Highfield Golf Course

Canterbury · 18 greens mapped

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A putting green at Highfield 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

18 greens at Highfield have been mapped from the national LiDAR survey — 6,444 m² of putting surface altogether, with a median green of 359 m². The national median is 397 m², so these run 10% smaller than average.

Every green

GreenSizeFallAvg gradeRuns off to the
Hole 12341.60 m5.0%south
Hole 22830.83 m3.9%north
Hole 33890.96 m2.4%south
Hole 43322.66 m4.8%east
Hole 52872.09 m14.2%north
Hole 64951.30 m2.2%south
Hole 74551.09 m4.0%east
Hole 82211.37 m10.2%south-west
Hole 93750.59 m2.0%north-west
Hole 104560.70 m1.2%north-east
Hole 113740.63 m0.3%south-west
Hole 123261.40 m4.6%north-east
Hole 132460.80 m4.0%north-east
Hole 144320.52 m1.4%east
Hole 153100.98 m4.3%east
Hole 163450.49 m1.9%north-east
Hole 174191.24 m4.0%north
Hole 184671.31 m3.4%north

“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 (Canterbury, 2010), 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 2010. More about how this is made.

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