Home Green Advantage in the Media
HGA Radio Segment on Greenwich Radio Station - 2008
Meet the Owner and Founder of Home Green Advantage. Once a CPA the primary focus of his firm Home Green Advantage is to design and build personal putting greens, tee boxes, sand traps, or entire par 3 golf holes. HGA greens will enhance the beauty of any property while providing you the convenience to practice anytime of the day. HGA helps golfers improve their short game in the comfort of their own property and is the leader in building personal putting greens in the New York Metropolitan area.
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"Hone Your Game For Home"
Home greens make practice super-convenient — and fun.
By my very rough calculations, one guy has built more golf greens in Westchester and the Hudson Valley than the legendary golf architect A.W. Tillinghast. He’s Michael Lehrer, owner of Home Green Advantage, who has designed and constructed more than 350 greens—and full holes—on sites ranging from high rise rooftops in Manhattan to private homes in Westchester and Fairfield counties.
Lehrer’s greens are different from Tilly’s, though—you don’t need to mow or fertilize them. That’s a major advantage for a homeowner who’s more interested in grooving a smooth putting stroke than pampering a hypersensitive lawn.
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FORE FROM HOME
Home Green Advantage brings golf to the backyard
Written by Ken Borsuk, Staff Reporter
Michael Lehrer knows why people love golf. “There’s such skill involved,” Mr. Lehrer said. “There’s a challenge in hitting that perfect shot. It’s so elusive. You can keep searching forever for that perfect swing. That’s what draws you in and keeps you coming back to it.” Mr. Lehrer isn’t just talking about his own passion for the game. As president of Home Green Advantage, he’s worked with homeowners all over Connecticut and New York to bring the challenge and fun of the golf course right to their homes. Since he started his business in 1996, Mr. Lehrer has installed 375 personal putting greens, tee boxes, sand traps and even three-hole mini courses for golfers both casual and religious.
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BOONE & KURTZ CONTEMPORARY BUSINESS
"Characteristics of Entrepreneurs"
The examples of entrepreneurship you’ve read about so far suggest that people who strike out on their own are a different breed. Successful entrepreneurs are more likely to have had parents who were entrepreneurs. They also tend to possess unique personality traits. Researchers who study successful entrepreneurs report that they are more likely to be inquisitive, passionate, self-motivated, honest, courageous, flexible, intelligent, and reliable people.
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The not- so-exclusive-club
HOME GREENS ARE ALL THE RAGE FOR GOLFERS -
By Todd Sliss
Jim Chin is a popular guy in Ardsley. “You’re the guy with the golf course in your backyard,” people exclaim when they see him. Well, not exactly, Chin tells them, “It’s only one hole.”
Nonetheless, Chin, whose green is visible from Heatherdell Road, is the envy of many in golf-obsessed Westchester County, but he is only one of hundreds in the region to have had a custom golf green with tee boxes installed on his property by Michael Lehrer of Home Green Advantage. Chin made provisions for the golf hole on his acre of land when his new house was being constructed and the property landscaped in 1999.
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"From green to greens: Ex-accountant Michael Lehrer's new golf gig"
"Course of Action"
as told to Amy S. Choi
How accountant Michael Lehrer mastered another green.
Michael Lehrer, 48, used to be a successful accountant with a bad golf habit. In 1993 he tore apart his backyard in Armonk, NY and build a 2,000-square-foot putting green. His neighbors thought he was crazy. A year later, some were asking him to tear up their yards, too. Now Lehrer's $1 million company, Home Green Advantage, builds 40 greens a year in places from lush suburbia to Manhattan rooftops. The greens run from about $25,000 to $35,000.
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Back Yard Full Of Birdies And Bogeys
by Sam Weinman
The sign next to Michael Lehrer's driveway reads, "I only golf on days that end in a 'Y.' "
For Lehrer, that's not much of an undertaking.
In the back yard of his Armonk home, Lehrer, the president and founder of Home Green Advantage, has not only a natural green and a synthetic green, but also a half-dozen different tee boxes. The longest shot is some 130 yards. Disregard the house for a moment, and you feel like you could be at a private club. Home Green Advantage founder Michael Lehrer has built more than 200 greens, including this one in the back yard of his Armonk home.
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TEE TIME: Hitting The Links At Home
by Deborah Raider Notis
What’s the new golfing hotspot for Westchester and Connecticut’s elite? Believe it or not, it’s right in their backyards. Thanks to Armonk resident Michael Lehrer’s Home Green Advantage, courses are coming home.
