Practice putting surface

Claim 1

A practice putting assembly for indoor and/or outdoor use by a golfer, said assembly comprising a plurality of individual putting sections of identical square configuration, each section having four sides and a base portion with upper and lower surfaces, friction means secured to the lower surface to inhibit lateral movement of said section, a layer of synthetic artificial turf covering said upper surface, said turf having synthetic putting grass of a given height extending upwardly Therefrom, means securing said artificial turf layer to said upper surface at least around the edge areas of said surface, said upper and lower surfaces lying in parallel planes, said section having a general planar, flexible male fastening means on a first half of each side and a planar, flexible female fastening means on the second half of each side, each side having said male and female fastening means disposed in the same relationship so that a given side of one section will mate with either of two opposite sides of another section, whereby said sections are adapted to be assembled into various configurations to form said assembly simulating a continuous putting green surface, a plurality of border sections having an upper barrier portion, cooperative fastening means on each said putting section and on each border section, the configuration of each border section being such that when said border sections are fixed by said cooperative fastening means to a side of a putting section, the barrier portion thereof extends above said given height of said synthetic putting grass to prevent a golf ball from rolling off said assembly, at least two of said putting sections having vertically extending aperture means therein, a removable golf cup mounted in one of said aperture means and having an upper rim flush with the upper surface of said artificial turf, another aperture means receiving a removable insert member, said insert member being interchangeable with said golf cup and having a layer of synthetic artificial turf thereon and synthetic putting grass of a given height extending upwardly therefrom, said turf layer on said insert member being coplanar with said turf layer on said putting section.