My new indoor hitting setup

[TD22057]

I just finished an indoor golf net and thought I would share.  The room is about 14' wide and has 9' ceilings which allows me to hit up to a hybrid without any problem.  It's mounted on one wall in our exercise room and I needed it to be retractable so the sides are mounted on tracks in the ceiling with rollers.  The net itself is a custom order from http://gourock.com.  They were great to deal with - I sent them a drawing of what I wanted, they sent me back a blueprint and a quote the next day, I agreed and had the net in my hands a week later.

Getting the net set up properly required a bit of work after it arrived.   There are heavy ropes around the perimeter of the net but the net is not stretched inside the ropes - so if you tension the ropes, it doesn't put a lot of tension on the net.  This is fine if you have space, but since the back of my net is near a wall, it means that balls would be bouncing off the walls very easily.  I solved this problem my mounting shelf brackets on the sides and the bottom, weaving fiberglass poles (reflector poles from Lowes - also useful as alignment sticks) into the net, and attaching the poles to the brackets with chain.  This way I have a hard mount 10" out from the wall and the chain let me adjust the tension of the net.  The hitting panel hanging in front of the net absorbs the initial impact and then the tensioned back wall of the net stops it from getting to the wall.  Because the sides of the net are hanging on chains from the track, they don't really tension the top of the net either - I added an 8' long aluminum pole (from McMaster-Carr) which is woven inside the net at the top.  It keeps the front of net from sagging and the net slides over it easily when it's pushed back up against the wall.  The hitting mat is from http://www.realfeelgolfmats.com/ and is the best mat I've found.

I'm really happy with how this project turned out.  The nearest range from my house is 20 minutes each way and has terrible mats so I never bothered going.  This way I can hit 30-40 balls per day in a short amount of time in the comfort of my home.

[Inebriated]

I envy you...

[tristanhilton85]

Very cool... I would love to have something like this.