Anyone build a golf hole?

Found a before picture of everything. The bottom picture is looking down the fairway.

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Awesome!

I'm a golf junkie. I play once a week, more if possible, but I work too much for that to happen more than once in a while. I go to the Players every year and last year took a trip up to Bethpage to attend the Ryder cup. Contemplating going to the Open but don't think I'll make it.

This reminds me of a recent video from the USGA of how they make an "official" green. While the tech and attention to the process is cool, I don't think they gave a **** about the process in Scotland so many years ago when the game was conceptualized.

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It would be soo awesome to have a hole in my back yard. Hit 2 dozen drives, go out to the fairway, hit 15 wedges from the fairway, 9 from the woods :homer: and then go and three putt all of them. :lmao:

Looking forward to seeing how it turns out!
 
plant some good grass on the green and get a greens master reel mower
 
Golf is only fun if you are ****faced. Otherwise it's a fashion show for ***s and old men.

Paige Spiranac being one of the few exceptions. :flipoff2:
 
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.
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ive lived golf course adjacent for 21 years. (im a mile west of one but have to drive by in and out of my place) every time i drive by it say to myself this is a waste of a perfectly good hare scramble course. :laughing:

soon to be moving off the gravel so no more ritzy ks golf course adjacent living for me :lmao:
 
I don't give a **** about golf, but here is my suggestion.
You make some kind of device that pops up out of the hole to knock the ball out of the hole so you don't have to stick your hand in there to retrieve it, or to ruin your golfing buddies hole in one. :laughing: :flipoff2:
 
Ransil said:
plant some good grass on the green and get a greens master reel mower
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You need sand. Lots and lots of sand.

And the grass you want is creeping bentgrass.

You will not be able to cut it with a rotary mower, you'll need a reel mower. Tee boxes and greens run at different heights. Fairways and tee boxes are same height. Greens are very short.

Lots of water. Lots of fertilizer. Lots of herbicide.

Might be worth it to do sod from a sod farm that specializes in golf course supply.

Gotta have the sand though, although depending where you are in the mitten, your soil may already be pretty damn sandy. As I said, you need lots of water, but it cant pond.

The gold course I worked at when I was a teenager was designed by some PGA pro. It had no less than 7 tons of sand per green. Over a rock base, more sand, then soil. It was a nice course. $75 a round back in the early 2000's.

Drew water out of a lake, ran sprinklers every night. Fert once every other week. About the same for spray....may e once a month.

Greens got cut every damn day for the sake of consistency of speed of the green. Tee boxes and fairways got cut every other day.

Creeping bentgrass can take a minute to establish from seed. We grew our own sod. Think turnaround was about 5 years.

And dont forget drainage. Bentgrass hates ponding.
 
MuntCuffin said:
You need sand. Lots and lots of sand.

And the grass you want is creeping bentgrass.

You will not be able to cut it with a rotary mower, you'll need a reel mower. Tee boxes and greens run at different heights. Fairways and tee boxes are same height. Greens are very short.

Lots of water. Lots of fertilizer. Lots of herbicide.

Might be worth it to do sod from a sod farm that specializes in golf course supply.

Gotta have the sand though, although depending where you are in the mitten, your soil may already be pretty damn sandy. As I said, you need lots of water, but it cant pond.

The gold course I worked at when I was a teenager was designed by some PGA pro. It had no less than 7 tons of sand per green. Over a rock base, more sand, then soil. It was a nice course. $75 a round back in the early 2000's.

Drew water out of a lake, ran sprinklers every night. Fert once every other week. About the same for spray....may e once a month.

Greens got cut every damn day for the sake of consistency of speed of the green. Tee boxes and fairways got cut every other day.

Creeping bentgrass can take a minute to establish from seed. We grew our own sod. Think turnaround was about 5 years.

And dont forget drainage. Bentgrass hates ponding.
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I once read that people who lived on a golf course often had health problems from being exposed to the high levels of herbicides.
So I googled it...

beyondpesticides.org

Pesticide Dangers at Golf Courses Much Higher in the U.S. than Europe, Study Finds - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog

(Beyond Pesticides, March 22, 2023) Pesticide use on golf courses in the United States poses significantly more risk to human health than those in Europe, according to a study published this month in Science of the Total Environment. The findings highlight yet another area of land management...
beyondpesticides.org beyondpesticides.org

But what I found funny was the issue with most science ,and the question we should always ask .... WHO PAID FOR THE STUDY...
Because this VVVVV screams "biased"


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You mean to tell me the people who sell chemicals don't see an issue with a major use of chemicals??? Who, da thought.
 
Elwenil said:
Golf is only fun if you are ****faced. Otherwise it's a fashion show for ***s and old men.

Paige Spiranac being one of the few exceptions. :flipoff2:
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Some of us like challenges, knocking a little ball in a hole makes the same sense as trying to drive a crawler through a trail. One just has a higher entry fee. Hanging with your buds outside is fun no matter what.
 
KacksterK5 said:
Some of us like challenges, knocking a little ball in a hole makes the same sense as trying to drive a crawler through a trail. One just has a higher entry fee. Hanging with your buds outside is fun no matter what.
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If you want to be in sales you should really learn how to play as well.

Looking at you PJ.
 
Tee box is a synthetic mat, was like $130 off eBay. Going to frame a platform for it to sit on. It will provide the best consistency, we are all hitting off dirt right now.

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This should supply plenty of water to keep things green.


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Dropped the disc, loosened it up and brought some sticks to the surface to pick up.

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M92PV4U said:
I don't give a **** about golf, but here is my suggestion.
You make some kind of device that pops up out of the hole to knock the ball out of the hole so you don't have to stick your hand in there to retrieve it, or to ruin your golfing buddies hole in one. :laughing: :flipoff2:
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I've got a suction cup on my putter. I've got monkey paws. I get my ball and have a tough time getting my hand back out! Lol
 
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