[Adam_F_Collins]

I may have asked this question before, but can sand be coloured to match the surrounding natural earth?

I know that many people love the soft, flour-like white silica sand (I think that's what it's called) - and it can look nice on golf courses that are very manicured, garden-like and which make no real attempt to look 'natural'.

However, I was looking at the Black Mesa pics and I find the screaming white sand on courses like this to be just plain UGLY. Now I realize that ugly is a subjective term - and to me, when a golf course design seems to have been meant to blend into the land and appear more natural, and then they elect to use blaring white sand in the bunkers - it's like... two steps forward and three steps back.

So can sand be artificially coloured? Could the same sand with the same, cushy, pleasing, soft-and-cuddly-modern-'hazard' playing characteristics be made to appear as if it were a natural part of the landscape?

How much extra would it cost?

(And while we're at it - maybe it could be artificially FLAVOURED as well... so when it flyies into your mouth it tastes like mocha or cinnamon...)

[Jim Thompson]

Adam,

There is a business just down the street from our course that does just that.  They create food grade fillers from inert earth materials by popping sand like pocorn.  Very angular and would be excellent for bunkers.  Yes the can color it.  Maybe the Warren Course will want golden sand to match the Dome.

Cheers!

JT

[David Sneddon]

Adam,
There is a business just down the street from our course that does just that.  They create food grade fillers from inert earth materials by popping sand like pocorn.  Very angular and would be excellent for bunkers.  Yes the can color it.  Maybe the Warren Course will want golden sand to match the Dome.

Cheers!
JT

Jim, could you IM me the name of the company and if they have a website, etc, please.
Thanks

[Bob_Huntley]

Adam Foster Collins,

I have made mention of this before, but I played at Indian Wells in the Hope sometime in the late sixties or early seventies, when the bunkers were filled with red, white and blue sand on various holes. It looked bizarre, but what could one expect from the Hope?

Bob

[Jerry Kluger]

I recently played Lake Winnipesaukee CC in New Hampshire and they had silica sand bunkers but they weren't blinding white rather they almost had a grey tint to them.  They looked and played great and they were very proud that they were hand raked on a daily basis - you should play it if you're in the area.

[Mike Nuzzo]

However, I was looking at the Black Mesa pics and I find the screaming white sand on courses like this to be just plain UGLY. Now I realize that ugly is a subjective term - and to me, when a golf course design seems to have been meant to blend into the land and appear more natural, and then they elect to use blaring white sand in the bunkers - it's like... two steps forward and three steps back.

Whooppps...
Have you been there?
How much would it have cost to colored all the sand?

Oh and by the way...

It's all native sand from on site.

If you are referring to the last photo, the one with the very blue sky posted by clayman, that is from an overly rich film for marketing purposes - and those aren't overly white either.

The sand in Daryn's pictures looks tan as does the sand in person.

cheers

[Adam_F_Collins]

However, I was looking at the Black Mesa pics and I find the screaming white sand on courses like this to be just plain UGLY. Now I realize that ugly is a subjective term - and to me, when a golf course design seems to have been meant to blend into the land and appear more natural, and then they elect to use blaring white sand in the bunkers - it's like... two steps forward and three steps back.

Whooppps...
Have you been there?
How much would it have cost to colored all the sand?

Oh and by the way...

It's all native sand from on site.

If you are referring to the last photo, the one with the very blue sky posted by clayman, that is from an overly rich film for marketing purposes - and those aren't overly white either.

The sand in Daryn's pictures looks tan as does the sand in person.

cheers

Sorry, Mike. Bad example - the photo just made me think of it.

[Dan Herrmann]

I have a 1969 copy of the Golf Digest annual, and their look into the future says that pink, green, blue, and yellow sand will be the trend in "the future".

Thank goodness they were wrong on that one!

[mike_beene]

Reminds me of that Boise State football field.

[Nate Golomb]

Well I know it's not great work but I wanted to quickly see what some of our most well known holes would look like with different colored sand...so I threw a little color into some of the bunkers quickly and here are the results...Just food for thought...











~The New Guy (Nate)

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