Anyone build a golf hole?

back woods · May 28, 2026

My family likes golf but we want a way to play without always having to pay for it.

Let’s build one.

Started with 10 acres of 100% wild cover along with approx 600 white pine stumps.

First season consisted of mowing what I could, piling slash and grinding stumps.

Enough for an area to hit a short wedge.

When we got this far we thought we made it. :laughing:

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Void_of_Light · May 28, 2026

There better be at least 1 windmill you have to go through.

bad zuki · May 28, 2026

Too much mowing for me.

We had one and used it with golf balls that we pulled out of a lake. It was fun for a while, but turned into too much work for us.

back woods · May 28, 2026

Second season I picked up an old Traxcavator.

This machine is awesome, it was easily able to stump 6 acres of white pines.

End of second season, now we can tee a ball up and hit it into oblivion. Here is a look down the fairway. The far wood line is the proposed tee box.

back woods · May 28, 2026

bad zuki said:
Too much mowing for me.

We had one and used it with golf balls that we pulled out of a lake. It was fun for a while, but turned into too much work for us.

Looking into synthetic greens and tee box for this reason.

Etyler2 · May 28, 2026

Very cool. One of our guys recommended mini golf holes for the Hammers next year. Elevated plywood with outdoor grass carpet. Going to build a couple for the house that will be easy to transport, just ply sheets ripped in half the long way. Final hole will be up and into my car hauler where the kegerator is and maybe the Tiki bar.

back woods · May 28, 2026

Rough cut looking down the fairway.

Penetrode Offroad · May 28, 2026

Awesome, I've wanted to do this but dont have the 10 acres yet. :homer:

Ksand · May 28, 2026

ExWrench · May 28, 2026

30 years ago, it took about a million dollars a hole to build a golf course in CA.

Looks like you'll beat that cost estimate by . . . at least tree-fiddy :laughing:

PAToyota · May 28, 2026

So this is what IBB has come to?

Used to be if you had a piece of land like that and equipment you'd be building a rock crawling course, but you're flattening it and calling it a golf hole???

:shaking:

back woods · May 28, 2026

PAToyota said:
So this is what IBB has come to?

Used to be if you had a piece of land like that and equipment you'd be building a rock crawling course, but you're flattening it and calling it a golf hole???

No rocks where I live.

XtremeJ · May 28, 2026

Had 3 viable holes at home at one point when I had the stick addiction bad. Like 242 rounds in a year bad, in Colorado.

More like a driving range off the leaching field. 125 yard short, 225 yard long short, then a par 4 that could take a 300 yd drive. Used 5 gallon buckets as the holes. Had some junk clubs as the rock concentration was high.

At the time I was playing a lot locally the manager would send me off before the first official group of the day. Couple of water holes on the back nine where on a Monday I could pull out a few hundred balls from the weekend hackers.

I would play the first 18solo and then join a group around 9am and be done with 36 holes by 1pm. As I got close to scratch I actually lost interest and enjoyment in the game.

RedX · May 28, 2026

PAToyota said:
So this is what IBB has come to?

Used to be if you had a piece of land like that and equipment you'd be building a rock crawling course, but you're flattening it and calling it a golf hole???

Well.....he could make a rock garden feature midway down that crosses the fairway (well...kinda zig-zags across the fairway)....2-fer-1 type-o-thing.

EDIT: And, I think this is pretty damned cool!! (for what that's worth)

back woods · May 28, 2026

RedX said:
Well.....he could make a rock garden feature midway down that crosses the fairway (well...kinda zig-zags across the fairway)....2-fer-1 type-o-thing.

EDIT: And, I think this is pretty damned cool!! (for what that's worth)

Thanks,

There will be a small rock retaining wall along the tee box. Further to the right you can see a hole where I am building a root cellar.

back woods · May 28, 2026

Building a functional green requires moving a lot of dirt. The location of the green was approx 4ft below the fairway causing the ball the disappear when it landed. After cutting down the fairway I started digging a large ditch behind the green area and pushing all the dirt up to the green. It is hard to tell in this picture but I pushed around 200yd into the green by now.

Void_of_Light · May 28, 2026

They say a golf course is just a waste of a nice shooting range. This one looks like it could do both if you have a good back stop on one end.

Bcoiteux · May 28, 2026

Void_of_Light said:
They say a golf course is just a waste of a nice shooting range. This one looks like it could do both if you have a good back stop on one end.

The perfect one size fits all solution. Rocks on the backside of the back stop for wheeling as well.

Maybe some on the front side too, if you want to be famous for shooting yourself I guess.

BUCKLAND · May 28, 2026

I **** people that play golf
-Andrew dice clay

I hate golf, but nice job with what you got.

FORE!

I’ll see you at the 19th hole

Penetrode Offroad · May 28, 2026

BUCKLAND said:
I’ll see you at the 19th hole

You are the 19th hole.

b00g · May 28, 2026

double the fun and do a green and tee box at each end of the fairway so you can play your way back :grinpimp:

ExWrench · May 28, 2026

b00g said:
double the fun and do a green and tee box at each end of the fairway so you can play your way back

Hand-painted sign w/ U-turn arrow: "Back 9" :laughing:

back woods · May 28, 2026

Void_of_Light said:
They say a golf course is just a waste of a nice shooting range. This one looks like it could do both if you have a good back stop on one end.

My deer blind is about 50yd from the hole and have about 1/8 mile worth of dirt berms.

BUCKLAND · May 28, 2026

back woods said:
My deer blind is about 50yd from the hole and have about 1/8 mile worth of dirt berms.

We don’t call deer blinds the same. That’s a deer condo :beer:

87manche · May 28, 2026

Void_of_Light said:
There better be at least 1 windmill you have to go through.

The eight wonders of the world!

woods · May 28, 2026

Ksand said:

SomeGuyFromOlympia · May 28, 2026

Tried golf
gave it a honest try

I learned a couple things:
1. Its harder than it looks
2. by the time I got to the 9th hole I was bored

I would make that a MX track with a shooting lane down the side

animator · May 28, 2026

BUCKLAND said:
We don’t call deer blinds the same. That’s a deer condo

Hell, my deer blind is 4x8, 8’ up. Can fit two comfortably with a cooler in the middle. Even has a shingled roof. It’s not insulated, but a buddy heater keeps it plenty warm. No internet or cable tv though. :frown:

PAToyota · May 28, 2026

SomeGuyFromOlympia said:
2. by the time I got to the 9th hole I was bored

The only golf that ever really appealed to me was M*A*S*H with them golfing into the minefield.

back woods · May 29, 2026

Got the green roughed in dimensionality with the track loader. Shaping and grading is done with my Chinese mini excavator running a 31” grading bucket. Just hit 50 hours with it and it has been doing great.

Beginning to take good shape, don’t want it to be impossibly difficult so keeping it “flat”. Closest corner pictured is approx 4ft above grade.

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