Monday, November 14, 2016

Designing For A Golf Course Construction In 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.

You must think on the amount of space and time that you will be needing. Designing the course can be very difficult. You surely have a lot of ideas in your mind and if you ever you have some doubts, you can always look for some references such as the internet. And once you already have made a decision and have done it, maintain it, and if basing on the complexity, it would be hard for you to tear it down.

Start thinking on the equipment to be used. Two primary equipment that you need to have are the pitching wedge or the sand wedge and also a putter. These are the two types of golf club that you can only use at the backyard. You may also need to have multiple balls. Acquiring a grass mower is also helpful to easily maintain the grass, making it nice and short.

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.

Mow the fairways. It is suggested that mowing each row will be done alternately to be able to achieve the striped style neatly, and through this, having real fairways can be achieved as well. Usually, the mowing process takes 3 to 4 days but it will depend on the size of the backyard.

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.

Then lastly is maintaining the course. At the real courses, crews are being hired in order to maintain their courses. And since there is no need for you to do the mowing every day, you may just spare about fifteen to twenty minutes of your time to check it.




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