How to Make a Ladder Golf Game
Ladder golf is a yard game that's also called hillbilly golf or redneck golf. Make 3 ladders of equal size with PVC pipe, and 3 bolos by drilling holes into golf balls and stringing them through rope. Try to toss the rope around rungs on the ladder to score.
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Things You'll Need
- 40-foot PVC pipe
- 12 PVC T-connectors
- 12 PVC elbow connectors
- Saw
- 12 golf balls
- Drill
- Nylon rope
- Scissors
Instructions
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Make PVC Ladders
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Use your saw to cut a PVC pipe into 12 pieces, each 1-foot long. Cut another 6 pieces of 2-foot long pipe.
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Put T-connectors on each end of one of your 2-foot pipes. Add a 1-foot section of pipe in each of these T-connectors and make sure they point in the same direction. Repeat this twice more to create the rungs of your ladder.
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Use a T-connector to connect two more 2-foot sections of pipe, so that the T-connector is in the center of the pipes with the open end of the T-connector facing up. Do this again to make a second piece. Add 1-foot sections to either end using elbow connectors. This is the base that will support the ladder form.
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Stand the ladder form upright and push it tightly into the T-connectors at the base.
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Repeat Steps 1 through 4 to make two more ladders, one for each team to use in ladder golf.
Make Bolos
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Drill a hole through the centers of 12 golf balls.
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Thread nylon rope through a golf ball and tie a knot so it doesn't slip out. Secure another golf ball of the same color onto the other end of your nylon rope. This is a bolo. The rope should be long enough to wrap around 1 rung of your ladder at least 3 times.
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Make 3 bolos in 3 different colors, one for each team. If you can't can't find 3 different colors of golf balls, use a differently colored nylon rope for each team.
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Tips & Warnings
Be sure all of your PVC pipe is the same diameter so that your ladders fit together.
You can glue each section of your ladders together if you'd like. However, this is a great game for reunions and camping, so keeping it portable is recommended.
To score ladder golf, award 1 point for each bolo successfully wrapped around the top rung. Give 2 points for the middle rung and 3 for the lowest rung. Play until one team reaches 50 points.
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Comments
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20" piece of rope put through each ball and tied or burned (to make it spread). This is what I've read.
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How long is the rope between the bolos?
