Things You'll Need:
- Two 2-inch by 4-inch boards, 10 feet in length
- Two 2-inch by 4-inch boards, 8 feet in length
- Five 2-inch by 4-inch boards, 6 feet in length
- Carpenter's square tool
- Protractor
- Pencil
- Power saw
- Gloves
- Safety goggles
- Nails or screws
- Hammer or screw gun
- Staple nails
- Golf netting measuring 12 feet by 10 feet
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Step 1
Cut the 2-inch by 4-inch pieces to length, as indicated in Things You Need. Use the protractor, pencil and carpenter's square tool to draw 45-degree angles on each end of the two 10-foot long pieces. You want each angle to slope in a different direction; you will create a trapezoid rather than a rhombus.
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Step 2
Cut the angles you drew in the previous step, and wear your safety goggles and gloves. Creating the angles will allow the 10-foot pieces to create the hypotenuse of the two triangles you are about to construct.
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Step 3
Create a 90-degree angle with one of the 8-foot pieces and one of the 6-foot pieces, nail or screw the pieces together and repeat with another 6-foot piece and the remaining 8-foot piece. With the two 90-degree angles you just constructed lying flat, you should be able to easily fit your angled 10-foot pieces between the opposite ends of the angle pieces to form a right triangle. Nail or screw the 10-foot pieces into place.
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Step 4
Ask a friend to help you with this next step, as you will need someone to hold the pieces into place as you assemble them. Essentially in this step you will create a box or prism shape by connecting the two right triangles using the remaining 6-foot pieces. The 6-foot pieces will attach to one angle on one right triangle and the other end of the 6-foot pieces will attach to the matching angle on the other right triangle.
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Step 5
Cut two pieces from the golf netting, one piece measuring 10 feet by 6 feet, another measuring 8 feet by 6 feet. Take the 8-foot by 6-foot piece and cut it in half from one corner to the opposite corner to create two equal-sized right triangles. Attach the netting to the frame using the "u"-shaped staple nails, attach along the sloped side and the two triangle-shaped ends, and leave the bottom that will touch the ground open, as well as the 8-foot by 6-foot side in which you will stand to drive the balls.
