Another DIY Things

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One of the things I like doing is when I see something being promoted by others at highly inflated prices, is to "sort of" duplicate it myself for a fraction of the cost. It's kind of a hobby of mine. 

Golf has alot of high priced training aids to work with.

I once made a shag stick out of some old pvc pipe I had laying around. Held 48 balls. Cost me $0.89 for a cap. 

Alot of us have built our own practice nets, that saved us some coin. 

I saw an advertisement for a chipping/pitching folding, basket net $29.95 was the selling price. Not a bad price. I had an old collapsible camping chair that had seen better human butt supporting days. It did basically the same thing for $9.95 if I were to buy one new. The child size one's work best, as they are about the right height for chips.. 

My favorite one is a piece of metal 6 inches wide by 16 inches long. I had a friend with a Shop Smith put a arc in it. I then glued some synthetic turf to one side. The bowed arc, and turf gave me a base to hit irons off of, that would depress when struck by an iron, but would also spring back up to it's normal position. Cost me a six pack, and maybe $5.00 in parts. Yes, the turf wears out, but the metal plate retains it's spring board effect for quite a while. 

A friend of mine bought a three wheel trolley at a yard sale. $15.00. It was a baby stroller, that he turned into a golf bag trolley. If not for the larger diameter bike wheels, you can't tell the difference. 

There are a lot of ideas out there.