The GT off piste trails are amazing fun, best in the whole place imho. Thunderstruck is getting some work done to it hopefully to improve the drainage by the looks of it...one of my favourite trails for a "not quite golfie" experience.
Master, to me suggests it is 1 large plan that is going to last for a very very long time, none of what seems to have happened or is happening seems to be long term stuff…
Disclaimer - not been to GT for years although I'd love to go back there.
Master plan is (supposed to be) a long-term look and they can take years to come to fruition but they are also incredibly vulnerable to funding cuts and changes in management / political will. Long-term funding is near non-existent now in lots of public sector, it's all bidding for scraps of funding pots that then have to be used immediately with no clear indication that you'll get more so, while you can have the best Master Plan in the world, it'll fall to bits if - 2 years into it - whichever body is providing the funding suddenly ceases to exist or redirects funds elsewhere or has its own funding cut off.
I've no idea what that situation is at GT in terms of funding but that summary ^^ is happening in public sector all over the country.
You really need a 4yr funding cycle with absolutely committed funds split between capital (new projects so things like new trails, new infrastructure) and revenue (which is for maintenance of existing infrastructure. Even that can be screwed by one big storm or bad winter which wrecks a new bit of trail that's just had £100,000 spent on it and you need to go back and spend another £70,000 making it good again; that's £70k of your revenue funding that was earmarked for elsewhere that now no longer exists.
