--- title: "Artificial Turf in World Golf Village, FL | TIMELESS Grass & Greens" description: "A putting green at your World Golf Village home. Practice a few steps from the lanai, with a layout for the putts you want." url: https://www.timelessgrass.com/northeast-florida/world-golf-village-fl/ --- World Golf Village, FL # Artificial turf in World Golf Village, FL, laid out for your short game. Between rounds at King & Bear or Slammer & Squire, practice on a green steps from your lanai. We start with a free visit and a written estimate. - Choose useful putts and a chipping fringe - Keep trees, pond edges and walking access - Bring the right community requirements [Request a free estimate](https://www.timelessgrass.com/estimate/) [Call 303-349-2368](tel:3033492368) - Layout approved before installation - American-made turf - Free estimates, no pressure The short answer ## What should I decide before adding a World Golf Village putting green? The shots you want to repeat, then what your board allows. Favor a putting line close to the house, and get your architectural board's answer on the plan in writing before the layout is final. Planning a turf installation? Get a layout, turf options and a written quote for your space. [Request a free estimate](https://www.timelessgrass.com/estimate/) [Call 303-349-2368](tel:3033492368) We’ll call to arrange a free site visit. Before you install in World Golf Village ## What to know in World Golf Village. The rules in short. We measure and check the ground at a free visit, then draw a layout that fits. [Request a free estimate](https://www.timelessgrass.com/estimate/) [Call 303-349-2368](tel:3033492368) - ### Practice between rounds A clear putting line close to the house can matter more than a large surface across the yard. Leave walking room, and keep pet use separate if it needs different care. See the rule on practice between rounds Make the green convenient to use. A clear putting line close to the house can matter more than a large surface across the yard. Discuss contours, cups and fringe after choosing the shots you want to repeat. Leave walking room and keep pet use separate if it needs a different care routine. Discuss the intended roll and contours with the turf options so the surface serves your regular putting practice. - ### Different communities and property types King & Bear, Murabella, Samara Lakes and Cascades don't share one turf policy, so get your own community's current rules, including any CDD conditions. Bring pond, drainage and tree details before sizing the green. See the rule on different communities and property types Use the documents for your own lot. King & Bear, Murabella, Samara Lakes and Cascades should not be treated as one association with a shared turf policy. Obtain the current property and architectural-review instructions, including any relevant CDD conditions. Bring pond, drainage and tree information before sizing the green. Required shoreline separation, canopy conditions and maintenance access still need to be considered on a golf-facing property. Keep any unresolved drainage work clear in the written estimate. - ### The game stayed On a golf-frontage lot, plan the green around cart traffic, overspray and the wear your own short game puts around the cups. See the rule on the game stayed The museum moved out. The golf didn't. The World Golf Hall of Fame opened here in May 1998 and closed its World Golf Village campus in 2023, moving back to Pinehurst, North Carolina. The IMAX theater closed in 2024 and Murray Brothers Caddyshack on 27 June 2026, and as of September 2025 the county was weighing proposals for the empty Hall of Fame site ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Golf_Village)). The courses stayed. King & Bear is the only course Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer designed together, with Bobby Weed: par 72 over 7,279 yards, fully restored in a five-month project. Slammer & Squire, by Bobby Weed with Sam Snead and Gene Sarazen, plays par 72 over 6,939 yards ([St. Johns Magazine](https://www.stjohnsmag.com/golf-courses.html)). With two championship courses at the center of the community, the practice that counts happens between rounds. A backyard green with real break, a fringe and a few cups puts it steps from the lanai. On a golf-frontage lot, plan the green around the cart traffic, the overspray and the wear your own short game puts around the cups. - ### Approvals Send your architectural board a turf plan and get its answer in writing. The Meadows bars non-plant lawn substitutes, so ask whether that covers turf; on a fairway lot, the board decides. See the rule on approvals A CDD, an HOA and a board for nearly every yard. Almost every home in World Golf Village sits inside a community development district and an HOA. Turnbull Creek CDD, set up in 2004, covers Murabella, with its amenity center on Positano Avenue ([Turnbull Creek CDD](https://turnbullcreekcdd.com/)). Plan on sending your architectural board a plan for any turf, and get its answer in writing. One village publishes its rulebook, and it shows what a board here actually writes down. The Meadows at World Golf Village bars "painted concrete and plastic plants" and adds that "non-plant materials may not be used as a substitute for a lawn" (rule 207.8, October 2025). Rule 207.14 then fixes the ground under any new surface: the grading through the community "is designed to promote proper drainage and may not be changed" ([The Meadows rules](https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/45ad12ad-696f-4ee1-a526-58a4f41d76ca/downloads/621cbd11-e1ee-45b3-834b-90c819d44dd9/Rules%20and%20Regulations%20-%202025%20October%20-%20Meadows.pdf)). Neither line names synthetic turf, so ask your own committee in writing whether it reads turf as a lawn substitute, and plan the green inside the grade the plat already set. On a fairway lot, Florida law gives you less cover than you might think. An HOA can't restrict turf that isn't visible from the frontage, the neighbors, a common area or a community golf course ([Fla. Stat. 720.3045](https://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0700-0799/0720/Sections/0720.3045.html)), and a green that a King & Bear or Slammer & Squire fairway looks onto fails that last test. The board decides. A 2026 change matters too: from 1 July, a community development district enforcing deed restrictions sits outside the state law that bars local turf bans ([SB 1180](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1180/Analyses/2026s01180.fp.PDF)). And Florida's law protecting Florida-Friendly landscaping never mentions artificial turf, so it