Confidence in creating great products requires confidence in your supply chain, from test tube to installation.

Sport Group, owner of Laykold, has transformed the sports surface’s industry by creating the only fully integrated global supply chain.

This game-changing capability ensures a level of quality control, customization and innovation never achieved in the industry. We invest in every step of the process and combine the knowledge of our industry-leading manufacturing and installation businesses, including APT, AstroTurf, Melos and Polytan.

By creating the industry’s only fully integrated global supply chain, combined with integrated chemistry (components designed by us, unified for our systems) we deliver unmatched quality control and can enhance tennis, netball and basketball with game-changing innovations like Laykold Masters Gel and Laykold Masters Float.

Force Reduction Revolution

Play more tennis with happy knees

Hard courts have been taking a toll on players for too long, and Laykold’s innovative surfaces are transforming the life and value of the court… and the game itself.

Laykold is transforming tennis court performance with Force Reduction courts; our goal is to reduce player/coach injury and fatigue by providing a surface that encourages and enables more play:

• Laykold Force Reduction hard courts offer 15-21% force reduction

• Over 10 years they retain 95%-98% of their force reduction

• Their energy return (70% for Laykold Masters Gel) means that movement is fast and responsive

• All courts feature Laykold’s US Open-quality topcoats

Play more regularly, Feel fitter and healthier

Laykold’s Force Reduction Revolution gives players the performance, consistency, pace and colour of hard-court tennis, plus the easy-on-your-body benefits usually associated with clay or grass.

Our Force Reduction courts deliver less fatigue and reduce the risk of injury, which means you can play on Monday, and bounce back by Wednesday. And even join in on Saturday’s club day. Pain free!

Why is tennis being played on 35-year-old court technology?

Courts are the most critical component of the player experience - after all a court is 260m2 while the ball is only 6.6cm in diameter, and a Laykold court will last for many years, while the ball might only last a match.

Yet courts have received relatively little in the way of R&D in the last 35 years – it’s time for a transformation.

Laykold’s Force Reduction courts are the step change in tennis court performance that the players, young and old, are demanding. Old cushion-court technology typically begins to harden within two to three years, degrading down to a 0% force reduction approximately five years after installation.

This has given the idea of cushion courts a bad name and the tennis community is understandably skeptical. However, Laykold’s Force Reduction technology is completely different to the old-tech ‘cushion’ surfaces.

Laykold Nu Surf for cracking substrates

Cracking asphalt costs court builders and facilities time & money.

Due to the unpredictability and decreasing quality of asphalt mix in the USA, the chemists at Advanced Polymer Technology (APT) have developed Laykold NuSurf & NuSurf G2. These extremely flexible, high-quality products are specifically designed as filler coats and/or membrane coats for new and existing asphalt pavements.

Laykold NuSurf provides far greater elongation and lower tensile strength making them more compatible with problematic asphalt pavements. This aids in bridging minor movement of the substrate by creating a flexible acrylic membrane. They are competitively priced, high-quality alternatives to acrylic resurfacers, which are only designed as filler coats.

Integrated chemistry = better results

Laykold court systems are so advanced because they are designed with integrated chemistry, which means that all components are designed to work together. Laykold NuSurf therefore is an integrated component for our systems, which is much more preferable than using a third party off-the-shelf alternative.

We recommend getting ahead of the problem and including Laykold NuSurf in your court installations.

(Laykold NuSurf and Nusurf G2 are only available in North America.)

Transform with Creative Spaces

With the biggest color range and a beautiful feel and texture for application and play, Laykold turns courts in to canvasses for artists, designers and architects. We also work with organizations such as Nike, Red Bull, Wilson, Warner Bros. and various sport teams and organizations on creative spaces, for example Laykold was used for the 2019 Australian Open art court.

To compete in a digital world, sport and recreation spaces must be engaging and alluring. Laykold can be used to create everything from an important piece of art, to an exciting urban vibe, or even movie promotion. In our experience, creative spaces significantly enhance usage.

Awards – Laykold is Proven Quality

We are a member of most leading sports administrative organizations and are committed to raising standards industry-wide.

Committed to Sports Standards

Sport Group and APT (the manufacturer of Laykold) are members of most leading sports administrative organizations.

We believe in supporting sports’ governing bodies and helping them innovate, raise standards and seek greener solutions.

Partnerships to help grow sport

Sport Group, the owner of Laykold, is committed to improving sport around the world

The world is better with sport in it, an we believe that better facilities help sports grow and meet the needs of the modern world. Sport Group connects with sport around the world in countless ways, including as an active member in the quality programs run by FIFA, World Athletics, World Rugby and the International Hockey Federation (FIH).

For tennis, Laykold is a member of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) Foundation. The Foundation is a forum for consultation and collaboration with companies involved in the manufacture or distribution of tennis products and services.

Laykold court surfaces are certified as part of the ITF Court Pace ratings classification.

We also like to partner with consumer sport brands as they make sport more exciting and accessible. These brands produce the equipment which is used on our courts; this means there is an important relationship. View our special projects with Nike and Wilson.

US Soccer Foundation – soccer courts

The US Soccer Foundation believes that every child should have a safe place to play soccer right in their neighborhood. The Foundation transforms underutilized areas, such as vacant lots and empty schoolyards, into state-of-the-art courts.

Laykold works extensively with the Foundation, we have installed many colorful, hard-court surfaces which are perfect for soccer and give kids a safer place to play. Our installer network is proud of this work, which makes a huge difference to communities around the US.