Cape Kidnappers Golf Course
Hawke's Bay · 19 greens mapped
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The greens here
19 greens at Cape Kidnappers have been mapped from the national LiDAR survey — 11,648 m² of putting surface altogether, with a median green of 627 m². That puts them in the largest tenth of greens in the country — 58% above the national median of 397 m².
- Steepest green: hole 8, averaging 4.7% and falling north-east.
- Flattest green: green a, at 0.4%.
- Most internal fall: hole 8, 2.04 m between its low and high point.
- Largest green: hole 6, 768 m².
Every green
| Green | Size | Fall | Avg grade | Runs off to the |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hole 1 | 651 m² | 0.93 m | 2.6% | east |
| Hole 2 | 533 m² | 1.06 m | 4.1% | north-west |
| Hole 3 | 595 m² | 1.01 m | 3.0% | west |
| Hole 4 | 624 m² | 1.07 m | 4.3% | south-east |
| Hole 5 | 680 m² | 0.91 m | 2.9% | south-east |
| Hole 6 | 768 m² | 1.04 m | 3.8% | west |
| Hole 7 | 673 m² | 1.32 m | 2.8% | north-west |
| Hole 8 | 672 m² | 2.04 m | 4.7% | north-east |
| Hole 9 | 706 m² | 1.56 m | 4.2% | west |
| Hole 10 | 637 m² | 1.01 m | 2.8% | west |
| Hole 11 | 627 m² | 1.29 m | 4.0% | north |
| Hole 12 | 761 m² | 0.63 m | 1.3% | north-west |
| Hole 13 | 544 m² | 0.85 m | 1.6% | north-west |
| Hole 14 | 436 m² | 1.39 m | 4.1% | north |
| Hole 15 | 561 m² | 0.46 m | 1.0% | north-east |
| Hole 16 | 463 m² | 1.18 m | 4.6% | north |
| Hole 17 | 505 m² | 0.93 m | 3.4% | north-east |
| Hole 18 | 659 m² | 1.91 m | 3.6% | north |
| Green A | 554 m² | 0.52 m | 0.4% | west |
“Fall” is the height difference between the lowest and highest point of the putting surface. “Avg grade” is the best-fit plane across it — a green can average 2% and still have a shelf on it, which is what the app shows and a table cannot.
Where these numbers come from
Heights come from Land Information New Zealand’s 1 m LiDAR elevation survey (Hawkes Bay, 2023), published openly under CC BY 4.0. Green outlines and hole numbers come from OpenStreetMap under the Open Database Licence. Slope uncertainty on this course works out at ±0.15%.
Slope is measured. Break is modelled — the read in the app is a physics simulation of a ball rolling over the measured surface, and it knows nothing about grain or moisture. The survey predates any green rebuilt since 2023. More about how this is made.