Outdoor Golf Greens: A Guide to Design and Installation
The six-footer leaves your putter on a perfect line, then wobbles left a foot short. The stroke was fine. The surface wasn’t. That’s the quiet fear behind every home green project: spending thousands on something bumpy, slow or soggy. The … Continued
Not All “Putting Grass” is Created Equal: A Buyer’s Guide
Two backyard greens are laid with putting grass that looks identical in the installer’s photos. Three summers later, one still rolls true. The other is faded, lumpy and lifting at the seams, and putts break where there is no slope. … Continued
No Yard? No Problem. A Guide to Patio Putting Greens
You own a putter, a short game that has stopped improving, and a slab of concrete out back that mostly holds a grill. That slab is one of the best head starts a patio putting green could ask for. Yes, … Continued
More Than a Putt: Designing a Chipping Green for Your Backyard
Designing a chipping green for your backyard is three decisions: Shot list first, then stations and lanes, then a pile height and density per zone. Design the surfaces you hit from, not just the one you hit at. Decide which … Continued
Maximize Your Small Backyard: Designing the Perfect Putting Green
Yes, it will fit. A small putting green backyard that actually challenges you needs roughly 100 to 200 square feet, and the shape you give that space matters far more than how much of it you have. A compact green … Continued
Inspiring Backyards: A Gallery of Homes with Putting Greens
Eighteen months ago it was a rectangle of tired grass. Forty minutes on the mower every week, brown by August, crossed daily and used never. Now the back door opens onto a putting surface with three cups and a real … Continued
Go Green in More Ways Than One: The Eco-Friendly “Green” Backyard
How to make a backyard eco-friendly? Divide it into three zones: a living zone of native plants, trees, and pollinator beds does the ecological work, a closed-loop zone of compost, mulch, and rain capture recycles what the yard produces, and … Continued
Go Big or Go Home: Designing a Large Outdoor Putting Green
It’s dusk. The lights come up over a green that already looks like it belongs at a club — a clean sweep of surface that breaks the way a real course breaks, a fringe collar hugging the edge, a chipping … Continued
Fresh Ideas for Your Backyard Putting Green Design
Fresh backyard putting green ideas start with how you shape and position the green within your yard. Design it like a course architect, not a landscaper. The novelty comes from shifting the mindset: From shape-as-decoration to shape-as-strategy From flat surfaces … Continued
Everything You Need to Know About Artificial Outdoor Putting Greens
An artificial outdoor putting green looks like a turf-shopping decision: pick the most realistic grass, roll it out, start sinking putts. But the turf you can see only performs if the base, drainage, and infill beneath it are engineered to … Continued
