 I hope everyone is staying fit and well and managing to find a way through this situation right now. But one of the things it's done is probably taught us a bit of a lesson to say the least. But one thing it's done is it's took away things that we take for granted. And one of those things, and perhaps a bit of a menial one, is golf. And we realise how much we miss it when it's gone. I filmed my last video the day before the lockdown. Unfortunately, I'm struggling in terms of content. So I had to come up with an idea on how that, A, I could relieve the boredom from lockdown. And B, I might be able to get some content out in the weeks ahead. And by building this, I might just do both of those things. A few days ago, I had the idea to build a practice area in the back garden. And I started to do that. And you're going to need a number of things. And I want to show you how I ended up with this end product. So first of all, or maybe second, you're going to end up, you're going to need a list of materials, which I'll give you. But you're also going to need an understanding wife, because I've stuck this in a fairly protruding part of the garden. It's not hidden by any means. And ideally, the location would be sort of maybe at the back of a garage or a side wall would be absolutely perfect for it. But for me, it ended up being here. And there's a blossom tree that also had to be cut down a little bit. And it kind of kept that one quiet a bit. No, nothing. I'm just lying in the fire. It's gone cold out here. The blossom tree out the way and it's into materials. And before I go any further, there is a list of what you're going to need to make what is a three metre by three metre practice area. I'm also going to say that I took out a budget here and you'll see the list of materials there, £187, which for the quality, for the galvanised steel and all the rest of it, it's okay in terms of price, but it's by no means low on budget. And you can probably do this a lot cheaper. But I've built this within terms of galvanised steelwork because I want to keep it outdoor and I want to use it in the longer term. But like I said, there are probably more cost effective options. But anyway, first thing first is measure the pipework, get it cut to size. The company that I use, which I'll throw it for you now again, they will literally cut every size that you require if that's needed. So you don't even have to get the sort of hacksaw routes. But for me, it's quite simple. I built a very basic framework. And really that framework is to fit the size and measurements of your net. I will say that from the bottom end, so the bit that's at the bottom of the net, just leave a little bit of hang there because you want a little bit of excess material, which will help you in terms of deadening the impact of the ball when you strike the ball. So that's something to just bear in mind. But for me, you can see it's a case of putting together once you've cut your sizes of golf pipe to size, then it's a case of these very simple brackets, again available in all different shapes and sizes, to build your framing shape that you want. And it's an allen key adjustment just to put those together. And then it's a case of attaching it to the wall. So again, very, very simple. A few drill holes use those clamps. I've attached in four positions onto the wall to keep it nice and secure. But you could run the two legs right and left, right down to the bottom. And if you're hitting on, if you're securing to maybe a concrete base, then it might be ideal to secure them to the bottom as well. But again, that's something that's very much up to you. Right, next thing, get that netting out. Once you've got the netting out, I would suggest that you start on the top bit. You start in the middle and work your way outwards. And it's a case of cable ties. Get a heavy duty cable tie. Again, I included them in the price of materials that you're going to need at the beginning and start to put that together. And really, and pinning down the sides as well. And like I said, just leave that little bit of excess hang at the bottom. And that'll give you just that little bit and just takes a little bit of the impact blow. What you don't want to do is make it taught tight and end up creating a trampoline and getting yourself a good old whack in the face. So don't do that. So that is it. That's net built. That's all you need to do. But for me, it was something that, like I said, it's in a prominent position in the garnish. Once it's tied, you don't make it a little bit more presentable. So it was a case of a trip to or click and collect. I didn't go anywhere near the place. Being queued and ordered the sort of wooden timber framework that you can see. And again, very easy to put together. It's just some basic framework built on either side of the framework itself, attached again to the wall. And again, it's just clad, very simple cut to size, clad those things in and it just tidies it all up with it and looks a little bit prettier and hopefully keeps everybody onside. I'm not convinced that it'll ever get the thumbs up from the wife. But for me, like I said, what it's done, it's got a great practice area for me in the longer term, something that I've really liked the idea of. And something during the short period that gets you out into some fresh air, get some practice. My dad lives just across the way there so he can come and have his one hour a day, wherever it is, he's allowed to come out the house so he can have a bit of a practice in there as well. And I think that, like I said, I'm pretty pleased with the way this has come out. I think it's a good option and hopefully it might be some benefit to you as well. One thing I didn't mention was the matted area on the floor. I had a practice matt area that I've used and you can see in place. Now you don't need to go to that expense at all. And again, there's another link for someone on Amazon where they're selling a basic piece of artificial grass turf there. This was, I think it's £12.99. I can't remember what I dug up, but there's lots of options for you to create a hitting area which is perfectly adequate. And I think really, like I said, you can practice your short game. You can get driving into this net that I've missed the key important part. Don't let me forget this. The netting I've used is not golf netting. I can't believe that I forgot this because it's really key to this. I used a company and as you can see in the materials it was a company called Net World Sports and it was the most expensive or one of the most expensive parts of this whole thing and I spent near £100 on the netting. And the netting is not golf netting. It's used in archery and I cannot understand why this is not made more readily available in terms of golf netting because I think it's better. So we all know what golf netting looks like. It's generally green in colour and it's a crisscross pattern, whatever you want to call it, whatever the wording for that is. And it's okay. It does a great job. But you generally need a couple of layers of it to kill the ball in terms of deadening it on impact. But with this, it's very closely knit. It is, like I said, it's for archery. It's for obviously arrows and taking the impact of an arrow. And for me it's much more robust and it takes the impact of the ball far better. I don't know how it compares to the green netting but I do know it's far superior and like I said what I was building here is something that would work in the longer term not just to see me through this short spell, hopefully short spell of coronavirus. But anyway, that's what we ended up with. That's what we've got. I'm more than happy with that and I'm hoping Fingers Cross is one thing I need. I don't have a launch monitor. So if anybody out there that watches has got a launch monitor that they want to borrow me and I doubt there's anybody out there that's going to part with one of them right now that's what I could do with if we're going to get some videos done and start collecting some data in my new practice facility. Anyway, more importantly than all of this right now it's just about taking care, keeping healthy and if you don't want to spend 200 quid in building a net then do what lots of others have done and hang a quilt on the washing line and as long as you're not whacking it into next door neighbours garden and killing anybody then get whacking balls into a quilt on the line whatever it takes to get you out hitting some golf balls and keep you sane over these next few weeks. So like I said just do everything we should be doing we'll be back on those fairways sooner rather than later.