River Sand, Inc. provides divot sand in white, tan, brown, and green colors. The type of blend, preference, and price can determine the best color sand for your divot repair.
River Sand, Inc. provides divot sand in white, tan, brown, and green colors. The type of blend, preference, and price can determine the best color sand for your divot repair.
Fill divots with the sand provided up to the base of the existing soil, not to the top of the grass. Be sure to smooth and compact it slightly with a step from a shoe, and have fun playing.
Divots are holes creating from the golf club removing a portion of the turf. Sand placed back in the divot levels the surface back so the turf can grow back into place. If it is not filled the hole will remain as the turf grows back but it may cause inconsistent areas of play and unhealthy turf from uneven cuts with the mower. So, sand helps repair the turf for better play and better turf health.
Divot Sand or Divot Mix is a type of material golf courses leave on golf carts for golfers to fill back in the holes they make in the turf. A lot of times the sand used is the same type of sand that is used to topdress a course. However, many courses prefer a green or off-white colored sand to help disguise the many chunks of turf missing before they the turf recovers. Divot Mix can also be a blend of sand with peat, fertilizer, or grass seed to help the turf recover more quickly.
It’s a sand or sand blend designed to fill the divots creating by golfers when the club removes a portion of the turf beneath the ball. These holes often occur on the tee box or at certain areas within the fairway. Divot Sand is a way that the holes can be repaired quickly by the golfer to level the hole back up and provide a way for the turf to grow back over rapidly. Divot sand, also called divot mix, can be just sand or it can be blended with grass seed, fertilizer, peat or compost. The sand can also be dyed green or selected as a natural tan color to blend in the rootzone better than white sand. Divot mix is like your favorite recipe, and can be blended based on each golf courses needs and preferences.
The purpose of divot sand seems obvious. It’s a certain type of sand that’s used to repair those chunks of grass/green that are removed by the swing of a golf club. This is an ever present fact of golf course maintenance; often enough to call for a special type of sand used to repair it. But divot sand isn’t just regular sand, it’s a specifically formulated sand to improve future repair of divots.
Typically, divot sand is mixed with grass seed and sometimes dyed green or left natural sand color. The reason golf courses use sand is because the divot can be repaired quickly and smoothed in a way to facilitate consistent ball speed. It’s dyed green primarily for aesthetic reasons. No one wants to play golf on a course that looks like one big bunker. Regardless of color, divot sand creates a uniform look that evens out the course and maintains its proper greenness and playability.
Obviously just sand by itself cannot hold a course together forever and eventually the grass will need to grow back. The seed mixed in with the divot sand allows for a faster regrowth of the grass that has been chucked out of the ground. The sand acts as a medium that retains the proper amount of nutrients and water to foster growth.
Divot sand that combines both the proper sand and grass seed is ideal to repair divots created on a golf course. They need to be dealt with promptly and using the correct materials is essential to ensure proper course maintenance. The happiness of your golfers matters most, followed by the course’s bottom line. Both of these can be satisfied by using the proper materials to effectively preserve a great looking and great playing golf course.At River Sand Inc we carry a variety of USGA approved topdressing, divot and bunker sand to help properly maintain your golf course.