Friday, November 18, 2016

Tips On Designing Golf Course Construction For The Backyard

By John Green


Golf courses are the grounds where in the golf game is being played. The grounds are comprised of many holes and each of it has a fairway, teeing ground, rough and some other hazards, and also green which has a pin or a flag stick and a hole cup. Golf has the standard round having 18 holes.

Usually, courses are following those original landscapes that are being used since before, but some of the grounds have been modified. For some cases, courses are also built on those lesser optimal type of lands. If you are really obsessed on the sport and you are wishing to design one in your own backyard, try following these simple steps for golf course construction.

Think first about the time and space amounts that are needed during the construction. Designing courses is difficult. Surely, you will be thinking of many ideas and you cannot avoid doubting some of those. Having some references like researching on the internet can help. So if you have chosen already your design and started doing the process, make sure that you can maintain it, because if you are doing a complex design, redoing it might be hard.

Next is to consider on purchasing the needed tools and equipment. Putter and pitching or sand wedge are two equipment that are primarily used for the game. These two wedge clubs only are going to be used for backyard golf. You will also be needing multiple balls. Grass mowers are needed as well so that the maintenance of grass can be done easily, making it shorter and nicer.

Then after, you decide on the ground type that you will be using for your course. If the land you own has a very large area and you wanted to spend time to maintain it by yourself, a par four or a par five type is suggested. For backyards that only have average sizes, a par three type is fine. Be sure that when designing the lands, it must have flat surfaces and must have less bumps, which means it do not contain any hills and slopes.

Start mowing the fairway. One good suggestion for this process is mowing alternately each row, in this way, mowing can be neatly done and this will result to a striped style, and thus, achieving the real fairway. Usually, mowing may take up to three to four days but this will depend upon the backyard size.

Then start on mowing the green. When mowing the green, set the blades of the mower into its lowest setting to make the grass really short. Try on placing the green on a backyard surface that has the flattest area. It is recommended for greens to be mowed every two days. Do not connect green and fairway because a rough will be placed in between them.

Create either two or three sand traps or some hazards. These materials can be purchased from hardware stores in the nearby places. Sand traps are positioned alongside the fairways and alongside, front, or behind the green.

Lastly, do a regular maintenance of the course. In real courses, people are going to hire professional crews for the maintenance of their courses. But in your case, mowing every day is not needed, so just give time to check it, may be for about 15 to 20 minutes.




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