Carterton Golf Course

Wellington · 19 greens mapped

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A putting green at Carterton Golf Course, painted with its measured slope — green where it is flat, red where it falls away, with arrows showing which way a ball rolls.

The greens here

19 greens at Carterton have been mapped from the national LiDAR survey — 5,418 m² of putting surface altogether, with a median green of 280 m². The national median is 397 m², so these run 29% smaller than average.

Every green

GreenSizeFallAvg gradeRuns off to the
Hole 14500.40 m1.1%north
Hole 23400.70 m2.7%south-west
Hole 32640.37 m1.0%north-west
Hole 42660.30 m0.6%east
Hole 52830.44 m1.4%south
Hole 62400.49 m1.5%north
Hole 72000.62 m3.0%south-west
Hole 82310.38 m1.9%south
Hole 92230.62 m2.7%south-west
Hole 102800.29 m0.5%west
Hole 113050.68 m2.9%south-east
Hole 121990.27 m0.8%south
Hole 133620.70 m2.1%south-east
Hole 143500.51 m2.1%south-west
Hole 152260.45 m1.7%south-west
Hole 163270.38 m0.8%south-west
Hole 173540.85 m3.4%north-east
Hole 183640.94 m3.8%south
Green A1550.32 m1.9%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 (Wellington, 2013-2014), 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 2014. More about how this is made.

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