A backyard putting green from Green Scene is synthetic turf shaped into a custom green, with cups, a flag and a fringe, built into a part of the yard you’d otherwise be mowing. Green Scene designs and installs them for backyards around Franklin, Brentwood and Spring Hill and elsewhere in Williamson County, often in the same project as a patio, a fire pit or a pergola.
It suits a golfer who wants to work on the short game without driving to a course, and a household that wants a corner of the yard that looks the same in August as it did in April. Getting one takes a site visit, a shape that fits the space, and a written price.
Why put a putting green in the backyard?
Because putting is the part of golf you can practice in spare minutes. A green outside the back door turns those minutes into a habit: a few putts while the grill heats up, a game with the kids before dinner. Jose Garcia, who quotes and designs every Green Scene project himself, is an avid golfer away from work, so the person drawing your green knows what you’ll use it for.
The other reason is the lawn it replaces. Real grass in Middle Tennessee comes with rules: tall fescue cut at 3 inches, zoysia kept between 1 and 2, and never more than a third of a bermuda blade taken off at once. An artificial green asks for none of that. In Green Scene’s words, the only ground crew it needs is a leaf blower.
What goes into a custom backyard green?
Each one is drawn to the yard rather than ordered as a kit, and built with construction techniques the company has already proven on earlier greens. The decisions that shape it:
- The size and outline, fitted between the house, the patio and the beds
- How many cups, and where the flags stand
- The edge and the way in: river rock, stepping stones, or the patio itself
- What sits beside it, since a green usually ends up near a fire pit, a grill or seating
- Lighting, if you’d like to putt after dark
Bring a sketch if you have one. If you don’t, Green Scene’s design team will draw the green into a plan with the rest of the backyard, so it doesn’t look like an afterthought dropped onto the lawn.
Can a putting green share the yard with a patio and fire pit?
It usually does. The green at the top of this page fills a side yard a few steps from a stone fire pit and a pergola sheltering the grill, with flat stepping stones running past it to the back. Green Scene built the same pairing at a larger scale in Westhaven, in Franklin, where the green shares one backyard with an outdoor kitchen, a fire pit and a pergola, and the lights make all of it usable after dinner. That yard has its own write-up under patios and pergolas.
Planning the pieces together saves digging twice. Wiring for lights, a gas line to a fire pit and the base under a patio all go in before the finished surfaces, so if a green is on your list for some later year, say so when the patio is drawn. The same goes for landscape lighting around it.
How do you look after an artificial green?
Mostly with a leaf blower. There’s no mowing, watering or fertilizing, and the green keeps its color through a dry summer and a cold winter alike. Fall is the busy season, when leaves from nearby trees settle on it and need to come off before they hide the cups.
Green Scene lays full artificial lawns as well, and the artificial turf page covers when synthetic grass makes sense for more of the yard than a practice green.