Should you’re a type of nosey sorts who likes to look on Google Earth to see what celebrities’ again gardens seems to be like, you’ll most of the time uncover that a part of the huge acreage has been astro-turfed over for a helicopter touchdown pad, children’ play space, five-aside soccer pitch or, as is commonly the case nowadays, a mixture of all three, plus a nine-hole placing course.
Whereas a excessive share of Tour gamers have transformed their huge estates into full-scale replicas of the greens at Augusta, there are additionally loads of common golfers on the market which are selecting to dig up their considerably smaller home lawns and substitute them with one thing altogether extra fascinating to take a look at and enjoyable to play on.
Because of the UK’s rain-soaked winters and football-ridden summers, preserving a garden wanting tidy at any time of the yr is a tricky job, however even when it does resemble the Centre Courtroom at Wimbledon, grass is simply, effectively, grass on the finish of the day, and good for little or no besides taking a look at, interspersed with the tedious jobs of weeding and chopping.
Which is why an increasing number of of us are selecting to surrender our obsession with firing up the Flymo each Sunday afternoon in favour of pulling out the putter for a spot of observe on the newest technology of synthetic greens.
ADVANCEMENT OF ARTIFICIAL TURF
Because of huge leaps in know-how, the present ‘crop’ of synthetic golf greens are far faraway from the stuff you used to see behind the apples and pears in your native greengrocers, and extra akin to the finely-chiselled swards you’ll discover on a championship golf course.
And whereas a tour-standard setup may be dear, a extra easy design, that includes a couple of fastidiously constructed holes, can be a way more inexpensive, but equally efficient possibility, for the novice golfer.
That is the kind of buyer that Look Actual Lawns is at present working with to satisfy their home dream layouts. Arrange 16 years in the past by skilled Head Greenkeeper Andrew Brown who loved spells at Nizels and Croham Hurst, Kent-based Look Actual Lawns goals to fulfill the wants of the eager golfer trying to sharpen up their quick recreation expertise within the consolation of their very own house.
Fairly than driving to their native membership each time they need to put in a bit of labor on their lag placing or greenside chipping, house owners of a Look Actual inexperienced can merely open the again door and, hey presto, they’re on the first gap and sinking putts for enjoyable.
DP WORLD TOUR CLIENTS
Certainly one of Andrews earliest clients was three-time European Tour winner Andy Sullivan, who had a five-hole course in-built his again backyard within the Midlands.
Whereas the corporate can’t take full accountability for Sullivan’s spectacular performances on tour this season, having someplace to observe his placing stroke at house clearly hasn’t harmed his type on the greens this yr.
And whereas LRL lately put in a nine-hole placing course at a personal home on the unique Wentworth Property in Surrey.
The corporate’s conventional buyer base is usually on a a lot tighter funds, the place a couple of fascinating, well-designed holes on a small plot are all that’s required.
“Whereas it’s good to work with tour gamers, and people will sizeable budgets, most of our tasks are on a a lot smaller scale, the place clients are on the lookout for someplace to some easy holes to observe on,” says Andrew.
“However irrespective of how large or small the mission is, our consideration to element is strictly the identical. We work carefully with the shopper by means of each step of the method to verify they get precisely what they need, and work inside their budgets to realize their ambitions.”
BUILT WITH QUALITY AND CARE
The son of a golf skilled, and along with his expertise as a greenkeeper, Brown prides himself on figuring out the calls for golfers have in terms of replicating greens, in addition to what’s required to panorama holes right into a home setting, the place greens are sometimes competing with different necessities of a standard backyard.
“Residence house owners don’t desire a inexperienced simply to be merely plonked down within the again backyard,” says Andy. “So we work carefully with the shopper to verify it blends in with that’s already there, and, if required, perform sympathetic landscaping to make sure that it doesn’t dominate the setting.”
Requiring subsequent to no upkeep, apart from disregarding the leaves in autumn, and able to withstanding the heaviest of downpours, a man-made inexperienced is a good addition to any golfer’s backyard.
Look Actual installations are additionally good for golf golf equipment, driving ranges and academies, the place synthetic surfaces are splendid for observe greens, all-weather ranges, and even indoor teaching amenities.
So whether or not you’re trying to win subsequent yr’s membership championship, set your youngsters on the highway to Open glory, smarten up your golf membership, or just need to have someplace to problem your mates to some holes over a drink, a Look Actual placing inexperienced must be your very subsequent step.
For extra particulars on Look Actual Lawns vary of synthetic placing and chipping greens, or to e-book a website go to, name 07748350530 or go to www.lookreallawns.co.uk
