This may sound backwards, but I think I’d use it in places where the wear and tear were the least, to make it last longer and make those areas look better with less maintenance. FI, the foul areas from 1st base to the OF fence.
I’d never use it in really high traffic areas such as Homerun04 noted. Sorry HR4, its not that I think it wouldn’t look really good for a while, but unless he’s talking about some kind of turf I don’t know anything about, turf just doesn’t hold up real well under high traffic. Its OK for a whole field because no particular spot on a whole field gets used a great deal, but high traffic areas need to be handled with some care, or at least that’s what I’ve been told by field maint people as well as vendors.
Also, if its put down in an area like the foul areas from 1st and 3rd base, past the dugouts and around home plate, it better be put down with a lot of care to handle batting cages and the like being hauled all over it. Also, drainage becomes an issue with artificial turf. Unlike natural turf that will use some water and allow a lot more to percolate naturally into the soil, very often artificial turf has to have an even more comprehensive drainage system in place.
If there’s good drainage, AT can be a Godsend. But if there isn’t, the wet spots will develop mold and other things that really don’t smell very good. If it were me, the most I’d do is the very small areas, then keep an ample supply in reserve to replace it when it get ratty lookin’, which it will.
Here’s a site that has a lot of info on the subject.
http://www.webwaddle.com/nosyntheticturf.htmlThis was something I’d never heard of before.
http://www.athleticturf.net/athleticturf/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=172540
