I live in the northeast and because of our lovely, cold, and white golf deterrent, that graces our presence each winter, I am planning on building a 16' by 10' netted hitting area in my 18' by 11' garage area. It needs to be able to be taken down and stowed away easily, so that I can bring the car back in. The Largest obstacle I face is that my garage door track sits about 3 feet from the top of the ceiling and I have to be able to use the apparatus so that it will not interfere with the garage door open/closed or with the car when stowed away. Also there needs to be either all weather soft flooring or removable and stowable carpeting so that the golf balls don't bounce around my garage and so that the wet car tires won't ruin it.
At first I had the idea to use a rail system but figured that the wear and unreliability of the track, paired with the weight of the netting wouldn't work. I now have an idea that I believe will work. I am proposing to use a system which has a frame composed of two metal supports, lengthwise, connected by 2 cable wires, widthwise, supported from the ceiling by 4 pulleys one at each corner, of which the 2 right are detachable via hooks. Now, there are 3 sides of netting which hang down so that there is an open side to hit through, and a net on top for balls that go astray. To stow it away you lower the pulleys, roll up the 3 sides like curtains, detach the two hooks on the right side pulleys, attach the two metal lengthwise sidemembers together via hooks, collapsing the wires, and reel the two left side pulleys in, hanging the whole apparatus on the left side wall.
Now, so that balls don't escape I am going to have 4 hooks at each bottom corner which will attach to 4 hooks on the ground, inside of that there is a weighted rope attached to the net so that hopefully no balls make it to that point. And that is all for my long winded explanation of the device. Now, I plan on having a space heater since our winters are quite cold, I have already searched and found a camcorder for recording videos, I have purchased the Vijay mat, and also have a program to analyze swings. If anyone has any suggestion for addition, subtraction, completely new ideas, or just would like to comment, feel free. I have listed the requirements I set for myself in this project below.
- Affordable
- Simple
- Ease of use and Set-Up/Takedown
Hope I can post some before and after pics with your help.
At first I had the idea to use a rail system but figured that the wear and unreliability of the track, paired with the weight of the netting wouldn't work. I now have an idea that I believe will work. I am proposing to use a system which has a frame composed of two metal supports, lengthwise, connected by 2 cable wires, widthwise, supported from the ceiling by 4 pulleys one at each corner, of which the 2 right are detachable via hooks. Now, there are 3 sides of netting which hang down so that there is an open side to hit through, and a net on top for balls that go astray. To stow it away you lower the pulleys, roll up the 3 sides like curtains, detach the two hooks on the right side pulleys, attach the two metal lengthwise sidemembers together via hooks, collapsing the wires, and reel the two left side pulleys in, hanging the whole apparatus on the left side wall.
Now, so that balls don't escape I am going to have 4 hooks at each bottom corner which will attach to 4 hooks on the ground, inside of that there is a weighted rope attached to the net so that hopefully no balls make it to that point. And that is all for my long winded explanation of the device. Now, I plan on having a space heater since our winters are quite cold, I have already searched and found a camcorder for recording videos, I have purchased the Vijay mat, and also have a program to analyze swings. If anyone has any suggestion for addition, subtraction, completely new ideas, or just would like to comment, feel free. I have listed the requirements I set for myself in this project below.
- Affordable
- Simple
- Ease of use and Set-Up/Takedown
Hope I can post some before and after pics with your help.
