I've been wanting to turn the acre around my property into a putter skills course since I bought the place two years ago but work has been INSANE. Given the new quarantine though, I've gotten to work on some finish work clearing the greens and fairways and ordered up two more baskets for a total of three currently, and they will be here tomorrow. The goal is to end up with 4 or 5 baskets and 9 tee boxes, all within 200' or so.
The house location is remote and on a VT mountain ridge line so the topography on the acre is extreme and it is very densely grown, mostly hemlock but very conducive to DG design. The woods were very raw, meaning I had to do a lot of chainsaw bucking and dragging deadfall and branches to even make it walkable (lots of burning last summer) and some selective thinning has been done in places to open it up. This year I used a heavy rake to clear the thick brush on the fairways and greens, and finished with a spring rake/leaf blower because I lovelovelove a super dialed green to look and throw at. Doubly because I'm also making a really nice walking path with benches and a fire pit along the way for family time, aaaand I can see most of it from my windows so it qualifies as landscaping IMO.
Not sure what I'll do for tee boxes, but it's not a big rush and dirt is fine for me and the family for now. I'm hoping to have at least the 3 workable holes by the end of this coming week so I can make a full walking loop.
Here's a quick shot of the first hole I'm building which is about 1/3 finished. It's a downhill throw through a workable but smallish window to a guarded green but with a clean RHBH and properly powered fade a park job is very gettable. Distance is probably about 175-190, I will wheel measure it this week to be sure.
I'm going to keep updating this thread as I do more, I really hope to put everything I learned making big courses into creating a really fun, challenging and unique home 9.
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The house location is remote and on a VT mountain ridge line so the topography on the acre is extreme and it is very densely grown, mostly hemlock but very conducive to DG design. The woods were very raw, meaning I had to do a lot of chainsaw bucking and dragging deadfall and branches to even make it walkable (lots of burning last summer) and some selective thinning has been done in places to open it up. This year I used a heavy rake to clear the thick brush on the fairways and greens, and finished with a spring rake/leaf blower because I lovelovelove a super dialed green to look and throw at. Doubly because I'm also making a really nice walking path with benches and a fire pit along the way for family time, aaaand I can see most of it from my windows so it qualifies as landscaping IMO.
Not sure what I'll do for tee boxes, but it's not a big rush and dirt is fine for me and the family for now. I'm hoping to have at least the 3 workable holes by the end of this coming week so I can make a full walking loop.
Here's a quick shot of the first hole I'm building which is about 1/3 finished. It's a downhill throw through a workable but smallish window to a guarded green but with a clean RHBH and properly powered fade a park job is very gettable. Distance is probably about 175-190, I will wheel measure it this week to be sure.
I'm going to keep updating this thread as I do more, I really hope to put everything I learned making big courses into creating a really fun, challenging and unique home 9.
https://www.dgcoursereview.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=71088&stc=1&d=1585493446
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