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Lubbock Artificial Turf builds indoor putting greens: practice greens installed inside a garage, a game room, a converted spare bedroom, an office, or under a covered patio. The putting surface is the same short, dense pile used on a backyard green. Everything under it is different, because there is no soil to excavate and no base for water to drain into. Indoor greens are priced from the measured footprint, quotes are free, and there is no obligation.
The local case for putting inside is a calendar. Bermuda goes dormant after the first freeze, which arrives around November 11, and does not green up again until late March or April, so a natural practice green in Lubbock is tan for roughly five months a year. The months on either side bring their own problem: 92 days a year reach 90°F or higher, 13.3 of those pass 100°F, and this is the tenth-windiest city in the United States at an average 12.4 miles per hour. An indoor green ignores all of it and putts the same every day.
Indoors, this is a flooring job that happens to be green. The slab gets read for flatness and cleaned before anything goes down, a pad gets chosen for the roll you want, and the perimeter is bonded or trapped under trim instead of spiked into a base. Ceiling height and lighting decide as much as the surface does, because a green you cannot take a full stroke over is a rug.
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A garage or shop slab is poured for cars, not for a rolling ball. High spots get ground down, dips get filled with a leveling compound, and flaking paint, sealer, or old adhesive comes off first. Every flaw left in the slab becomes a deflection you will read as break for years.
The pad under an indoor green is a speed decision, not padding for its own sake. A thinner, denser underlayment gives a firmer, quicker roll; a thicker, softer one slows the surface and takes a chip better. It also swallows the minor texture a broom finish leaves in concrete.
Green speed indoors is tuned the same way it is outdoors: infill level and rolling, measured with a Stimpmeter. Say how you want it to putt at the design stage. It stays adjustable afterward, since more sand and more rolling firm the surface up.
Concrete does not take a regulation-depth cup, so an indoor green uses a shallow cup set into the pad and turf or a low raised platform with a full cup underneath. Either way it sits flush, because a proud lip announces itself on every holed putt. The fringe collar runs narrower in a small footprint, but it still frames the green and gives the edge a place to end.
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Four rooms account for most indoor greens. The surface is the same in all of them; the clearance, the light, and the edge detail are what change.
The most common indoor build, because the slab is already there and the footprint is generous. Garages are lit for parking, not for reading a putt, and overhead fixtures and door tracks sit right in the stroke arc in plenty of them, so the clearance gets measured before the footprint is set.
A spare bedroom or bonus room takes a small green well, usually one or two cups and a single breaking putt. Over a wood subfloor rather than a slab, the flatness check matters even more, since a floor that flexes underfoot moves the ball.
Lobbies, break rooms, and executive offices. These are laid out around traffic first and putting second, so the green usually takes a corner, keeps the walking path clear, and gets a fringe edge that will not catch a shoe.
Half-indoor spaces get a half-indoor build. There is still no base to drain into, so the surface is treated as an indoor green, but blown dust and rain driven in sideways are real here, and the edge and infill choices account for that.
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Five steps, and the first one is about the room rather than the floor.
Footprint, ceiling height, and the arc of a full stroke, including the backswing. Light fixtures, garage door tracks, ceiling fans, and door swings all get located. If you want to chip onto the green as well as putt, the clearance question gets much bigger, and in most rooms the honest answer is that chipping does not fit.
The floor gets checked with a straightedge, cleaned, and corrected. High spots ground, dips filled, loose coatings stripped. Any sign the slab takes on moisture gets dealt with here, because there is no drainage layer coming to save it later.
The chosen underlayment goes down across the footprint. Where you want break, it is shaped into the pad, since there is no base to grade. Indoor contours run gentler than outdoor ones and still read plenty on a short putt.
The putting pile is laid, seamed on tape and adhesive with the grain one direction, and cut to the room. Cups are set flush and the taller fringe collar goes in around the perimeter, bonded or trapped under trim rather than spiked.
Sand is broomed in and the surface rolled in stages until it stimps where you asked. Then it gets putted before anyone calls it finished.
The published national cost guides, Angi and HomeGuide among them, put installed artificial turf at about $5 to $20 per square foot, with most residential lawns between $8 and $14, which is where a typical 500-square-foot yard lands around $4,000 to $9,000. Those are published national ranges for turf work, not a quote, and an indoor green is not a lawn.
Indoors the money moves to different places. There is no sod to strip and no base to build, but there is slab prep, a pad, a specialty putting surface, cups, and fringe, all across a small footprint, and small areas always price higher per square foot than large ones. Tell us the room and rough dimensions and you get a real number back.
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(806) 630-0409Enough for a full putting stroke with no thought given to the ceiling. In practice the limit is rarely the ceiling itself; it is a light fixture, a garage door track, or a fan sitting in the arc. We measure the swing path, not just the floor. Chipping onto the green needs far more room than putting, and in most houses it does not fit.
Not into the concrete. An indoor green either uses a shallow cup set into the pad and turf, or the green is built on a low raised platform so a deeper cup fits underneath. Both putt fine. The platform costs more and adds a step at the edge, and it is the better answer if the floor has to go back to bare concrete someday.
As fast as you ask for, within the surface's range. Speed comes from the pad, the sand load, and rolling, measured with a Stimpmeter the same way an outdoor green is. Name the speed you want when you ask for a quote, and know it stays tunable after install.
No, and that is the thing to understand about it. There is no base underneath to drain into, so nothing wet should go on it: no hosing, no rinsing. Spills get blotted. If the slab itself pulls moisture through, that gets addressed during prep, not after the green is down.
Usually only partly. Turf and a pad are not built to be driven on, so a garage green normally takes one bay while the other stays parking, or the car moves out for good. Worth deciding before we measure, because it sets the footprint and where the edge lands.
Most greens still go in the back yard, which is outdoor backyard putting greens.
Describe the room, the rough dimensions, and how you want it to putt. You get a call back with a real number, free and with no obligation.