Projects / 4/27/2024

Golfland Family Entertainment Park

Adhesives and tapes to install synthetic turf in a brand new Portoguese sports centre aimed at both the young and old

Golfland Family Entertainment Park in Alvor, Algarve (Portugal), features a new 18-hole miniature golf course, complete with dining and virtual golf experiences. The installation of durable synthetic turf was achieved using ULTRABOND TURF 2 STARS adhesive and specific tapes, ensuring a resistant playing surface suitable for all weather conditions.

Exploring Algarve's newest gem: the Golfland Family Entertainment Park in Alvor

The Algarve region, one of the most loved destinations for international and Portuguese tourists, is not only long, sandy beaches, high cliffs with a sheer drop to the ocean, ancient cities with historic monuments and restaurants with delicious traditional dishes. It is also an area that offers comfort and modern, multi-faceted services to visitors, as well as a host of other opportunities for young and old alike to play sport and enjoy their stay.

One such example is the new Golfland Family Entertainment Park in Alvor, one of the most beautiful resort towns of the Algarve and surrounded by lush vegetation. It includes an 18-hole miniature golf course, a restaurant, three bars and a terrace overlooking the course. The offer is completed by two Trackman simulators where visitors can “try out” the most famous golf courses from around the world with the aid of a virtual coach.

The golf course has been made even more beautiful thanks to the inclusion of waterfalls, rocks that look like ancient ruins, plants and flowers and offers families, beginners and expert golfers the chance to play a fun-filled round of golf on their own, or to take lessons from one of the professional golfers based at the centre.

ULTRABOND TURF 2 STARS was used to install synthetic turf surfaces in several areas of this entertainment park.

Sound installation of synthetic turf surfaces

The course winds its way between various attractions (bars and a restaurant) and decorative features and services (animal statues, ponds, water courses, stone pathways and gazebos). This made installation of the synthetic turf surfaces at the centre particularly challenging, because resistance to the impact of numerous tourists playing golf and the durability of the turf surfaces also had to be guaranteed.

This challenge was overcome thanks to ULTRABOND TURF 2 STARS, a two-component, solvent-free polyurethane adhesive specifically developed for the installation of synthetic turf playing surfaces. Thanks to its special formulation, once set, this product has very high tensile and tear strength, making it ideal for installing synthetic turf systems for sports use, including surfaces requiring approval from sporting bodies, such as FIFA (International Football Federation).

Rolls of synthetic turf are installed by using ULTRABOND TURF TAPE PRO seaming tape with ULTRABOND TURF 2 STARS tape.

When creating both indoor and outdoor surfaces, rolls of synthetic turf are installed by bonding special seaming tapes from the ULTRABOND TURF range (ULTRABOND TURF TAPE 100, ULTRABOND TURF TAPE 300 or ULTRABOND TURF TAPE PRO). In the case of the miniature golf course in Alvor, the product used was ULTRABOND TURF TAPE PRO.

The special rheological properties of ULTRABOND TURF 2 STARS, combined with its controlled viscosity, makes it easy to spread the adhesive over the whole width of the seaming tapes while maintaining excellent ridge holding, including in particularly hot summer weather.

The lines of the playing areas were bonded with ULTRABOND TURF PU 1K, a moisture-curing, polyurethane adhesive which, apart from having excellent ridge holding and being very easy to use, is a one-component product and is supplied ready to use, so does not need to be mixed with a catalyser.

Resistant and durable green surfaces are now available for all the guests of Golfland Family Entertainment Park.