Koura Bay Golf Resort

Canterbury · 10 greens mapped

Read these greens →
A putting green at Koura Bay Golf Resort, 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

10 greens at Koura Bay Golf Resort have been mapped from the national LiDAR survey — 5,540 m² of putting surface altogether, with a median green of 621 m². That puts them in the largest tenth of greens in the country — 56% above the national median of 397 m².

Every green

GreenSizeFallAvg gradeRuns off to the
Green A3580.98 m4.6%south
Green B6221.73 m5.7%south-east
Green C6881.64 m4.5%east
Green D1510.89 m8.2%south-east
Green E6232.00 m4.6%south-east
Green F5021.49 m3.8%east
Green G6661.86 m5.4%east
Green H7401.80 m4.1%south-east
Green I5691.91 m5.3%east
Green J6211.26 m4.1%south

“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 (Kaikoura And Waimakariri, 2022), 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 2022. More about how this is made.

Other courses in Canterbury