Venkatesh Rao@vgrFascinating. The best golf sand-trap sand is actually the byproduct of quartz mining for silicon wafer manufacturing.latimes.comThe special ingredient of those brilliant white sand traps at the MastersIt looks like sand from a tropical beach, but the material gleaming from the bunkers at Augusta National actually comes from the mountains of North Carolina.4:48 PM · Nov 11, 20202 Retweets16 Likes