Just ask Greenwich resident Ahmad Rashad. “I love that I can go home, go outside, and practice my golf game,” says the former NFL All-Pro. “Any time I feel like it, I just go out there and putt,” he says of his four-year-old green. “Its large, private, and convenient,” stresses Rashad. “Plus, there’s no upkeep. I’ve improved my putting accuracy seventy to eighty percent.”
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Owning your own putting green can definitely improve your game.
Play It Short. by Bill Slocum
THE PENNANT FLAPS ATOP a thin fiberglass, presenting a target both enticing and maddeningly elusive. Around it, a wide expanse of virgin green beckons, as lush as anything you would find at a local golf course. But this hole isn't at the Round Hill Club or the Griff. It's in the middle of a guy's backyard.
From the second-story porch of the house you can try a choked-up pitching wedge, maybe even a sand wedge if the wind lets up. Dare you go for the green? What if you miss and ding the pickup in the driveway?
By my very rough calculations, one guy has built more golf greens in Westchester and the Hudson Valley than the legendary golf architect A.W. Tillinghast. He’s Michael Lehrer, owner of Home Green Advantage, who has designed and constructed more than 350 greens—and full holes—on sites ranging from high rise rooftops in Manhattan to private homes in Westchester and Fairfield counties.
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GREEN ACRES
These days when Peter Ciccone needs a golf fix, he doesn't have to worry about tee times, crowded courses, pesky dress codes, or pushy foursomes rushing to play through.
In fact, if playing in pj's strikes his fancy, he can do that too.
Since April, Ciccone has only to putter out the front door of his Port Chester home and into his graceful, lilac-bordered yard in order to chip and putt to his heart's content. His par 3 golf green features two tees, one at 80 yards, the other at 50 yards, and two snowy-white sand bunkers that add authenticity to the game.
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Putting in Your Own Backyard
Installing Greens, the Latest Must-Have for Homeowners
By Kate Stone Lombardi
Blame Tiger (Woods) Mania. Since 1986, the number of golfers in the United States has increased 33 percent. There are 26.4 million golfers age 12 and older, according to the National Golf Foundation, an industry market research and trade group in Jupiter, Fla. And they’re willing to pay to play. Golfers spend $30.5 billion annually on equipment, related merchandise and playing fees. In a strong economy, the business of home putting greens is taking off.
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"Michael Lehrer is changing the game of golf one high-rolling backyard at a time. Lehrer, who's a certified public accountant, left his 80 hour-a-week number-crunch-ing job in 1996 to create Home Green Advantage, a company that installs natural and synthetic greens for clients ranging from Fortune 500 CEOs to former NFL All-Pro Ahmad Rashad. Lehrer, who has been contacted by both Hillary Clinton and Mel Gibson, has installed more than 100 putting greens in the past four years—from backyards and basements to rooftops and office spaces. Lehrer constructed the slippery 100 foot putting surface for Maximum Golf's May 23 launch party at the Central Park boathouse in New York. The $1 million contest was aced by British Airways executive Woody Harford. So what are Lehrer's plans for the future? "I'd like to float a putting green in the Hudson River," he says, "and throw another Maximum Golf party."— Wendy Straker |
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N.Y. dreamer will build par 3 in your backyard
Ever have the urge to drop everything in life, say "to hell with it all," and just live out your fantasy? Michael Lehrer, a certified public accountant by trade, is now a certified public fanatic about his new life since he brushed his previous life aside to pursue his dream. And, not only is Lehrer doing everything he always wanted to, but he's actually making a damn good living doing it. Among other things such as producing a line of clothing called, "Fairway to Heaven," Lehrer designs and builds par 3 golf holes on people's private property.
If you're a golf nut, and would love to practice at home, what better way than to have a hole in your back yard? Talk about private golf. This is the ultimate. Lehrer doesn't profess to rival the marvelous things that Donald Ross has done for golf courses or being a young Tillinghast or even competing with today's best course designers such as Rees Jones for example. He has his own niche and loves it. He's living it.
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For Ardent Golfers, Home Putting Greens
Oh, to be on your own golf course now that spring is here. Fantasy? Not exactly. Behind the picket fence surrounding a Colonial style house here is a golf green, complete with teeing area, sand trap and fairway, all of it the work of a company called Home Green Advantage in Armonk. Since opening for business in 1997 Home Green Advantage has installed about 17 home putting greens, Michael Lehrer, the company's founder and president, reported.
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Entrepreneur builds backyard putting greens
Michael Lehrer knows golf enthusiasts go to great lengths and expense to get the 18th hole. For $20,000, he'll bring it to you.
"Golfer's spend $500 on one golf club, thousands on country club memberships and thousands on vacations to golf," said Lehrer, owner of Home Green Advantage, a business that builds private putting greens. "And they spend as much on lessons to improve their game. Why not for their own green, where they can practice whenever they want?"
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