do something less extravagant? Maybe a good short cut of my crabgrass and a good heavy roller with be good enough. And, maybe the cup installation will have to be modified and simplified just a bit... Nonetheless, you guys did a super-duper job! Thanks for showing how to do it. Chuck Wagon
I live in the Northeast US and am installing a putting green. I am wondering about using concrete around the cups. Most installations show using cement around the cup and you don't. Is that better without when you live in and area with snow and frost?
Great question. Be sure to build your base to include the shape of the dug out sand trap. Install the fringe over the hump and allow it to reach below where your sand level will be. Fill the trap as your last step and the sand will hide the edge of your turf. Avoid trying to butt the turf up to sand, it won't last. Hope this helps.
As an example, how much would the materials cost for this particular job?? my garden is about the same. Great job guys, id hire you if I was in your area, but being in UK ill have to do it myself. Thanks
ground tamp it , use 4 inch "U" nails and then hire a greenkeeper to cut the holes (they have the right tool to cut an install the cups) with good planning your putting in 8 hours.
The green itself is held in place by the amount of sand weighing it down (infill) as well as the cups set into the backing. Due to the thin profile of the backing on the green, it's best to not spike it in place as the hot/cold can cause it to expand and contract the slightest bit. This is also why we recommend leaving a 1/8" gap between green and fringe. You can however set the seam tape from your fringe seams a few inches under the edge of the green and glue it if it makes you feel better. It is rare that a green gets spiked, ball roll is far too important.
Hi Bella. I will be using nylon instead of proplene, so what could I do to secure the matting of the green to my base. I wnnt be needing sand infil for nylon, so wondering what to hold it down with. Any tips for allowing for shrinkage and expansion on the green? Also any idea whast clear crush is in aUK jargon, and road base and crusher fines? Thanks so much for advice, I really wish u were near me, I'd hire you guys for sure, this is the best green ive seen to date. And its this video that will guide my DIY install. Thx.
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Legend has it, he's still compacting.... Lol nah but that's too much work. 😅 it came out great but IMHO it seems overdone with all those damn rocks. I figured a single layer and some Underlayment material would be good enough.
Correct. The frost will lift the cup. It is important to NOT use cement. If the base happens to shift over the winter and the cups do raise, they are easy to set back into place by tapping them down with a 2x4 and a hammer. If the concrete block were to lift, it stays up. I hope this helps. Good luck!
Question. Why would you need a base over your fringe? The putting green I realize so the putts roll great but the fringe doesn’t make sense why u need to go thru all that
you don't put cups in you need to use steel post with small flags small poles around make Better aim skills . move cups around also helps traffic patterns you guys are supposed to know this stuff This is a big problem People install shit that never golfed before
Looks like alot of work for a cheap as green, if you do all that base work you might aswell grow and cut it aswell. That cheap mat is trash when you have put in all that work. Could just buy a big sheet of plywood then glue a thin yoga mat to it and put the green ontop of that and u would get about the same result. Plus then it would be movable. Ps for an even cheaper option replace the Bella turf mat with a pool table cloth and you are set.
It's prob be cheaper to buy some decent grass and a good mower and roller and make a real green. Sure you still have to maintain it but I'd prefer real grass to fake grass.
