Omakau Golf Club

Otago · 9 greens mapped

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A putting green at Omakau 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

9 greens at Omakau have been mapped from the national LiDAR survey — 3,387 m² of putting surface altogether, with a median green of 363 m². The national median is 397 m², so these run 9% smaller than average.

Every green

GreenSizeFallAvg gradeRuns off to the
Hole 13640.43 m2.1%west
Hole 25051.29 m5.0%north-east
Hole 35130.78 m3.0%north
Hole 43390.20 m0.7%south-west
Hole 52890.78 m3.7%east
Hole 64080.47 m1.7%west
Hole 73031.10 m4.3%north
Hole 83631.66 m5.7%north-west
Hole 93050.14 m0.5%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 (Central Otago, 2022-2023), 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.

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