Anatomy of a Championship-Standard Synthetic Green

Everything starts with 35mm of specialist golf turf, a dense, golf-specific fibre engineered for realistic ball behaviour rather than generic landscaping turf repurposed for golf. The fibre length and density are what let the surface hold a ball's flight path the way natural rough and fairway grass do.

Approximately 15kg of silica sand per square metre is built up near the height of the fibres, stabilising and loading the surface. A precise finishing process then lets the fibres naturally cover the infill, so the green reads as a continuous playing surface rather than turf sitting on top of visible sand.

Beneath the turf and infill sits an energy-absorption layer, the component that actually decides whether a ball pitches and holds or bounces straight through the green. It's this layer that absorbs the ball's landing energy on impact, the same job natural, well-maintained soil does under a real fairway.

Put together, the three layers let a ball pitch and hold on approach shots, including shots played from roughly 100 metres, while still maintaining a smooth, consistent putting roll on the same surface. That's the entire point of the construction system: one green that plays like several different parts of a real golf course.