Anyone reccomend a type of grass to plant for wooded fairways that will sprout and be playable on in a few months time?
My idea was to have a clear defined pathway down the middle of the fairway and seed and cover the sides. This should limit the foot traffic over the new grass at least a little bit.
I'm looking for something hardy that will handle high foot travel in low sunlight.

Recommend checking with a landscape firm or college nearby that has expertise in this area. If you get the right blend, it can work well. We had a specialist analyze the soil at Highbridge and put together a blend that grows like I've never seen in wooded fairways.

Not much, but it's a start:

http://www.lawngrasses.com/info/graphs.html#Shade

Notice the most tolerant of shade is also the most expensive :mad:

Fine Fescues are the best for shaded areas. Although growing grass in shaded areas with high traffic is never easy.

Go to a wooded, shaded area similar to your fairway.
Take a sample of the grass that naturally grows there to your USDA County Extension Agent and find out what kind it is.
Find a native seed company in your area and buy some.
Sow that heavily throughout your fairway area.
It will be hardy and vigorous and will look right.

All of the above advice is cool, my own for grass choice being a fine blade, cool season hard fescue blend such as used for golf course long rough in many areas where shade is a problem. However, be aware that no matter what you put down unless you are committed to a life time of leaf blowing or raking nothing is going to last past a couple of seasons. The leaves smother the grass pretty quickly. I live in the Brushy Mountains of western NC in the middle of dense hardwoods. When we built our house ten years ago I sowed a blend of creeping red and valda hard fescue that have thrived through drought and considerable foot traffic. Both of these varieties stay at a little over ankle height without mowing. I just knock the seed heads off once a year in late spring/early summer with a weed eater and that's it. But I have steadily decreased the amount of these grasses I tend because it's just to big a pain in the arsse to continuously blow leaves. Good luck. :cool: