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Real Bentgrass vs. Synthetic Greens
Question: What is better a real bentgrass green or a synthetic?
Recent innovations in technology have brought synthetic greens to the home golf market. Now, you can have a green of any shape, size or configuration build for you, indoors, outdoors, on patios, decks etc. These greens require no maintenance and are installed by professionals. You can find several excellent vendors on the internet. Try this link to Putting Green Vendors on Yahoo. Anyway, I thought that I would give you my opinion on the advantages and disadvantages of each. These are purely my opinion.

TURF TYPE	PRO	CON
REAL BENT GRASS	Taking care of the grass is in itself a hobby	Special Knowledge required
	Aesthetically pleasing and beautiful	Maintenance time
	Can change hole locations and conditions	Need a greens mower ($$$)
	Inexpensive and fast growing from Seed	Requires Irrigation ($$$)
SYNTHETIC	No Maintenance required	Hole locations fixed in concrete
	Very realistic action	Can be "fake" looking in your yard
	Can be built anywhere	Somewhat expensive even for small greens
	No worries	Requires professional installation

Building a real green isn't for everyone and synthetics may offer you what you are looking for. For more information on synthetic greens surf the web .. there are hundreds of companies that offer synthetic green products. Some are available as do-it-yourself installation kits. Others require professional installation. Here are some photos of synthetic greens.