Which Are The Best Home Putting Greens?

Discover The Best Home Putting Greens for Every Budget and Space

As putting makes up about 50% of your score, why do we not spend more time on home putting greens as we do practicing driving on the range? To most golfers, practicing means hitting the driving range and blasting away with a driver. Instead use the range to practice your short, middle, and long irons, and finish with your woods and driver.

The most important area of the golf game that we have to spend more time on is the short game. This includes chip shots, greenside bunker shots, and putting. If you are lucky enough to have a decent sized backyard, you can buy a Golf Practice Net and one of the many Golf Mats available to practice at home. Fortunately for putting practice, you can either practice on your living room carpet or invest in either indoor or a backyard home putting greens.

Types of Home Putting Greens

There are dozens of choices when it comes to choosing home putting greens for your home. There are a couple of considerations to take into account. First is your budget; home putting greens (either indoor or indoor/outdoor) begin at under $100 for small ones and go progressively up in price to over $4000, and backyard putting greens can cost anywhere from under $500 to over $9000. The second consideration is space; how much space you have available, either indoors or outdoors, will determine which putting green to choose.

Basically though, there are only 3 types of home putting greens, which are often called synthetic or artificial putting greens. The first type is an indoor putting green which is only suitable for indoor use, second there are the larger backyard putting greens which are ideal for installing permanently in your backyard, and third is the more flexible indoor outdoor putting green.

Indoor Outdoor Putting Green

A good choice is to go for an indoor outdoor putting green so you have the option of setting it up either in your living room, den, basement, patio, or driveway. Tour Links have a series of home putting greens designed for indoor or outdoor use. Tour Links putting green prices range from $319 for a 3 x 10 foot model to $4248 for a 14 x 20 foot model.

All Tour Links indoor outdoor putting greens are weather resistant and completely portable. They have the benefit of having adjustable contours for a more realistic putting experience; you can create different break combinations by adjusting the contours. The Tour Speed turf is a patented technology that simulates Country Club greens.

Tour Links 3′x10′ Dogbone Indoor/Outdoor Putting Green

Tour Links 4′x12′ Indoor/Outdoor Putting Green

Tour Links 12′x12′ Indoor/Outdoor Putting Green

Tour Links 14′x14′ Indoor/ Outdoor Putting Green

 

There are 11 sizes to choose from, starting at lengths of 7 feet up to 20 feet and widths from 3 feet to 14 feet. The Tour Links putting greens can be easily assembled and dissembled in just minutes so you can practice in your family room, office, or backyard.

The most popular and the highest rated of the Tour Links putting green is their Tour Links 7′, 9′, & 13′ Indoor/Outdoor Training Aid. It is available in three lengths – 7 feet, 9 feet, and 13 feet. The Tour Links Training Aid is considered one of the best all-in-one putting trainer developed. The Tour Links Training Aid is designed to deliver instant feedback on all facets of your putting stroke. It features a string guide to help with your aim; a Stroke Groover Block to help you maintain the club-face square at impact; a ball marking tool to improve your alignment; and it also includes a cup reducing ring to make for more challenging putts.

The Tour Links indoor outdoor putting green and training aid is a unique training system to help golfers improve their putting skills. It will establish the proper alignment, stance, and club path for accurate and consistent putting. The stance block can be moved to any position to practice any length of putt and can also be positioned for left or right handed players.

Indoor Putting Green by Big Moss

A good option for an indoor putting green is from Big Moss. The Big Moss putting greens come in sizes from 3 x 9 feet up to 6 x 15 feet. Your putts will roll like they do on a freshly-cut bent grass green and they have a built-in down-grain for a True-Roll every time. Included are Break Snakes which provide unlimited contour options so that you can master different breaks including right, left, uphill, side-hill, ridges and more.

These indoor putting greens by Big Moss are completely portable and they set up in minutes without tools. They are made from a non-wrinkle material that is virtually indestructible. The standard package includes the putting green, a chipping mat, and 1 break snake. The short game package includes the putting green, a larger chipping mat, and 2 break snakes.

Big Moss also has a couple of Long Putt Putting Greens available. You can choose from the 30 foot or the 60 foot models. The Long-Putt putting green comes either as a one piece 6 x 30 foot green or a two piece 6 x 60 foot putting and chipping green. Just remember that if you order one of these long putting greens from Big Moss that you will need a large space at home; measure out 60 feet at your home and you will see what I mean.

Its construction provides unrivaled versatility and improved portability. The Big Moss signature long-putt greens are the industry-leading long-putt surface and are used all over the world in long-putt contests and trade shows. They are made from premium industrial grade materials; these greens can endure heavy foot traffic, they never develop grooves, and it will clean up with a vacuum cleaner.

Extreme Greens Putting Green

Next, take a look at the Extreme Green line of practice putting greens for the home or office. When it comes to adjustable contours, the Extreme Green system is the way to go. Their commercially durable all-weather construction of anodized aluminum and high impact plastic make them suitable for a wide range of locations.

These greens are truly the definitive in adjustable contoured practice putting and chipping greens. Like all their other models, you can walk on its surface with out damage. The all weather construction will give you years of enjoyment, and with sizes ranging from 8 feet to 25 feet you will find a size and price to suit all golfers.

The Extreme Green is made up of patented modular segments that are adjustable by sliding the side support wedges in or out to change the slope. The green can be set up on any level surface and are designed and constructed for years of maintenance free use.

The Extreme Green is assembled by interlocking individual segments together. To create the desired length of your green just link the right amount of segments together. For example, a 20 foot green will need 36 segments as each segment is 6.6 inches wide.

If one hole on either side is desired then two segments with holes are needed. Place the holed segments in the 5th segment on each end. When all the segments are in place then the turf can be rolled out on top.

Extreme Green Junior Model

Extreme Greens Master

Extreme Greens Competitor

Extreme Greens Challenger

Extreme Greens Champion

 

Tour Links Designer Series Putting Greens

Finally, got $5,000 to $10,000 to spend on a backyard putting green? Then you can check out the Designer Series from Tour Links backyard putting greens. For the first time, a green of 20 x 32 feet is available as a ready to install kit. These greens are designed to be installed in your yard; they are the real deal when it comes to practicing your long putts or even your chipping skills.

The Designer Series green includes pre-cut panels, center panels, cups, pins and hardware. A Tour Links sales representative will help you to decide whether you need to order the putting green with or without the tapered foam edge transition, based upon where you will be installing your putting green. You also have the choice to select from a non-filled nylon putting turf, a partial filled nylon putting turf or a sand filled polypropylene putting turf. For those installations where you require contours to be created, the Tour Links foam contour system can be ordered as an option.

Tour Links Designer Series 15′x17′ Putting Green

Tour Links Designer Series 18′x23′ Putting Green

Tour Links Designer Series 20′x32′ Putting Green

Tour Links Designer Series 28′x28′ Putting Green

Summary of Home Putting Greens

The above home putting greens are just some of the many different designs that are available; they are some of the best home putting greens available. However, if you want to see all the choices, sizes, prices, as well as ratings, then their a couple of online stores that I recommend:

1. InTheHoleGolf.com – Best choice of Tour Links, Big Moss, and Extreme Green putting greens
2. Amazon.com – Nearly 200 different home putting greens, either new or used

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