'By rearranging a couple of pieces of furniture in my (and most every person’s) living room, I could create a course with unique holes featuring different “hazards” to play around as I tried to sink a ball into one of the mat’s three pins'
Photo: Liz Rotunno Over the years, as someone who grew up playing baseball, basketball, and football, my love for competing in sports became a love of watching them. But while cable television and streaming services are helping lots of people pass days spent sheltering indoors, for sports fans like me, they don’t offer much.
With few sports to watch — reruns are never as exciting, and the pretaped, pro-cornhole games some networks have been airing can only keep your attention for so long — I decided to buy an indoor putting mat I could use to work on my golf game until I can return to an actual green.
Putt-A-Bout Par 3 Putting Green $43 $50 now 14% off $43 Photo: Retailer Buy at Amazon Buy $54 at eBay Buy Once the mat arrived, I grabbed my putter and spent a couple of afternoons practicing. Functionally, it met all my expectations, and its three different holes make it kind of like three practice greens in one, since each requires a slightly different approach. But after several hours of using just the mat, I craved more of a challenge.
The author’s indoor course . Photo: John Rotunno I first laid out a dog-leg par two, then, by moving a table here and couch there, made par-three and par-four holes, until I had a nine-hole, par-27 course to play. By playing each hole twice, that became an 18-hole, par-54 course — which, while far from Augusta National, allowed my wife and I to play for hours together on a recent Saturday afternoon. As the match wore on, we made further tweaks, like adding coasters to demarcate the tee box.
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