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Our Mission is to create fun and unique Backyard Golf Environments and Pristine Lawnscapes using unmatched products, workmanship and passion.

Precision Greens has been the benchmark for Synthetic Grass and Putting Greens in British Columbia for over a decade. With well over 300 projects in every corner of the Province we have established a reputation for excellence amongst home owners, landscapers, developers and architects.

Precision Greens focuses on two distinct areas of expertise. The first division being Synthetic Putting Greens in which was the original brainchild of Precision Greens Inc. Our passion for golf was and is the driving force behind our putting green division. It allows us to express our creative potential while doing something we thoroughly enjoy. The second division is Synthetic Landscape Grass. Brought on by many environmental factors, Precision Greens has recognized the variety of uses for Artificial Grass. This knowledge coupled with researching and developing the worlds most realistic and high performing grasses, Precision Greens have welcomed a new division of work that they can take equal pride in.

Precision Greens is a local and independent company. Not being tied to a franchise or national head office allows us to be competitive from a pricing standpoint and to research new and exciting technologies from all over North America and the World, freedoms that other companies may not enjoy.

It is our goal to not go beyond our means but to stay focused on each individual project in which we are involved. When you decide to do work with Precision Greens you have the promise of our full attention and enthusiasm as our happiness depends on your happiness.

Sincerely,

 

Scott and Shaun
Managing Partners
Precision Greens Inc.

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  • Doing the work. Rewarding but not easy.

    Doing the Work There is no mind calming substitute to being outside and working hard. To this day the original owners of Precision Greens, Shaun and Scott, cannot seem to pry themselves away from the job site. Upon many recommendations to delegate some of the labor work out to younger, more fit personell, we are slow to follow this advice.

    Perhaps we are scared to leave the work to others as we don’t know how they’ll do? Maybe we are afraid of becoming complacent behind an office desk? What I think it is more than anything is that it feels good. Doing the work is meditative to some degree. The worries in your business and personal life take a back seat to getting this wheelbarrow full of gravel up your driveway and into your backyard.

    As the grunts from getting in and out of the truck get louder with each passing year, the more one thinks that the benefits of having some “hired strength” would pay dividends. I believe I’m writing this blog because the time is near and its our way of letting go of the fun we have had getting dirty. The surfacing and detail work will always be ours, as owners, to perform because it is our detailed workmanship that has set us well apart from the competitors that have come and gone from the Greater Vancouver Synthetic Turf Arena. The wheelbarrows however can be handed over.

    So please take it easy on us if you see Shaun or myself telling the young guns where to dump the wheelbarrows as opposed to seeing us ‘old timers’ struggling to do the hard labor ourselves. 10 years of this stuff wears on a guy. Rest assured, the passion has not and will not stop as “doing the work” is still the best part of owning this business.  

  • In the beginning there was golf...sort of.

    If you have a passion for golf then odds are you’ve altered your yard, or the yard of someone close to you, to allow for a modified version of the great game. For me it started nice and easy, the small tree in the front yard was the first hole, the electric box on the other side of the front yard was the second hole, the sprinkler that layed in the middle of the backyard was the third hole, play these three holes 6 times and you have yourself 18 challenging holes. Equiped with a pitching wedge and a few wiffle balls it wasn’t long before the challenging “sprinkler hole” soon turned into a two shot hole…just close the face and rip a draw around the chimney and tap it in for a deuce, no problem.

    While using my imagination was fun it would soon lead to trouble. Whiffle balls were soon outdated and the real deal Pinnacles were brought into play, still with a PW in hand I realized that all of my neighbors had trees and sprinklers too. Before I knew it I had 54 of the most challenging holes in the entire South Surrey area. I couldn’t imagine any other course designer in all of Greater Vancouver coming up with a better layout. My course was soon shut down due to some sort of red tape that I call parental zoning restrictions. It seems adults dislike dents in their cars or as I liked to call them, metal hazards (no penalty, free drop). I might have gotten away with it had I not tried to teach myself the flop shot. So I returned to Backyard Golf and Country Club. I took it to the next level when I removed Moms weed whacker from the shed and carefully shortened the grass on the west side of the backyard to create my very first, fully functional, putting and chipping green. It turned out splendidly, I even found a small coffee tin and dug it into the ground, with a hole in the bottom I jammed a broom handle through and tied an old rag from Moms shed to the top. Voila! It didn’t roll very fast….or very true, nor did it look real sharp, in fact it was not a good golf green, but it did make one helluva chipping green. That was until a day or two later when the grass was burnt to a crisp from me weed whacking the life out of it.

    As adults, my best friend Shaun and I discovered that somewhere on our continent people were having synthetic turf golf greens installed in their backyards. Could it be? Are there others like us that love golf so fiercely that they would convert a portion of their valued home and garden into a golf play space?! A maintenance-free, perfectly functional version of what I desired to have as a wee child?! We researched the idea, the products, the building techniques and crafted our very first backyard, artificial turf golf green in the summer of 2000 at Mom and Dad Golf Club. It was great. That summer and the years that followed there were endless contests’, course records, night golf, bets won and lost and innumerable victories over the Tiger Woods. My imagination still plays a vital role in my personal golf entertainment.

    Since that time, Shaun and I are still doing what we love. A decade later we have over 300 synthetic golf greens installed all over British Columbia. Mostly very customized residential greens but our product is now seen on roof tops, patios, offices, resorts, seniors living complexes, golf courses, driving ranges and common areas in townhouses. We’ve even done about a half-dozen front yards.

    Running a business is sometimes not easy but when we are in a backyard on a sunny day having nowhere else to be, there is no better feeling than using our creative potential to mindfully create the breaks of the green, craft its shape, think strategically about pin placements and give a golf green a life that compliments the home it belongs to. We feel happy and honored when the phone rings for us to build another one.