Setting a Higher Standard in Golf Sand
BESTSAND™
Sand serves many essential roles in establishing and maintaining golf course surfaces and can have a significant impact on playability, ease of maintenance and appearance. Therefore, it’s important to choose the best golf sand for your facility. BESTSAND offers a comprehensive range of high-quality sand products tailored for golf courses, including bunker sand, greens construction mixes, topdressing sand and divot mixes. Supported by excellent customer service and a robust logistics network, BESTSAND is your trusted partner for all your golf facility’s sand needs.
BESTSAND™ + Pro/Angle®:
We've Got You Covered from Every Angle
Following Covia’s recent acquisition of R.W. Sidley Co.’s industrial mining division, including the Pro/Angle brand, golf course superintendents and contractors now have an even wider selection of BESTSAND bunker sands to choose from. Our comprehensive product portfolio now includes Pro/Angle 100% angular bunker sand, which allows us to offer a one-stop shopping experience for top-quality golf sand.
Product Highlight
We offer four high-quality bunker sand options to serve the diverse needs of our customers. While the composition of our blends may vary, they are all backed by meticulous quality control, robust logistics support and top-tier customer service.
Choose from our wide variety of topdressing sands to keep greens, fairways and tees healthier, more playable and easier to maintain. Our high-purity silica sand is the perfect fit for frequent light brush-in applications to avoid disrupting play and amending your current root zone for better performance.
Our BESTSAND greens construction mixes put facilities in top playing shape with consistent particle size and infiltration rates. Whether you are constructing a new course or renovating your greens, we can custom blend a mix to meet your specifications. Our custom blending facility yields precise mixes that conform to USGA specifications for superior quality and playability.
We will blend a custom divot mix of sand, topsoil and peat to meet the needs of your playing surface. It’s the ideal fix for divots on tee boxes, fairways and driving ranges. Our sand’s permeability provides an excellent environment for proper seed development; nutrients may be added to mixes for enhanced grow-in.
Sand for Every Bunker, Every Budget
PRO/ANGLE
This 100% angular sand is manufactured only in NE Ohio by crushing pure quartz and offers unmatched durability, quality and playability. The angular grains adhere to the steepest bunker faces, helping to reduce fried egg lies. It is off-white in color and weather-resistant with industry-leading infiltration rates. Day in and day out, you can depend on this top performer to provide predictable, consistent playing conditions while reducing maintenance costs.
BESTSAND SIGNATURE 900
Manufactured by crushing silica stones, This is an angular bunker sand that provides excellent ball support and achieves high penetrometer readings. Its consistent texture ensures excellent playability, while its superior quality and striking white color deliver the look and standard of play your golfers demand year after year. Consistently reliable, this top-tier sand will reduce bunker maintenance while enhancing playing conditions.
BESTSAND SIGNATURE 700
This blend gives you the versatility to maintain the firmness you desire for championship play or for the everyday golfer, ensuring optimal performance with minimal maintenance. No matter the characteristics you specify, you’ll have shot-after-shot consistency with a championship-level look.
BESTSAND SIGNATURE 500
This high-quality bunker sand delivers firm ball support and consistency season after season. An off-white color reduces glare and gives this sand a natural, premium look. Its consistent size, texture and quality ensure long-term playability and quick draining to eliminate puddles and crusting.
ROSS MILLER TALKS BUNKER RENOVATIONS AT THE COUNTRY CLUB OF DETROIT
Customers like the Country Club of Detroit rely on Pro/Angle® sand for a combination of player satisfaction and long-term maintainability. Here's Director of Agronomy Ross Miller talking about his bunker program and why he banks on Pro/Angle to meet his member's expectations.
OAK HILL COUNTRY CLUB - Rochester, NY
Oak Hill Country Club has been using BESTSAND in their bunkers for years, but after a renovation, the club decided to use it in their greens mix as well. Jeff Corcoran, the grounds superintendent, tells us why they chose BESTSAND and the benefits they have experienced.
THE GALLERY CLUB - Tuscon, AZ
The experts at BESTSAND helped the team at The Gallery Golf Club in Tucson, Arizona plan and execute the club’s bunker renovation project. Learn how BESTSAND bunker sand was selected for its excellent firmness, drainage, color and playability.
DES MOINES GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB - West Des Moines, IA
From 2013 to 2016, Director of Grounds Rick Tegtmeier oversaw a complete golf course renovation using PRO/ANGLE Bunker Sand in its bunkers. The renovation maintained the only remaining Pete Dye-designed golf course in Iowa. The club was thrust onto the international stage in 2017 by hosting the Solheim Cup, a three-day match-play competition featuring LPGA pros from Europe against the top pros from the United States.
TPC DEERE RUN - Silvis, IL
TPC Deere Run — the site of the annual John Deere Classic— completed a 2021 bunker renovation project using PRO/ANGLE Bunker Sand. Under the management of Director of Golf Course Maintenance Operations Alex Stuedemann, all bunkers were rebuilt with upgraded sand and liners from Capillary Concrete. Last renovated in 2000, Deere Run elected to use PRO/ANGLE Bunker Sand, as it did for its previous renovation over two decades ago.
DISTRIBUTOR NETWORK
To ensure you receive product reliably and quickly at the most competitive shipping cost, we have developed the industry’s most comprehensive and accessible distribution network. You can rely on our high-performance golf products to keep your customers happy and our experts to find the best solutions for your facility's needs.
GEOLOGY AND GOLF:
WHY OUR SAND IS SPECIAL
During the Ice Age, especially around the Great Lakes, glaciers advanced and retreated. Sediments picked up by the flowing ice were eventually deposited as conglomerates — larger pebbles and rocks bound by a matrix. Covia’s premium golf sands come from our mines in Ohio, where conglomerates of silica quartz sand and gravel were formed millions of years ago. Today, these high-purity deposits are drilled, blasted and then excavated to become the starting ingredient of our BESTSAND products.
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