Best putting green for your home

muganj

Hi guys

Can anyone recommend a Putting Green for the home ?

Something realistic

Thanks

stockdam

Can you clarify what you mean?

A real outdoor green?
How much money do you have and how much time per week do you have to attend to it?

A plastic outdoor alternative?

Or are you taking about an indoor version?

Or do you want the cheapest and best value (a short pile carpet)?

muganj

Agreed not very descriptive of me

I am after an indoor mat or green. not something too cheap rather one that is a realistic grass alternative

2 to 3 meters long preferably

GreeBo

I think carpet is fine for practicing your putting, it's smooth and pretty level, if you got bad pots on the carpet then you know it's you and not the surface.

Dr_Colossus

Carpet is indeed fine, preferably a fairly low pile one. However I've wooden floors in our house so I got the Eyeline Golf Perfect Line Putting Mat
http://www.amazon.com/Eyeline-Golf-Perfect-Putting-10-Feet/dp/B0059S7VH8
last winter for practicing. I got it in Halpenny during one of their sales for €60, I could have just sourced a length of carpet cut off but got the above in exchange for a voucher I won. It's a fairly big contraption but I find it good with the regulation size and smaller size holes and the pace/feel is representative of a good quality green.

alxmorgan

If you want something more realistic and are prepared to pay for it then these guys:

http://www.sanctuarysynthetics.ie/products

Will sell you some to lay down indoors.

The rolls are 4m wide.
So if you got say 4m x 1m = 4m2 this would be approx 12ft long by 3ft wide.

So 4m2 @ €60/m would cost you €240 plus a small courier charge to get it down to you ( approx €15 no more )

I know this as I enquired myself. They will send you out a sample if you wish.
Get them on info@sanctuarysynthetics.ie

saintastic

We have wooden floors as well. Would it be possible to get a spare piece of carpet that a shop or a carpenter would be throwing away? Where would you go for this?

Wombatman

Got this in Lidl last week. Perfect with upsidedown shoe box with arch cut into side.

Might be a few left around
http://www.lidl.ie/cps/rde/xchg/lidl_ri_ie/hs.xsl/index_29840.htm

Wombatman

Artificial Grass Carpet back in ALDI

https://www.aldi.ie/en/specialbuys/sunday-27th-april/products-detail-page/ps/p/artificial-grass-carpet/

hades

What i've found that has helped me hugely is putting on my wooden floors along the join. I've laminated floors, so there's no groove to hold the ball in place, so i have to focus on hitting the ball directly down the line, it also helps for lining up with the putter and ball line.

It wouldn't help much for judging pace, but its great for working on your technique.

hades

Funnily enough, they just gave a very similar practice technique to my wooden floors technique mentioned above on the golf channel last night.

http://www.golfchannel.com/media/rory-mcilroy-improves-putting-wells-fargo/

Disclosure - i think i either got the drill from a dave stockton book, just one of those things you pick up from reading lots

PARlance

hades wrote: »

What i've found that has helped me hugely is putting on my wooden floors along the join. I've laminated floors, so there's no groove to hold the ball in place, so i have to focus on hitting the ball directly down the line, it also helps for lining up with the putter and ball line.

It wouldn't help much for judging pace, but its great for working on your technique.

You'll have no problems putting when you qualify for the masters

spacecoyote

Dr_Colossus wrote: »

Carpet is indeed fine, preferably a fairly low pile one. However I've wooden floors in our house so I got the Eyeline Golf Perfect Line Putting Mat
http://www.amazon.com/Eyeline-Golf-Perfect-Putting-10-Feet/dp/B0059S7VH8
last winter for practicing. I got it in Halpenny during one of their sales for €60, I could have just sourced a length of carpet cut off but got the above in exchange for a voucher I won. It's a fairly big contraption but I find it good with the regulation size and smaller size holes and the pace/feel is representative of a good quality green.

This is the one I've got. Its very good. A quick surface and quite long aswell as far as home putting greens go (think its at least 10 ft)

The small hole is a very handy tool. If you practice rolling a lot of putts in to it, you'd be amazed at how much bigger the hole seems when you put to a regulation size hole.

The only thing extra I did with mine was to measure the distance from the edge of the surface to the centre of the hole. I then put marks the same distance out along the putting surface. So if I place the ball on any of those points along the green I know that a straight putt is aimed straight at the centre of the hole.

I don't take it out & use it enough though

shane 007

You could also have a look at this one. Seems to be fairly realistic for an indoor one.

http://www.birdieball.co.uk/products/putting-greens.html