How to Make Homemade Mini Golf at Home
Mini golf is one of the most popular family recreational activities. While playing at a public course is fun, it can also be pricey if you wish to play frequently. Building your own course is more expensive up front, but if you have the space for it and the desire to play often enough, it can prove a great alternative.
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Things You'll Need
- Wood 4-by-4 beams
- Wood 2-by-4 planks
- Hammer
- Large nails
- PVC piping or gutter downspout extensions
- Astroturf
- Dirt rake
- Shovel
- Items to use as homemade obstacles
Instructions
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Plan your course carefully before doing any construction. It is important to assess your available equipment and available area to ensure you get the most out of it, and don't paint yourself into a corner by using obstacles better suited for later holes too early.
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Prepare your ground using the shovel and the dirt rake. Natural dirt beneath the turf can be used to shape the course cheaply, but you must ensure the dirt is tightly packed before laying, so it maintains its shape.
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Create the walls for your holes using the wooden beams, as this will provide ample height to ensure the balls remain on a hole.
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Use tubing or gutter extensions to create tubes and tunnels for balls to travel through. This enables both multi-tiered holes as well as obstacles where the ball enters in the front and comes out elsewhere.
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Create cups by tightly packing the dirt around a piece of 4-inch diameter PVC tubing, flush with ground level.
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Lay the Astroturf over the packed dirt, with a hole cut for the cup, to create your putting surface.
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Wood planks can be used to create obstacles. Fun ideas include a long plank which requires a straight putt to cross, or an obstacle with three openings, where a center shot heads straight at the hole, but the two side openings will yield a wood plank angled to shoot the ball out to the side.
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Use household items to create fun homemade obstacles. The only limit on what can make a good obstacle is your own creativity.
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You can also use natural impediments like large rocks for obstacles.
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