Custom Golf & Putting Greens in Niagara

Almost nobody in Niagara builds these. We do.

A putting green is not a bit of lawn cut short. It is a built surface — shaped, graded, and grown on a rootzone that behaves the way a green has to behave. Get that wrong and you have an expensive lump of grass that never rolls true.

We are turf specialists. A green is the hardest thing you can ask turf to do, which is exactly why we like building them. Here is what one actually involves.

home custom golf green in Port Dalhousie rootzone construction with USGA sand

Stage one — shaping

It starts as paint on the ground

Before any grass goes down, the shape gets painted out and staked. Every stake is a height. That is where the contours come from — the subtle fall that makes a putt break instead of running dead straight.

This stage decides whether your green is interesting to putt on or boring. It is also the first stage to get skipped when somebody tells you they can do it cheaper.

home custom golf green in Port Dalhousie bent grass seed germination stage with starter fertilizer

Stage two — the surface

Green turf is not lawn turf

It is finer, it is denser, and it is grown to be cut far shorter than anything else in your yard. It goes down over the shaped rootzone, rolled in tight, seam to seam, then taped off while it knits in.

This is the part that needs patience. A green that gets walked on in week one is a green with a scar in it.

completed golf green in Port Dalhousie, St Catharines

Stage three — the good bit

And then it is just a green

Cut low, with a collar of longer grass around the outside so the edge reads properly and you have somewhere to chip from. Cups set where the contours make them worth attacking.

Front yard, back yard, or the awkward corner nobody uses — if it drains and it gets light, it can hold a green.

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Prefer to talk? Call 905-401-7600 or email info@lawnjunkie.ca.