Call on your knowledge of mini golf courses you ve visited and sketch out the courses you remember.
Build a mini golf course in your backyard.
How to build a miniature golf course overview.
Tape down your cups as each hole and place them at varying distances from the edge of the driveway.
If you ve got the money and the space for something truly impressive you can hire professionals to make you a backyard mini golf course.
If you have an idea for an obstacle but aren t sure how to do it just draw it out.
You can work on problem solving later.
This is to dig out the hole sand traps and change the ground to fit your course.
It s smooth and easy to work with and it makes a great flat surface for rolling a golf ball.
The driveway mini golf course is great for accuracy as the difficulty increases as you place the holes further and further away.
Rich tom and their crew of young builders made this mini golf course from medium density fiberboard mdf a stable wood composite material.
Fill your course outlines with obstacles.
Building a permanent backyard mini golf course a miniature golf course outside of the graham family s new home in augusta ga.
First determine how many holes you can layout in your area at 1 time.
With your ideas drawn up it s time to get to work.
If you really want to make it more competitive you can either allow the kids draw up their own scoreboards or to make it look like more official you can also print out scorecards by yourself from your computer in your house.
Illustration by carl wiens.
The game is best played with a croquet set because the balls are larger and easier to control but golf equipment is fine too especially for advanced players.
Obviously to make put in the hole.
Use the edge of the driveway as your starting point.
You can find mdf in several.
One of those professional companies is putttek a business built by competitive golfer howell putttek s president and co founder.
Next you need a plastic cup.
Think how cheaply and inexpensively you can build your own home backyard miniature golf course with using all these items that are just lying around in your house or in your garage as scrap.
Jackie ricciardi zuma press corbis there are number of ways you could do this but the easiest is to assemble a modular course using a series of felt covered boards.