Hitting mat

[Boverton]

Time for a new mat. What’s the best $200 5x5 mat to buy and where?

[triplebogeysrbetter]

Time for a new mat. What’s the best $200 5x5 mat to buy and where?

IMHO - If you're only going to spend $200 on the mat. Unless you find a great used deal. Your doing yourself a disservice.
Do your research and invest in a great mat, If not in 6 months while nursing a sore elbow you will be. :-)

[andygg1986]

If you are handy, you could buy a couple of fiberbuilt panels and build your own surrounding frame with AstroTurf for close to $200. Then your hitting surface is premium and you are just sacrificing on where you stand. That may not be an option depending on how your sim is setup though.

[trhuke]

That's what I did after purchasing a County Club Elite mat and switching to the Fiberbuilt hitting panel has been a dream compared to the County Club Elite.
I bought some heavy foam interlocking floorpads from Lowes, stuck them on a piece of plywood, wrapped the whole thing in astroturf so it matched the height of the Fiberbuilt panel and I was off to the races.

[wbond]

If you DIY something, you can get a great mat and stay near that range. You would need to make a hitting platform, and you can drop in two 1'x1' fiberbuilt sections and I believe they can be had for under $200


Edit:Looks like andy above had the same idea

[Alphaseekr]

Allturfmats they make basically a CCE equivalent mat.
You find their store on eBay too.
Excellent seller ratings.

[trhuke]

Not to be a jerk but I had a CCE mat and it really caused me a lot of pain. Awfully "firm" surface, not much give at all in my opinion.

[Boverton]

Thanks everyone.