Crazy golf

Bluebell1000

We have had enough of looking after our veg area in the garden and I've had a crazy idea of turning it into a permanently installed crazy golf course. I've no idea what kind of cost we might be looking at. I can see that there are a few companies that offer design and build (no costs listed), but I haven't found anyone offering component parts. Anyone got any suggestions or ideas please of how horrendously expensive it's likely to be? 😅 Any 'build your own from parts' type links?

grumbler

And they keep telling us about rising cost of living in UK...

Bluebell1000

grumbler said:

And they keep telling us about rising cost of living in UK...

Absolutely, it'll save us a lot of money compared to paying to play on a commercial course regularly 🙂 which we don't do, because it's too expensive. I'm sure that's logical somewhere.

Auti

Putterfingers.com might give you ideas. Google crazy golf units

mi-key

Great idea ! It reminds when I was a child my grandfather made a sort of improvised crazy golf course for us in his back garden. Had a hole in the middle of the lawn, then 12 tees at different places, so one would be playing from behind bushes, one you had to bounce off a tree trunk, one was over the little bridge over their pond. Was great fun !

Bluebell1000

mi-key said:

Great idea ! It reminds when I was a child my grandfather made a sort of improvised crazy golf course for us in his back garden. Had a hole in the middle of the lawn, then 12 tees at different places, so one would be playing from behind bushes, one you had to bounce off a tree trunk, one was over the little bridge over their pond. Was great fun !

I really like the idea of a central spot to aim for. That would help us fit a bit more into the space we have spare! 

Eldi_Dos

If you have a slope you can putt up a flexible hose from a cylinder mower can be dug in to give a return of ball to bottom of slope.
You could use one of those plastic tunnels you get with some toy train kits for the bottom return part

Bigphil1474

OP, I had a single crazy golf hole in our back garden years ago, it was great fun. Had to get rid of it when I got round to sorting the garden out properly. Mine was basically made from a concrete base (only about an inch thick) with bricks laid for the sides. Had an L-shape and I put some garden ornaments in as obstacles. Wish I'd kept some pics.

However, if I was doing it properly I'd lay a thicker base and some outdoor carpet (astro-turf type stuff maybe) over the concrete. I'd say DIY is your best bet and you can at least have some fun building the course as well as playing it. Depends how crazy you want it and how good your DIY skills are, but if you just want a non-automated course, they are pretty simple to make e.g. use a wooden box with 3 bits of plastic pipe for the ball to go through, one takes you to the hole etc.

silvercar

Croquet would be a lot cheaper to install.

Bluebell1000

silvercar said:

Croquet would be a lot cheaper to install.

We have croquet already though it's a temporary thing 😁 and a train track*!

*Result from a previous crazy project idea

casper_gutman

silvercar said:

Croquet would be a lot cheaper to install.

Not necessarily. A proper croquet lawn needs a LARGE area of flat, decent quality grass. If the garden is sloping, creating this might require a lot of groundworks. Crazy golf only really needs flat areas a meter or two around the actual hole. The rest of the "fairway" can slope up and down.

The maintenance requirements might also be an advantage of crazy golf, as you can use artificial grass or rubberised surfaces . You might not want to lay a whole croquet lawn of the same materials even if they would be acceptable to play on.