Patent ID: 7138026
Filing Date: 2006-11-21
Classification: A01G,Y10T

Abstract:
1. In a method of preventing crown hydration of a golf green, the improvement comprising: (a) providing a polyethylene tube; (b) stretching the polyethylene tube in order to form a stretched tube; (c) cutting the stretched tube in a spiral fashion to form a first sheet with force striations at an acute angle to an edge of the sheet; (d) forming a second sheet in a similar manner as the first sheet, the second also having force striations at an acute angle; (e) securing a surface of the first sheet to a surface of the second sheet with the force striations of the first sheet at a relative angle to the force striations of the second sheet to form a layered sheet; (f) providing a plurality of the layered sheets, the plurality of the layered sheets including at least a first layered sheet and at least a second layered sheet; (g) securing an edge of the at least a first layered sheet to an edge of the at least a second layered sheet a sufficient number of times to form a golf green cover; (h) reinforcing at least one part of the golf green cover to a reinforced section in order to permit receiving a releasable holding means; and (i) applying the holding means through the reinforced section.