The Best Turf For a Golf Simulator (Part 3 of We Built a Home Golf Simulator)
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- In this video, we explore the best turf options for a golf simulator and show you how we installed ours. We cover everything you need to know about selecting and installing the perfect turf to enhance your home golf simulator experience.
Key Points Covered:
The best turf options for a golf simulator
Detailed installation process
Tips and tricks for a smooth turf installation
Enhancing your golf simulator setup with quality turf
Links to products used:
Carl's Place Enclosure: alnk.to/b7yegH6
MSI Putting Turf: www.homedepot....
Foam Gym Mat Underlayment Link: amzn.to/4eWveTr
Dewalt Chalk Line: amzn.to/4bVBMPk
Dewalt Multitool: amzn.to/4cNy3EW
Rigid Scraping Blade: amzn.to/46bnysy
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Great content! Curious if that putting mat is holding up to where you stand when you swing your clubs. I have seen other reviews showing wear patterns where the golfer is standing. Looking forward to your short-term and long-term reviews of your set up. Thanks for all the info...you are helping a lot of people out!!!
We are definitely seeing some wear in our standing zone, but nothing insanely bad. Keep in mind, we are power users (Allen and I hit over 5k shots in July alone) so that won't happen as quickly for everyone else. We are planning on doing a 90 day review video, and part of that will be showing you guys the tweaks we make to our set up to address it!
My man had me at, "Dee-walt, there's no other brand"!
🤣🤣🤣
Great content! Really appreciate the detail you showed on designing a sim. I have a 20ft deep space by 15 ft wide. How far is your hitting area (ball location) to the screen.
Thanks for watching!
The ball is about 8ish feet away from the screen. It’s worked out well for us!
I used a carpet knife and it worked great
Not a bad option at all! Thanks for watching ⛳️
Great video. I see you used used ez tee hybrid. What height were your tiles? And maybe you could share a link? Also I’m wondering if it might be better to use a double layer of tiles as hitting strip laying directly on concrete might be a little form. Outstanding job guys
Thanks for watching! Good call on adding the link- we shared it in our first video in the series where we laid the tiles, but have added to the description on this video as well! Here it is so you don't have to search: amzn.to/4eWveTr (affiliate)
As far as a double layer of tiles, you can definitely get thicker than we did (.5") but the combo of the EZ tee being roughly 1.25" our tiles at .5 + the MSI turf at .75, it ended up working out perfectly.
Down the road we will likely expand our smaller 2'X4' square into a 6'X4' square to help avoid wear marks from heavy usage where we stand. We haven't seen it yet, but it was part of the plan down the road!
What hitting mat comes in 2x4? Most seem to be only one foot wide
Ours is SimTurf EZ Tee Hybrid- 2X4 is a standard stock item for them. Check out SimTurf.com! Thanks for watching
Great video! Thank you........Did you use tape or adhesive on the bottom of the foam flooring?
We didn’t! The weight of everything holds it firmly in place- depending on your set up and the permanent (or lack of) nature of your install may make it reasonable to do that. We didn’t need it, the roll of turf is heavy
I was going to subscribe but DeWalt 🤣
This made me laugh 😂 we can still be friends!!
Are you satisfied with the EZ Tee Hybrid hitting strip?
Very satisfied. Just the right amount of feedback without any harmful effects on our joints that we've experienced!
You sure that was the 71.5" on both those? Also when you said only Dewalt you made me shake my head
Yes on the 71.5- the turf cut turned out great.
Dewalt for life 😂👊🏼 although we have a ton of red and green friends as well 😄
How is the turf holding up where you stand? Any wear or indentations?
A bit of wear is present, you can see it in our most recent video. We have a new hitting strip on the way that will extend out to where we stand to address this!
Curious what made you choose this turf over money putt, np45, or turf factory direct simpro turf?
Not sure if you are asking about the surrounding turf or the hitting strip, but I’ll give you a breakdown of both-
Surrounding turf- this was the best combo of price and quality we found. When we were planning our build, we knew the total thickness of the MSI turf and the foam underlayment would match the hitting strip perfectly- so it was a good decision
Hitting strip: we wanted to get some feedback on obnoxiously fat shots, and ours did the trick. EZ Tee is used in lots of commercial applications and we knew it would hold up.
Certainly pros and cons to all the options, and I’m sure you could find higher quality or a better name brand on the surrounding turf, but we wanted to find a good middle ground and needed it to match up height wise which it did.
Thanks for watching!
@@WeShouldBeGolfing Thanks for the detailed answer! All makes sense, and I thought it might be the EZ Tee Hybrid. A lot of people use the EZ Tee, and seem to like it.
How does that hitting strip feel after hitting on it for a while? Does it feel true? Looking for options.
Hitting strip is money. We absolutely love it. Zero complaints over here! I’ve hit a ton of balls and no wrist or elbow pain. Can tell when I catch one fat. Definitely the way to go. Thanks for watching! 👊🏼
@@WeShouldBeGolfing which strip did you use again? How thick is it?
Here is the one we bought- simturf.com/product/ez-tee-hybrid-hitting-mat/
Looks like it is about 1"1/8th thick, which was perfect for our build!
Your link for the MSI turf doesn't work, could you fix so we can see which one you went with?
Yes will update it- looks like Build.com discontinued the cut to length turf. Here is the link to Home Depot: www.homedepot.com/p/MSI-Putting-Green-15-ft-Wide-x-16-mm-Cut-to-Length-Green-Artificial-Grass-Carpet-LTRFRPUG15X100/321622687
What turf did you use for the hitting strip?
Ez Tee Hybrid! simturf.com/product/ez-tee-hybrid-hitting-mat/
@@WeShouldBeGolfing What size is yours? These videos are awesome.
@@Rydogg20 The hitting mat is 2X4! Glad you are enjoying the content 👊🏻👊🏻
what size did u get the putting green roll 15x12?
Yes, 15X12 was our order!
Are you able to park your car on it?
We don’t, as we have a good sized driveway and don’t need to park inside. I don’t know that I would recommend it with the way we built our set up, but you could certainly use a hitting mat that would be movable and put it up when you need to park inside! Thanks for watching!