Turf

The Field Turf concept is simple. The best surface for athletic contests - American football, soccer, rugby, lacrosse, baseball, and softball - is good natural grass. And synthetic turf should be like grass, not carpet. Field Turf's inventors were sportsmen - not carpet makers. Former players and coaches, not turf salesmen. They approached the challenge from a completely different perspective. They wanted to develop a synthetic system that offered the beneficial biomechanical properties of natural grass, combined with the best attributes of a durable synthetic system: all-weather playability, low maintenance, and unlimited playing time.

The idea was simple. Looks like Grass... Feels Like Grass...Plays Like Grass. But the technology to make it happen was not simple at all. After several years of hard work, after trials, tests, consultations with players, coaches, trainers and doctors, sample plots, equipment modifications, and countless formulations, Field Turf was born. Initially introduced for tennis and golf, then modified for soccer, and finally perfected even for American football and baseball, Field Turf revolutionized the turf industry, and in many ways, the entire world of sport.

The design of the Field Turf fabric is radically different. Field Turf is the original wide gauge, tall pile fabric, and this design is also patented. The distance between the rows of fibers tufted into the backing is very wide, and related directly to the height of the pile fibers. The taller the pile, the wider the distance between the fibers. This patented formula means the special filling or "synthetic earth" that is layered into the pile fibers is carefully controlled in terms of weight, density and thickness. Why is this so important? The designers at Field Turf discovered that the only way to truly emulate natural grass is to combine all these elements into an integrated system. The tall pile, wide gauge design allows cleated shoes to penetrate the fibers, plant into the special sand/rubber infill, twist easily and release (with minimal torsional resistance).

This design accounts for the documented reduction in lower extremity injuries and significantly reduced neural injuries of players who compete on Field Turf, even compared to natural grass!

Injury Incidence Study '03 — Bill S. Barnhill, MD

We did 7 on 7 on Field Turf and the kids loved it. Twice, it rained like the dickens before we were scheduled to play and we played with no one slipping on the field. It drains well and you can wear regular cleats on it. We are getting a synthetic field in 3 years and the kids are looking forward to practicing and playing on it.

When you factor in the costs of maintaining a grass field, the turf field will pay for itself over time and you will not have to replace anything for 15 years.

I highly recommend it.