I can’t attest to the quality, but I have heard Zazzle.com will print anything.
Was about to do this, so glad I didn’t put the time in, this hits it on the head! Get it into production ha! It would be cool to tweak it out and give it that Loft & Lie feel for the routing map…
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Examples please. I like this concept but it for sure needs tweaking. I’m thinking going more incognito and scrapping the logos on the back. Do only the routing lines and highlight greens,tee boxes and the barn only. Stitched SGB logo on the front in whatever color you want.
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You’ve got it down right… just tracing over the original routing (greens, tees) and leaving it simplistic in grayscale or black/white… kind of what Lie+Loft does with their prints…
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Yes, exactly. The ellipses finish the point and add the snark.
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New to this thread and absolutely in awe of the amount of work you have undertaken and really hope you can get some decent reward for the effort and spend your weekends golfing, rather than working!
re: real greens and maintaining grass. At the start I was thinking that it would just make so much sense to go synthetic - at the end of the day, once it is set up, you just want somewhere to go and play a few holes. However having seen the work and time you are spending on it, especially with help from friends, it looks like you could pull off a grass course and maintain it to a nice standard. If you can keep it watered during the summer months it will look immense - a lush oasis in a dry and dusty landscape!
I have thought as a minimum at some point I would want to try and build and maintain a real putting green in my garden. Based in Scotland, water and weather conditions should be fairly complimentary to this however I still realise the huge time commitment required to maintain something to a standard you would be happy using - especially given the accessibility of well maintained golf courses over here. It’s certainly a project for later in life when work and kids do not take up as much time.
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Is Grant not #downwithbrown?
EditJust read further and found the Scotland comment and feel like a fool
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Appreciate the support! We need all the international members we can get. Don’t forget to sign up!
As much as we cannot wait to play the finished product, I am having more fun with the construction part. Seeing progress and having a passion project has been fun. Get’s you looking at golf in a totally different way. I find myself not missing playing as much and just as satisfied with the sport (which is a high bar). We also throw down a few balls and hit to all the opened greens throughout constructions which is fun.
Like everyone, we went down the road of synthetics to start but it felt so corporate sell out. The cost alone would make it nearly impossible for us to reasonably consider (covering roughly six 2,000 sq ft greens). Here is my “pitch” for what I want the course conditions like:
BCN will have conditions that require no more maintenance than it would to manage the backyard (ie. Some Guy’s Backyard). We don’t have an irrigation system or a maintenance crew. We don’t have money to burn on fairway and green mowers. We don’t have the time it takes to maintain pure playing conditions. Course conditions will be variable and dependent on the weather – just like the great old courses in Scotland. Prepare to see more shades of brown and tan then emerald and lime greens. The goal is to have the ability to fill in the bunkers, take out the flags and have the property look like the course was never there.
Being in Kansas City, we are lucky enough to have the ability to use warm season grasses like Zoysia. Zoysia takes about 1/3rd the water other golf course grasses take to thrive. It’s a crawling grass that chokes out 99.9% of weeds and lays like an actual carpet on the ground. It gets emerald green in the heat of the summer and goes dormant in the winter. We can use a person driven reel mower and cut Zoysia greens and tee boxes down to 3/4 of an inch which will allow for 3-4 stimp greens. By having longer grasses than typical greens, we will be able to place green complexes on parts of the property with severe undulations - hopefully making it more challenging for good players and bringing all elements into the game like putting downhill vrs. up hill.
I think we can do this for the cost of an initiation fee for a Jr. Membership at a decent club here in the KC area. Since we are offering everyone the play for free, cost matters. Will be a big challenge to keep costs as low as possible. Excited to take it on with the continued support of the BCN membership!
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Need to find out if someone is versed in limited run merch deals to get some funds together for some of this. Maybe nothing more than enough funds to throw together a simple irrigation setup for the greens and possibly tee’s.
And then later a merch drive for a mower setup. I mean I’m all about repping fictious golf course attire. Can’t wait to get the conversation going with people when they see the BCN ball mark
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The little team at Some Guy’s Backyard has been working on some things in the background we hope to release in the next week or so. Really excited to see what everyone on here thinks.
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That zoysia paragraph got me VERY hot and bothered. Oh my agronomy!
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Ever thought about sand greens?
Not seriously. I don’t know much about them to be honest. I know they are the green of choice for extremely rural areas. Would they hold and do well on significant slopes/undulations?
My initial reaction is that I don’t want @BCNSuper’s yard to have massive sand spots of greens throughout the yard. Also, with the creek running through the entire property, slightly concerned about washout if we get a massive storm.
We are pretty committed to having grass from wall to wall. Just seems to make the most sense.
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What?! I gotta keep some things to my chest until we are ready! Been working hard over here and in order for me to answer back to your message, I’d have to show my cards. Hopefully it will be worth the wait.
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My wife saw the ball mark and letter laying on the table: “Whats that about?”
I made 3 or 4 attempts to describe it in a way that made it sound remotely interesting or fun to a non-golfer. I eventually got a puzzled “Huh” and she wondered off.
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Between explaining this and RACDG, all I get from my wife is, “You’re weird. All of that is weird.”
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Yup, they not be woke.
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Yea, I tried explaining it and she just walked off.