Karori Golf Club

Wellington · 19 greens mapped

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A putting green at Karori Golf Club, 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 Karori have been mapped from the national LiDAR survey — 8,141 m² of putting surface altogether, with a median green of 406 m². That is within a few percent of the national median of 397 m² — typical for New Zealand.

Every green

GreenSizeFallAvg gradeRuns off to the
Hole 15480.56 m0.9%south-east
Hole 24550.91 m2.5%east
Hole 33380.59 m2.0%east
Hole 46420.63 m1.1%north-west
Hole 54061.09 m3.8%east
Hole 63850.91 m2.3%east
Hole 74210.94 m3.4%west
Hole 84460.83 m2.7%north-east
Hole 94860.64 m2.1%west
Hole 104180.90 m4.0%south-east
Hole 113811.12 m5.2%north-east
Hole 123720.92 m3.2%south-west
Hole 135400.63 m1.9%south
Hole 143970.96 m2.8%east
Hole 153560.85 m2.4%west
Hole 163460.99 m3.4%east
Hole 173730.54 m2.0%west
Hole 183420.50 m1.5%south
Green A4921.13 m1.5%north-east

“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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