- 07/07/2025
Joe Ferguson tests 5 of the latest golf nets in his garden and gives pros and cons of each to help you pick the right model for you
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00:00I've been looking at some of the best golf practice notes to show you what options are
00:04out there for your home practice. I've looked at five different models across sort of five
00:10different price points to give you an idea of what you can get for your money. Now if you do like the
00:15look of anything you see within this video I've put some handy links in the description below to
00:19get you the best prices for your region so without further ado let's get stuck in and start looking
00:24at the first net. So I want to start with the Forb ProFlex pop-up driving net or cage or you might
00:34have seen it as the Forza net depending on where you are in the world it seems to be named differently
00:39which is a little bit strange to start. Now I've seen this online for around the 280 pound mark
00:44or around 400 dollars in the US so this is one of the pricier models that I've looked at and compared
00:50the other stuff too it is however very very good. Now starting with the assembly putting it up I
00:56found very easy but there is a caveat to that I've been using this on and off most of the winter so
01:01I've done it a few times I've been taking it up and down all winter so I'm having to take myself back
01:05to kind of the first time I put it up and from memory I did find it a little bit fiddly there's
01:10quite a few poles you need to put together and work out where they go there's I think there's six
01:16columns you need to use working out where they go and what they fit into is a little bit tricky
01:21to start with but as I said having done it a few times it is really straightforward to get stuck
01:26into and once it's up it's absolutely excellent what I love about this is the depth and the height
01:32of it it feels very very safe because you can get very much up close and personal to the net so you
01:37don't have to go a long way back because there's so much depth before you get to the back wall so it
01:41allows you to hit some more lofted clubs not fearing you're going to go over it and it will catch the
01:46shankiest of all shanks basically so long as you're not hitting the ball backwards this net
01:51will catch the ball so it is incredibly safe and because of that I'm actually naming this one my best
01:56for safety out of everything that I've tried one negative would say however if you do live in a windy
02:03area you are going to need to take this down this isn't a net you'd want to leave up there's quite
02:07a lot of surface area that the wind picks and I've been caught by this I've had to sort of rescue
02:12the net in the morning from quite precarious positions in the garden because the wind has
02:16gotten up overnight it does come with pegs to secure it into place but I found those were a
02:20little bit lightweight for the size of the structure so you're either going to need to take it down
02:24or you're going to want to invest in some slightly better more heavy duty pegs
02:28So the second net I want to talk to you about is called the Galileo the gagalilio the gallo again
02:38it's named a few different things and there's a common theme developing here I think a lot of
02:43these nets are created at kind of a central manufacturer and then handed around amongst
02:47different distributors who name them slightly different things depending on maybe the region
02:51that they're being sold in now this one comes in around 70 pounds or 80 dollar mark it's a nice
02:57simple product it's actually a bit like a camping tent you may have put up before and it goes up in
03:01much the same way now speaking of the setup it is a little bit fiddly you've kind of got two long poles
03:08that break down into smaller pieces you have to fit them together and then you've got to slot them
03:12through a gap crisscross them at the top there's only two pieces but the actual process of it is a
03:18little bit fiddly and I found it a bit frustrating at times I'm not good with fiddly things but once
03:22you've done that it pretty much pops into place the tension created there pops it into the shape
03:28it needs to be and then all you've got to do is hang up the target or the protective screen that
03:32creates a nice double skin you're more or less good to go there so I guess once you're over the slight
03:38frustration getting those poles up it is a pretty straightforward setup there's a couple of
03:41things I don't love here they're probably from a safety point of view there's no sides on this net so if
03:46you're prone to a wonky one or a dreaded shank I wouldn't necessarily be setting this one up
03:51facing the car in case one slips by there's also I wouldn't necessarily be that comfortable hitting
03:58wedges because where the crisscross at the top those poles cross over it's quite firm there's not much
04:04room between the skin of the net and those poles so if you lofted one into a cross section I'd be a
04:09little bit concerned about that ricocheting where it might go so for me if you're hitting anything that's
04:16not likely to hit the double skin the protective target screen you might be better with some
04:21less than firm less than real golf balls maybe airflow balls or some softer balls that are available
04:27now taking it down is much easier than many others it's literally just slide those poles back out
04:32fold up the net cloth and you're good to go so simple but pretty effective some safety issues maybe that
04:39you want to think about when you're laying it out but for me I would say that's my best value option
04:48okay number three the third net I'm looking at is the sim space deluxe practice net comes in at around
04:54the 300 pound mark or 400 dollars I've seen it in the us and I have to say putting this up for the
05:00first time is a bit of a nightmare and truth be told it's definitely a two-person job although it does say
05:05that in the instructions it's not trying to pull the wool over your eyes there it does recommend having
