I REALLY wanted a putting green, my wife gave me the green light, but with a budget. I started with…read moreonly wanting a little putting green, 500 sqft, with 350 or so of actual surface. I shopped around - a newspaper ad, a referral from someone with a small putting green - these two companies came in at just around 9G.
Then I posted a request on Yelp and Epic responded. I met MARCO with EPIC LANDSCAPES and he came in with a bid almost 1/3 less. So, with the budget, I could go bigger! Once we saw how big of a green we could do, we looked at the whole backyard and thought...do we want ALL turf? HELL YEAH.
We ended up spending 1.5x more for the WHOLE YARD than the newspaper-ad company's bid for only 500 sqft. I think we ended at 2000 sqft with 500 sqft of beautiful, sloped, (with a mound,) six holes, masterpiece!
I must have been THAT customer with Marco, calling him, changing our minds, the shape, the size, this corner, this sprinkler head. The dude kept up. They were on time, the whole crew worked like a well-oiled machine, they finished ahead of schedule, and have returned to maintain small issues that we have had - a sprinkler head, and some turf that just wasn't tamped down enough.
My wife and I couldn't be happier. What was a muddy eye-sore has now become a challenging work of art. We spend countless hours outside and I have lost many putting contests.
If you want a putting green, be smart, shop around, see what's out there, but be sure to give EPIC LANDSCAPES a call, you'll be very glad you did.