# Making a laser cut and UV printed golf course map with the UV Printed Layered Golf Map preset > a golf course with the fairways and greens cut as raised pieces, a pin printed on each green, and the tees, bunkers and paths UV printed flat The cut-only Golf Course Map has a separate piece for every green, tee and bunker. This version keeps the raised shapes you notice first and prints the rest. Each fairway is cut together with its green, so most holes are a single piece to glue, and the UV printer adds a red dot where the pin is mapped. The tees, sand bunkers and paths print flat on the land sheet around them. Morris Williams is a public course on the east side of Austin with 18 holes, 13 bunkers and a creek running through the course. It is wider than it is tall, so the preset uses a 16:9 frame, and it comes out as 24 raised pieces. The greens are 25 to 40 m across, about 6 to 9 mm on a piece 400 mm wide, so plan on that width or more for the pins to read. About 5% of the printed bunker area ends up under the raised pieces, mostly bunkers that sit inside a fairway. ## What you need ### UV print and laser cut - The Print and cut sheets download from the export dialog - A UV flatbed printer with white ink - Any diode or CO2 laser with print-and-cut alignment, such as LightBurn Print and Cut - Three 3 mm sheets: blue for the backplate, dark green for the land and mid green for the fairways and greens - Wood glue or [3M tape](https://yxecreations.com/collections/3m-tape) ## 1. Start from the preset Open [the UV Printed Layered Golf Map preset](/map-designer?preset=uv-printed-layered-golf-map). It opens on Morris Williams Golf Course in Austin at zoom 14.9 in a 16:9 frame. The [cut-only Golf Course Map](/learn/guides/golf-course-map) raises every part of the course instead. Search for your own course and zoom until the holes fill the frame, and switch the frame to 1:1 if your course is closer to square. Golf shapes only load from zoom 12 upwards. ## 2. Understand the layers The preset stacks five layer groups. From the top down: - **Pins**: a UV print layer with a red `#E63946` dot at each mapped pin. It prints onto the Fairways & greens sheet. - **Fairways & greens**: a cut layer with the fairways and the driving range in mid green `#7DB553` and the greens in pale green `#D2EE9E`. A green that touches its fairway is cut as part of the same piece. The pale green is only on screen, because the whole layer comes from one blank, so paint the greens or print them as described below. - **Course art**: a UV print layer that prints onto the Land sheet. Tees in pale green, sand bunkers in `#F4E8C4`, paths as cream `#EDE6D3` lines and the clubhouse in tan `#D9C4A0` where one is mapped. - **Land**: a dark green `#3E7442` sheet with every lake, pond and water hazard cut out as a hole. - **Backplate**: solid blue `#4D9CC7`, showing through the holes as water. A UV print layer always prints onto the nearest cut layer below it. Keep Pins directly above Fairways & greens and Course art directly above Land, or the art ends up on the wrong sheet. ## 3. Check the pins Pins come from OpenStreetMap, the same as the rest of the course. Morris Williams has a pin on 18 of its 20 mapped greens. Many courses have no pins mapped at all, and then the greens come out plain. You can add them in OpenStreetMap yourself, or paint a dot on each green after gluing. ## 4. Export the print and cut sheets Open the export dialog and download Print and cut sheets. The ZIP has one folder per sheet. The backplate gets a cut file only, while the Land and Fairways & greens folders each have a print file and a matching cut file. Turn on registration targets so each pin lands on its green, and include the white underbase mask so the colours stay bright on dark stock. Print everything at 100% scale. ## UV & Sublimation Printing ### Print, cut and assemble 1. UV print the Land print file onto an uncut dark green blank, with the white underbase first and the colour on top. 2. Move the printed blank to the laser. Line up the cut file with the registration targets, then cut the outline and the lake holes. 3. Print the Fairways & greens print file onto a mid green blank, then cut the pieces with the same alignment so each pin sits inside its green. 4. Cut the backplate from blue stock. 5. Glue the Land sheet onto the backplate. Then glue each fairway piece down, using the printed tees and bunkers around it to find its place. ## Make it yours - Move the map to your home club and pick the frame that fits its shape. - Add Greens to the Pins layer so the greens print pale green on the raised pieces, with the pin on top. - Cut the tees as raised pieces too by adding Tees to the Fairways & greens layer. Morris Williams has over 60 tee boxes, so expect a lot more gluing. - Change the pin colour to white or yellow to match the flags at your course. --- Open the tool: https://www.mylasertools.com/learn/guides/uv-printed-layered-golf-map Read online: https://www.mylasertools.com/learn/guides/uv-printed-layered-golf-map