Strandhill has too many paths.
This is partly as a product of 40,000 rounds a year but still, they extend too far down the hole, they’re in the eyeline too often and they are made of poor material. (Note these are paths from green to tee to start of fairway, not full coverage).
We’ve started to reduce in areas where we are pulling the fairway forward and in the process we will re-route many out of the immediate eyeline.
So now we’re getting to the stage of looking at the finished material / surface.
I am torn so looking for opinions. (Note grass is not an option - no irrigation with too many rounds).
What tee to fairway path surface do people like to see on a links course?
Some options: rubber diamond mesh with grass through / hi-spec artificial turf / sandy coloured gravel among others...