05:09a couple of people to do it that's something to bear in mind and I had to get my wife involved as
05:14you can see here to help with the setup staying on the setup there's a few different angles and poles
05:20that bend at different angles that you can go a little bit wrong with when you're setting up and
05:24as you'll probably see here I did that quite a few times so I found that initial setup a little
05:29bit frustrating once you've done it once however it's an absolute doddle you can see where everything's
05:33supposed to have gone and hindsight as we know is a wonderful thing and the end result is a very
05:39very sturdy product it's got some great side protection and the net to me felt the strongest
05:45and probably the most durable of anything of the selection that I tried so that was a real plus point
05:51I'd feel a lot more confident leaving this one out in the wind too due to the nice wide
05:56base area and it's got some real weight to it this one's this felt really sturdy so in terms of
06:01leaving it out for the night in a bit of a high wind I would be a bit more comfortable doing so
06:06than some of the others that I've tested here and I'll probably name this my most sturdy and stable option
06:16next up we have the Spornia SPG7 and this one comes in I've seen it around 300 pounds in
06:22Great Britain or around 300 dollars in the US and if it's ease of setup you are looking for
06:28then look no further than the Spornia basically you just get it out of the box pull it out the
06:33bag and it springs into life all you've got to do there is add a couple of supports to the side
06:38and one optional one across the top and Bob's your uncle you're good to go it's as simple as that
06:43literally just does it itself and one thing you can feel throughout this net is it's serious quality
06:49the build quality is exceptional you can feel the materials are well put together and it's a really
06:53strong net now I'm also naming this one my best for features because it's absolutely packed with
06:59them we've got roof protection we've got side protection we've even got the base angled back
07:04at you so the balls roll back to your feet for the lazy golfers amongst you like me there's a good
07:09target in there as well to focus your eye and focus your practice a little bit more and as I said
07:14it just feels really well made and very very sturdy now putting it away is probably pretty easy for a
07:19normal human being the instructions are there for you but I found it really tricky and I find these
07:24things tricky so I'm probably a good person to be testing this stuff out and once again I had to call
07:28my wife in to sort it out but once she did that it was pretty self-explanatory I say self-explanatory
07:34she explained it to me and I worked it out afterwards and I would say up and down this is a really easy net to use
07:40the final net I want to show you is the long ridge quad now I've seen this anywhere between 90 pounds
07:50and 150 pounds online it's very similar to the Spornia in terms of the setup it's one of those nets
07:56you just pull out of the bag that's sort of tension folded and it just springs into life and it does
08:01almost all of the work for you you then just have to add four poles there's a couple of different lengths
08:06you just add them into a couple of support slots and the net takes shape then all you've got to do
08:11is hang the target on the back net and you're up and running a couple things I really enjoyed about
08:17this net I really enjoyed the depth of the net again there's a little bit of deep kind of more of
08:22a cage feel to it rather than some of the nets you feel you're just hitting into a flat screen there's
08:26a bit of depth to it although the height of the net prohibits you from getting too close to really take
08:33advantage of that depth because you would catch the top of the net on the follow through if you got
08:38close enough to take advantage however there is a fixed side net to allow you to go a little bit
08:43further back now it was fixed in place and I don't know whether I just got lucky and ordered a right
08:47handed one I can't quite remember there but this was on the right hand side so I'm guessing you could
08:52probably order a left-handed one as well where that net is fixed on the other side to catch the shanks
08:58now there's a couple of things I didn't necessarily love on that fixed side netting it seemed
09:03very easy if you hit a low shank for the ball to kind of slide under that little gap there wasn't
09:08it wasn't very tight to the floor and wasn't very robust so while it's there I wasn't sure of
09:13necessarily about how effective it would be and the noise because the net the protective bit or the
09:18target area in the net only clipped on at the top two areas it wasn't tensioned at the bottom
09:24there was quite a big impact noise when the ball hits and quite a noticeable third and I've got
09:29neighbors who live a little close by as you'll see in this video and I would imagine that would be a
09:33little bit distracting and annoying for them if I was out there all summer popping balls into this
09:38net at that kind of noise but overall for the price the ease of putting up how sturdy it was
09:44and I really like the shape of it I think this is a really good brilliant value option
09:51so I hope that's given you a good idea of what's out there and what's available in the home practice
09:56golf net space and what sort of prices you might expect to pay now if you were to push me and price
10:01wasn't an object I think I would probably end up purchasing the Spornia net as I said I found it
10:07extremely well made it was packed with features I really like that the ball would just keep rolling
10:11straight back to my feet because I'm lazy like that but overall it just felt like a very good safe option
10:16and that's important to me when selecting a home practice net what did you think is there anything
10:21you like the look of let me know in the comments and I'll see you next time
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