Deciding to install a new tee line at your facility—whether it’s the first time or a replacement of a current installation—is no small endeavor. So at Fiberbuilt Golf, we want to make sure the entire process, from consideration through installation, is as accurate, efficient and easy as possible. When you work with Fiberbuilt, here’s the experience you can expect:
Stage I – Discovery
In order to provide the best recommendations for upgrading your facility, we’ll collaborate with you to better understand your needs and what’s meaningful to your players. Some of the information we’ll be looking for includes:
- Information about your current practice environment, i.e.:
– Is it all grass, all artificial turf or both?
– If you have both types of surfaces, how do you rotate usage?
– How much usage does your practice area get?
– What do you like and dislike about your current setup?
- Dimensions and shape of your range (includes measurements and Google Maps view) so we know the exact size and any curves that need to be designed into a layout
- How many hitting stations you want to accommodate
- Whether you prefer individual mats or a continuous tee line
- What type of player is your average customer, e.g. better players (often seen with private clubs), less experienced players (public facilities), or a wide range?
- What characteristics are most important to you, e.g. performance, durability, injury prevention, aesthetics, ability to swap out components, cost, etc.
- Technology you already have or may be integrating
- Other solutions you might be considering
- Timing for delivery
- Budget
Stage II – Proposal
We will talk through the entire discovery phase with you, and based on those inputs, we will put together a comprehensive recommendation document for your practice facility. It starts with recommendations for the ideal hitting surface and configuration for your tee line.
- Hitting Surface - While Fiberbuilt offers three hitting surface options, we generally recommend either the Fiberbuilt Grass Series or the Performance Turf series for range applications. The Fiberbuilt Grass Series is best for high volume ranges because of its ultra-durable hitting panels, and it also helps prevent injury to your golfers’ joints. The Performance Turf Series offers a uniform surface for both stance and hitting, making for a clean aesthetic, and flexibility for stall placement in a tee line. It also allows golfers to put real tees directly into the turf. (Note: If you want to try out each surface, we offer a demo program with mats using either surface.)
- Continuous Tee Line or Mats – We often recommend a continuous tee line (Fiberbuilt Grass Ultimate Tee Line or Performance Turf Tee Line, which can extend the full width of your range), because of its attractive, uniform look, and high level of utility. These tee lines are built on a modular rubber base that provides maximum stability and is also quick and easy to set up. We alternatively offer individual mats in either of our recommended hitting surfaces, if that’s your preference. Our Traditional mats, which are configured as single- or double-hitting with 4-foot depth, use Fiberbuilt Grass hitting panels while the Performance Turf hitting and stance surface is available in our Tee Boxes, which can be configured in virtually any width and depth you desire. (5’x5’ or 6’x6’ are our most popular, as they provide plenty of room for hitting and allow for rotating the turf multiple times to maximize its life.)
- Dimensions and Shape – Our tee lines can accommodate any depth, and they are generally available in 4-, 5- or 6-foot depths. They can also be configured in a straight line or we can accommodate virtually any curve your practice area might have.
- Border Turf Options – We also offer a Fiberbuilt Grass Fringe Tee Line configuration to provide a safety border of light rough at the back of the tee line that naturally blends with real grass to add aesthetic detail or depth to accommodate golfers’ bags, launch monitors, chairs, etc.
- Spacing – The standard Fiberbuilt Grass tee line’s hitting stall width is 10’ to provide ample spacing between golfers, and we also offer an 8’ narrow width option to maximize the number of golfers you can put on the tee line at once. (Performance Turf tee lines use a single surface, so you can use your own dividers to set up stall spacing as desired.)
With our recommendation, we will also provide:
- Detailed specs, technical drawings of the proposed tee line and a render of the configuration in your range environment.
- A complete Bill of Materials (BOM) to identify all components that will go into your tee line.
- Pricing for all materials, which includes shipping costs.
- Expected shipping and delivery dates.
The documentation will allow for approval of the recommendations and placement of your order. If you have any changes, we’ll collaborate with you on updated specs and provide a revised document.
Stage III – Delivery
Upon approval of the order, everything will start moving very quickly. Custom tee line orders usually ship within two weeks of the order being placed, and shipping time will then depend on your location. (If you have specific timing you need to address, please let us know.) We will put all base components, stance and spacer turf pieces and hardware on pallets, and longer pieces of turf (for Performance Turf tee lines) will be rolled and wrapped separately.
We will give you all of the shipping information (providers, pallets and components, delivery locations, timing, etc.) once the shipment has left our warehouse and we have tracking information to give you.
In the next blog, we will fully cover what it takes for you to install and maintain your tee line, but here’s what you can expect when you receive a Fiberbuilt tee line:
- All components, including rubbber base pieces, rubber wedge components for curved tee lines, connectors and pins to secure base pieces, hitting panels (with Fiberbuilt Grass tee lines or mats) to lay into the relevant base pieces, turf sections that sit on top, and tees for the hitting panels. (You can choose between rubber tees and friction-fit real tee holders.)
- Installation documentation for your particular tee line, including the materials list, technical drawings and renderings for your configuration, and assembly instructions for self-installation.
- Easy and quick assembly, generally being able to put an entire tee line together in half a day, depending on its size. (Obviously, the longer the tee line, the longer the installation time.)
- Tool-free setup, with a rubber mallet being the only tool you might choose to use to make inserting rubber base connectors easier. That means no gluing or screwing down components.
- Fiberbuilt customer service support in case you have any questions or anything is missing from your order.
- A one-year warranty on any manufacturer defects.
- SIMPLY THE BEST, MOST STABLE AND DURABLE TEE LINE IN THE BUSINESS.
For expert guidance on designing the right practice environment for your facility, call our design consultants at (833) 328-3218 or send us an email.
