Winter golf

not a golfer but just a thought-- an easier/less ambitious idea could be to just grab a small piece of fake grass and you can throw that down wherever in your backyard to shoot off of and set up a bucket as a target to practice your irons

SofaKingSicknot a golfer but just a thought-- an easier/less ambitious idea could be to just grab a small piece of fake grass and you can throw that down wherever in your backyard to shoot off of and set up a bucket as a target to practice your irons

i already do this. its good for practicing chipping, but I'm really looking for something that I can hit all my clubs with. also snow kinda gets in the way of this.

SofaKingSicknot a golfer but just a thought-- an easier/less ambitious idea could be to just grab a small piece of fake grass and you can throw that down wherever in your backyard to shoot off of and set up a bucket as a target to practice your irons

also just a bit of golf knowledge. i think your referring to wedges rather than irons. wedges are used for short-ranged shots, whereas irons are for mid-long range shots. you should try to get into golf. it was one of the best decisions of my relatively short life so far. its also not as expensive as people make it out to be. used clubs are really easy to find.

hb_lazalso just a bit of golf knowledge. i think your referring to wedges rather than irons. wedges are used for short-ranged shots, whereas irons are for mid-long range shots. you should try to get into golf. it was one of the best decisions of my relatively short life so far. its also not as expensive as people make it out to be. used clubs are really easy to find.

thanks, yeah i hit the driving range once in a while, fun sport for sure. i don't need another hobby currently but yeah some day i might get into it. enjoy!

hb_lazi am feinding for golf rn, i just got a bunch up golf stuff for xmas and I also just want to keep my game up. i was thinking about setting up a hitting net in my garage, and was wondering if anybody has experience with it. i know there are hitting nets you can buy, but most are way overpriced. if I just set up a net and hitting mat will I be good? are there any ball tracking thingamajigs for not that much?

My friend had an older cast net he was no longer using. He used rope to set it up in his garage and it worked fairly well. Just leave enough slack so it’s not really stretched out. With too much tension the balls were hitting the net then flying back towards him. Reduced the tension and they basically would sink into the cast net then either catch in the bottom or just roll out. Worked pretty well for a basically free system. I had bought a roll of astroturf to chip in my back yard. We just cut a portion off it and used that chunk in his garage for the tee. We didn’t tee up balls off it though. You could probably get a piece of dense foam to stick tees into you want. Use a staple gun to get into the foam from below the Turf. Should hold well enough and if you chop up the foam from use should pull off easy enough to replace.

**This post was edited on Jan 6th 2025 at 3:09:06pm

Hit up your local golf sim, by far the best way to golf in the winter.

hb_lazi am feinding for golf rn, i just got a bunch up golf stuff for xmas and I also just want to keep my game up. i was thinking about setting up a hitting net in my garage, and was wondering if anybody has experience with it. i know there are hitting nets you can buy, but most are way overpriced. if I just set up a net and hitting mat will I be good? are there any ball tracking thingamajigs for not that much?

I grew up in Minneapolis and my parents house was situated on a janky shaped block so our backyard was ~100 yards long. When I was little I used to be able to crack balls into my backyard, but as I grew up more and more balls ended up in my neighbors backyard…

Solution for that- and maybe for you:
foam golf balls.

Sounds stupid but they absorb a ton of the power and don’t go far because they’re so light, plus they can’t even break a window. maybe just get some of those and crack some irons in your backyard? Tbh even with a driver those things never left my backyard.

I drove by courses in Miami and it looked packed and miserable when travelling for work. I gotta go to Houston soon though and think my Samsonite hardcase roller bag will join im sure I can find some shit not too crowded 20 miles outside the city to play 30ish holes with cart and skip whatever holes have olds on them.

I used to like golf way more until I bought a boat.

Young_pattyI grew up in Minneapolis and my parents house was situated on a janky shaped block so our backyard was ~100 yards long. When I was little I used to be able to crack balls into my backyard, but as I grew up more and more balls ended up in my neighbors backyard…

Solution for that- and maybe for you:
foam golf balls.

Sounds stupid but they absorb a ton of the power and don’t go far because they’re so light, plus they can’t even break a window. maybe just get some of those and crack some irons in your backyard? Tbh even with a driver those things never left my backyard.

i use foam balls somtimes, but again later in the season snow is an issue. also I can only really use wedges anyways bc the foams still go a distance with iron or higher.

eheathHit up your local golf sim, by far the best way to golf in the winter.

that gets expencive, and i also have to travel. making something in the garage is the cheapest and most feasible way to do it.

hb_lazthat gets expencive, and i also have to travel. making something in the garage is the cheapest and most feasible way to do it.

fake grass and a net works well for me