DIY backyard golf putting green

[homeinmelbourne]

DIY Backyard Golf Putting Green - start to finish in 1 weekend!

The back corner of the backyard was never used, grew mostly weeds and was overgrown with tree branches. Until we decided, let's put in a putting green! We spent a week researching, watching A LOT of YouTube videos on how to create a backyard putting green, measuring and planning out the space and putting green shape and ordering the supplies we needed for the putting green project. We started and completed the project in 2 days over the weekend.

Here's how we did it and what we used:

• Started with digging out all the soil and grass to get a level and clean soil surface.
• Raked and levelled the ground.
• Rented a compacter from Bunnings and compacted the native soil.
• Installed the Corten steel edging for the area. The Corten will naturally weather with a rust-look. (Purchased from a local steel fabricator)
• Wheel barrowed in 3 tonne of road base/crushed rock (ordered from local garden supplier). The two of us simultaneously shovelled each wheelbarrow load, raked and spread it. I think this was the most physically painful and tiring job of our whole house reno!
• Used the compactor to compact the road base. This took around 4 passes of the area and 2 hours of compacting to achieve a flat surface.
• Spread sand over the whole compacted road base and rolled over with a turf roller. (Bastion 20kg River Sand from Bunnings)
• Cut the putting surface to shape and marked out the cup holes. (Putting surface and green fringe ordered from golf green supplier)
• Dug the cup holes and concreted the cups in. (Builders 20kg Concrete Mix from Bunnings)
• Cut the holes into the putting surface.
• Cut the artificial grass fringe surface and tacked down the edges around the perimeter edging and the putting green surface. (We used a few hundred long nails/pins - similar to what would be used for laying artificial grass). (Tuff Turf Synthetic Turf Anchor Nails from Bunnings)
• Top dressed the putting green with silica sand.
• Ran the wiring and installed 8 'Holman Garden Spotlights from Bunnings' around edging under the Pittosporum trees. 

[EricL]

Hi @homeinmelbourne

Thank you very much for the extra information about the golf putting green. I'm sure our members will find this information quite handy.

Eric