New Remote Luxury Courses Have What Golfers Crave: Perfect Sand

When most people think of golf, their mind goes immediately to grass. If they picture sand at all, they think of the place they don’t want their shot to land.

But to a small subset of wealthy golfers and course designers, sand is everything. Courses built on sandy soil tend to require less landscaping, which makes them feel more natural, less engineered. This soil allows for faster drainage on rainy days and firm, bouncy turf year-round. Combining this turf with gentle slopes in the fairways can lead to fortuitous bounces of the ball — or penalizing breaks — creating an ...