Build A Mini Golf Course In Your Backyard

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Build a mini golf course in your backyard.

One of those professional companies is putttek a business built by competitive golfer howell putttek s president and co founder. Building a permanent backyard mini golf course a miniature golf course outside of the graham family s new home in augusta ga. Rich tom and their crew of young builders made this mini golf course from medium density fiberboard mdf a stable wood composite material. You can work on problem solving later.

You can find mdf in several. If you ve got the money and the space for something truly impressive you can hire professionals to make you a backyard mini golf course. Tape down your cups as each hole and place them at varying distances from the edge of the driveway. Obviously to make put in the hole.

Build your course with any available combination of bricks wood aluminum siding whatever works. This is to dig out the hole sand traps and change the ground to fit your course. Next you need a plastic cup. With your ideas drawn up it s time to get to work.

Think how cheaply and inexpensively you can build your own home backyard miniature golf course with using all these items that are just lying around in your house or in your garage as scrap. Use the edge of the driveway as your starting point. If you really want to make it more competitive you can either allow the kids draw up their own scoreboards or to make it look like more official you can also print out scorecards by yourself from your computer in your house. How to build a miniature golf course overview.

Fill your course outlines with obstacles. If you have an idea for an obstacle but aren t sure how to do it just draw it out. It s smooth and easy to work with and it makes a great flat surface for rolling a golf ball. First determine how many holes you can layout in your area at 1 time.

Jackie ricciardi zuma press corbis there are number of ways you could do this but the easiest is to assemble a modular course using a series of felt covered boards. The first thing you need is a pick axe or something similar. The driveway mini golf course is great for accuracy as the difficulty increases as you place the holes further and further away.