Sheet S-3 · Putting greens
Putting greens built to roll true around Tyler
Artificial turf greens with a real base, a real break and a clean edge, designed and built by the crew that sets the stone and sod around them.
Chapter 01
Why most backyard greens play like a doormat
A putting green is judged by how the ball rolls, and the ball tells the truth about everything underneath the turf. A base that was never compacted settles into dips after the first wet season. A surface with no contour at all rolls dead straight and gets boring in a week. Seams cut in a hurry show up as a tick in the roll every time the ball crosses them.
Drainage is the quiet one. Red East Texas clay holds water, and a green built over a basin plays soggy and smells like it. The fixes all live below grade, which is exactly where a rushed install saves time and a careful one spends it.
Backyard artificial turf putting green with two yellow flags on a stone-walled raised terrace beside an outdoor kitchen
How Riaz builds one, from the Brynmar Court green
Carson's write-up of Brynmar Court in Tyler calls it a professional crafted 250 square feet putting green, and the details are the point: 2 cups, a slight left to right break, and a nice outline of rough.
The break is what turns a patch of turf into a green. A slight left to right roll means you have to read a putt instead of just hitting it, and two cups give you two lines to learn.
The grass around a green is its own decision. On the Hollytree job in Tyler the crew laid 4 pallets of St. Augustine sod, and the same sod and stone thinking applies where a green meets a lawn: the line between the two should look drawn, not left over.
Chapter 03
Living with it: brushing, debris and the edge
Artificial turf asks for less than a lawn, but not nothing. Leaves, pine needles and seed pods sit in the fibers and hold moisture, so a leaf blower or a stiff broom every so often keeps the surface fast and the drains open.
Brushing the fibers against the lay now and then keeps them standing where the balls roll hardest, around the cups. Give the edges a look too. The seam where turf meets sod is where grass creeps in and where a loose edge starts, so catch it early.
Ask Carson what care makes sense for your yard and your tree cover before the green goes in, so the answer is built into the design instead of discovered later.
Carson Riaz, (903) 508-0646, Monday to Friday 7 to 6, Saturday by appointment.
Takeoff · Brynmar Court, Tyler
What goes into one green.
The figures are the ones written on the finished job. Your yard gets its own sheet.
Tell Carson about your yardPutting surface
A professional crafted green, Brynmar Court, Tyler
250sq ft
Cups
Two holes to read, not one
2cups
Break
A slight left to right roll
L to Rslight
Edge
A nice outline of rough
1outline
Sod beside it
St. Augustine, as laid on the Hollytree job
4pallets