{"id":2082,"date":"2012-04-22T19:34:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T23:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/?p=2082"},"modified":"2024-06-03T14:41:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T18:41:42","slug":"ladder-golf-construction-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/ladder-golf-construction-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ladder Golf Construction Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Spring is here, and that means it’s time to prepare for summer parties. If you’re me, that means making a ladder golf<\/a> set. It seems like every year I’m making another one, the previous-year’s set having been gifted or left somewhere.<\/p>\n

Over the years I’ve picked up a few tricks, and this time around I finally remembered to document them.
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When making the bolas, I’ve found the through-hole<\/a> method to be rock-solid and maintenance free. It took me a little while to find a painless way to crank these out.<\/p>\n

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\nI like to use a 1\/4″ nylon rope and a 1\/4″ hole, so stringing the rope can be difficult. My first trick is to taper the rope at the tip and tape it to something thin and rigid. Here I’m using a skewer, but I’ve used a piece of wire in the past.<\/p>\n

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\nThe second trick is to put all the golf balls on the rope first, before double-knotting and cutting each bola.<\/p>\n

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The last thing I do on each bola is melt the end of the rope with an open flame, permanently locking the knot in place.<\/p>\n

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Making the ladder is straight-forward, so I won’t bother explaining that in detail. Two things I’ve learned though:<\/p>\n