won't override a board either ([Fla. Stat. 373.185](https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2025/0373.185)); [our HOA guide](https://www.timelessgrass.com/guides/florida-friendly-landscaping-and-hoas/) explains both. - ### The ground Back yards here often end at a pond or swale, with a low corner that stays wet after storms and dry in drought. The free visit checks your slope and ground. See the rule on the ground A hardpan under the sand, and a pond out back. World Golf Village sits on flatwoods sand of the Myakka type: dark gray sand on top, gray sand down to roughly 26 inches, and below that an organic-stained hardpan reaching about 60 inches, with the water table within 10 inches of the surface for one to five months a year. Across St. Johns County, USDA soil survey data rates 78.5% of mapped acres poorly or very poorly drained ([USDA NRCS](https://sdmdataaccess.nrcs.usda.gov/)). Ponds, wet preserves and golf drainage swales run through the plats, so a lot of back yards end at water. The usual result is a rear corner that stays soggy after a storm and bakes bare in a drought. On the free visit we look at the slope and the ground, and we build the base to move that water through and away. Shade depends on the street. The older lots around the resort core and King & Bear keep mature live oaks and pines, while Murabella and the newer sections are open to the sun. Turf works in both, and [shade keeps it cooler](https://www.timelessgrass.com/blog/how-hot-does-artificial-turf-get/) in summer. [Request a free estimate](https://www.timelessgrass.com/estimate/) [Call 303-349-2368](tel:3033492368) What we install in World Golf Village ## Choose your turf project. Compare a practice green, lawn or pet area within the usable part of your property. - [### Putting greens Practice your putting right outside your back door. See putting greens](https://www.timelessgrass.com/northeast-florida/putting-greens/) - [### Artificial lawns Spend less time mowing, with an artificial lawn planned around your yard and its use. See artificial lawns](https://www.timelessgrass.com/northeast-florida/residential-turf/) - [### Pet turf A dog run or pet lawn planned around drainage, secure edges and regular cleaning. See pet turf](https://www.timelessgrass.com/northeast-florida/pet-turf/) FAQ ## Turf questions in World Golf Village. ### Who installs artificial turf in World Golf Village, FL? We install backyard putting greens, artificial turf and pet turf in World Golf Village, FL. King & Bear and Slammer & Squire are at the heart of the community, and on a lot the course can see, your HOA's architectural board decides. World Golf Village isn't on reclaimed water, so lawns here get one potable watering day a week under the 2026 order. Call 303-349-2368 for a free estimate. ### Does the county limit how much of my lot I can cover? The county's residential districts allow up to 70% impervious surface and require at least a 10-foot rear yard, though most of World Golf Village runs on its own planned-development plats ([LDC Article VI](https://www.sjcfl.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/article-vi.pdf)). The code has no turf provision; your plat and your board are the limits to check. ### Can an amenity center count turf toward its required landscaping? Not toward what the county requires. Its code bars artificial plants from satisfying any required landscaping on development that needs a permit, and it exempts golf courses and sports fields from its Florida-Friendly planting rules ([LDC Article VI](https://www.sjcfl.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/article-vi.pdf)). A back yard is outside that rule. ### Once the order lifts, how long can new plantings be watered in? Under the normal rules, new landscaping may be watered daily for its first 30 days, then every other day for 30 more ([St. Johns County](https://www.sjcfl.us/protect-our-water/)). Under Phase III, new sod and new plantings aren't allowed at all. ### How long does architectural approval take in World Golf Village? Each village sets its own clock, so ask yours for the answer in writing. The Meadows at World Golf Village gives its committee twenty business days from a complete application, lets it call for a sample or a mock-up first, and allows an appeal within fifteen business days of a denial; silence "does not constitute an approval or rejection" ([Architectural Guidelines, June 2025](https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/45ad12ad-696f-4ee1-a526-58a4f41d76ca/downloads/ab69a89b-fb00-43f1-9ba8-a4aa3b49b907/Architectural%20Guidelines%20-%202025%20June%20-%20Meadows.pdf)). A request reaches the next meeting only if it arrives at least 48 hours ahead ([The Meadows HOA](https://themeadowswgv.com/rules-regulations)). Committee approval is separate from any county permit. ### My community documents never mention artificial turf. What do I ask? That gap is normal here. The Meadows' landscape section talks about which grass varieties may replace a lawn, not about synthetic turf, while its declaration, recorded in St. Johns County Official Records book 1657, page 1267 in 2001, has always required approval for any "landscaping or landscaping device or object" ([recorded declaration](https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/45ad12ad-696f-4ee1-a526-58a4f41d76ca/downloads/_The%20Meadows%20-%20Covenants%2C%20Amendments%20and%20HOA%20I.pdf)). So put two questions to your committee: does it treat synthetic turf as a lawn substitute, and what does it want to see, a plot plan, the spec sheet or a physical sample. Get the answer in writing before the layout is final. Nearby areas we cover - [Mill Creek, FL](https://www.timelessgrass.com/northeast-florida/mill-creek-fl/) - [St. Johns, FL](https://www.timelessgrass.com/northeast-florida/st-johns-fl/) - [Nocatee, FL](https://www.timelessgrass.com/northeast-florida/nocatee-fl/) - [St. Augustine, FL](https://www.timelessgrass.com/northeast-florida/st-augustine-fl/) - [Everywhere we work in Northeast Florida](https://www.timelessgrass.com/northeast-florida/) Useful links - [The Meadows at World Golf Village HOA: community documents](https://themeadowswgv.com/download) Free estimate ## Your free estimate in World Golf Village. Tell us about your project and we’ll call to arrange a free visit. [Or call 303-349-2368](tel:3033492368) Your free estimate includes - A visit to measure your space - A custom layout, drawn for your space - Turf options, side by side - A written price, with no pressure to sign [Request a free estimate](https://www.timelessgrass.com/estimate/) Five short steps. We’ll call to arrange your visit.