I need a quality, outdoor, portable putting green.

Hopefully this thread can end up eventually serving as a buyer's guide of sorts for others looking to do something similar, indoors or out, portable or permanent.

As you may or may not have seen, I have an RC Car track in my backyard. The side benefit from this is that I have multiple very nice spots that are hard packed with any break you want, just waiting to have a nice practice putting mat slapped down on them.



Future plans call for a couple very tall posts and netting...but that is another thing entirely.

So, back to the putting green.

I am looking for something nice and thick, high quality, large, can be rolled up to store, deals with the weather decent when I leave it out and.....of course do not want to break the bank. I'm willing and eager to spend, just not the kind of coin they want from 'the target audience' for a lot of these types of products. :-)

My lanes are 6' wide and I can go as long as I'd like, but I also have some larger 15'-20' wide areas, so if I found something that linked together to make wider surfaces, that would be ideal. But basically, I think I'm looking for something in the neighborhood of 6' x 15-20' to start out with and am hoping for a nice inch thick surface.

The only things I have looked at so far are first page google results type junk. I did see one from Birdieball.com that looked interesting, but I found it through a video talking about a double-thick mat from them which the website didn't have listed. I may call them, but their foam surface stuff looked a bit junky.

Anyway, I'm interested in any ideas, thoughts, products, examples, links, pics of anything anybody has done, or is thinking about doing.

I think the combination of high quality and portable, in an exterior setting, is a really tough one.

I don't plan on leaving it out overnight very often, but it will happen i'm sure. Plan would be to roll it up and store it behind my shed or just drag it back there. stays pretty dry there.

so far, all researching products has done has make me want to go into the putting green business and rip people off like everyone else does.

lol, $800 for a 6' x 30' piece of carpet.

looking at the big moss and truline products

hmmm, i should have posted this in a golf forum. can someone move it to se?

There was some discussion about building them a while ago with some cool guides but I think it was mostly for indoor ones.

For what they cost, it is almost a waste of money. Search golfwrx, there are threads all over with tons of good information and man does it get expensive from what Ive read. Have to go 100% synthetic. I think I saw recently that you wont get cheaper than $25/sq ft at the very best for a decent one

its pretty much a joke when they charge for the turf. i have bigmoss sending me a sample cut of both their indoor and outdoor turf.

i have a sample of the outdoor turf headed to my father-in-law in China to see if how much he can get a match for.

Trouble with those Chinese turfs is the grass grows in the wrong direction.
Down not Up.

your racist joke makes no sense at all. at least make an effort man.

even though nobody in this forum actually golfs, i'll continue this thread just in case one of you get the bug some day.


good news, bad news on the china source.

bad news is that I've looked at pics of a couple of samples my father-in-law was able to locate, but have not located a suitable replacement. Most of them so far have been decent quality, but do not loop the threads which is key for a putting green. otherwise, it would basically be like a carpet and you will develop trails (grooves) on your common line.

the closest match was pretty close, but the cost would not have been competitive at all and I would save maybe 100 bucks on a 20'x10' mat.

the good news is that this means I get to buy bigmoss mat and it is made in Georgia. I've contacted them for pricing on some custom sizes and am waiting to hear back. looking at either a 10'x15' or 10'x20', however, weight is going to become an issue since my intention is to roll it up and store when not in use.