Putting the Player in PELZ Player Greens
The famous Dave Pelz backyard, nearly two acres of glorious artificial green complexes, practice facilities, and replicate holes of the greatest in the game, covering what Dave himself says as “every shot a golfer could face from forty yards and in.”
It’s truly a golfers’ playground, a laboratory for performance success for the best golfers in the world, and where Dave continues to innovate teaching and practice methods for what he calls, “the scoring game.”
It’s the very reason PGA TOUR legends like Dave’s longtime student, Phil Mickelson, attends his backyard for weeks at a time to tune up his wedge play and putting. But the layout isn’t the only reason why Dave’s backyard is the go-to for the best in the world, as Ben Hogan once said, “the secrets in the dirt.”
But since there is no dirt to be found in Pelz’s backyard, we can say that “the secrets in the turf.”
Wall to wall synthetic turf for a golf practice facility certainly isn’t new or innovative, but where Pelz’s facility stands out, and what drives a number of PGA TOUR players to work on their games there, is Pelz’s patented ShotStopper technology.
Hitting into a traditional synthetic turf green on a driving range, or wherever we golfers find them, has always been marred with the popular notion of unpredictability. Wild bounces off the concrete subsurface, the lack of control, the unrealness of the interaction of the ball on the ground, and for that, the player has never taken synthetic turf very seriously.
But that has all changed with ShotStopper technology.
ShotStopper is Pelz’s own creation, and the innovation in the relationship between the turf material and the base layer mimics to a tee the effects that real turf has on the golf ball. Whether hitting low spinning chip shots, high soft flop shots, or full swing wedges, ShotStopper is the secret to bringing a synthetic turf solution, that’s as good or better as real grass, to the golfing public. No longer is Pelz’s backyard a hidden-away oasis, no longer are year-round perfectly conditioned greens out of reach.
Enter PELZ Player Greens, Dave Pelz’s public enterprise that provides design, architecture and construction services to the likes of individual golfers, golf courses, and businesses looking to install a synthetic turf facility.
The advantages to a PELZ Player Green is written in the turf. Along with the innovative new ShotStopper technology, a true replicate for the perfectly conditioned green, PELZ Player Greens are the only synthetic turf solution for a cold Canadian climate as the only maintenance required is a snow shovel and a leaf blower. The turf itself has a 30-year lifespan and does not need recovery time from extreme weather events like rain, heat, frost or snow. They can even be built indoors, as there is no requirement for sunlight or nutrients.
They are extremely environmentally conscious, as no water, pesticides or fertilizers are needed, keeping maintenance costs at an absolute minimum. And possibly the most interesting advantage is that they are not limited by the constraints of environmental or topographic influences like real grass. They can be designed into an unlimited array of shapes and sizes, sweeping slopes and water features, bunkering and pin locations.
Your dream is a reality with PELZ Player Greens.
