What are the benefits of stall mats, if any? - Chronicle Forums

A lot of the stall and mat issues can depend on the fill-soil-dirt under the mats. The use of the old favorite footing of blue clay as stall footing did allow water and urine pooling even in deep bedding. My barn has layers of sand and crushed limestone as stall footing under the mats. The layers allow great drainage, nuetralizes ammonia, never gets smells.

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I like mats best, for the easy stall cleanup they allow. Here, freezing cold without mats, means you need to break off frozen -to-the-ground manure in stalls. The colder it is, the harder getting manure out is. Dirt floor is never smooth or level, like is possible with mats. Frozen poops may not break off neatly, leave rough tops until the ground thaws in spring! You can try beating the lumps off, but may be futile efforts, on a daily basis. Shovel or fork slid across a mat gets frosted/frozen manure piles up easily. I LOVE my stall mats, make my life much easier with daily cleaning of stalls.

Mats come with various surfaces. I see a small pebbled look, grooved, as well as smooth surfaces on mats. I prefer the pebbled type in stalls for the slightly better grip under hooves or shoes. Pebbled also cleans easily. Not much grip, but better than smooth surfaces. The grooved side is usually put on the ground side for drainage in stalls. However I put grooved side up, used out under the paddock gates where we lay mats to prevent terrible mud with daily gate use. Grooves usually give a better grip when raining, snowy, icy. Not perfect, just better than mud or the smoother mat surfaces.

As JB said, you may need to add bedding if they are stingy with it at the barn. Not much protection or absorbency without a bit of depth of sawdust or shavings on the mats. I like mats also for the insulating factor, protection from the cold dirt when they lay down at night.

There are a lot of options for how golf mats and tee lines are constructed. The reality is that many manufacturers take shortcuts to keep costs down, but who ultimately pays the price? Usually it&#;s the golfers, who must deal with the negative impacts on their practice, their games and even their bodies.

Most traditional golf mats and tee lines provide a relatively thin hitting surface with low pile turf. And when you combine that with placement of that turf directly onto a hard surface, the result can be excess movement underfoot during the swing, unwanted bounce of the clubhead on the hitting surface, and impact that can be painful to the golfer&#;s joints. Needless to say, none of that is good when you&#;re out practicing or playing on your home golf setup.

Steve Pate, 6-time PGA Tour winner, commented on such mat construction: &#;It&#;s so unrealistic as far as practicing, it&#;s like green painted concrete. You flinch down at the bottom, you&#;re always shallowing out your angle of attack&#; because it hurts.&#; (Incidentally, Pate collaborated with Fiberbuilt Golf in the design of its Player Preferred Series of golf mats to deliver a hitting surface for better players who appreciate improved feel and sound at impact.)

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Comfort and Injury Prevention &#; The rubber bases provide a level of cushioning that not only feels better under players&#; feet, but also helps reduce the &#;turf shock&#; often experienced with regular impact on traditional golf mats. This makes contact way more friendly to the body and helps eliminate any injuries to golfers&#; joints, even with a high level of swing repetition.

Performance &#; When you&#;re practicing on an artificial hitting surface, you want it to be as close to real turf as possible, especially when using a launch monitor to track your swing metrics or provide realistic playing conditions for a simulator setup. When hitting on mats with a rubber base, it can prevent additional, unwanted club bounce that alters the swing, and can help avoid a player changing their swing because they&#;re so worried about the pain caused by hitting the ground. Swinging with comfort and confidence is key to an accurate simulation of hitting on real fairway grass.

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