Russley Golf Club

Canterbury · 20 greens mapped

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A putting green at Russley 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

20 greens at Russley have been mapped from the national LiDAR survey — 12,955 m² of putting surface altogether, with a median green of 668 m². That puts them in the largest tenth of greens in the country — 68% above the national median of 397 m².

Every green

GreenSizeFallAvg gradeRuns off to the
Green A6470.88 m2.0%east
Green B5290.42 m1.2%south
Green C6270.92 m2.8%north-east
Green D7141.12 m2.1%south-east
Green E6660.64 m1.7%north
Green F6750.93 m2.4%south-east
Green G6100.77 m2.8%south-west
Green H8231.02 m1.9%south
Green I6711.04 m2.0%west
Green J7060.67 m0.1%south-east
Green K1840.19 m0.2%south
Green L6420.84 m2.1%north-east
Green M10672.15 m5.0%north-east
Green N7610.84 m2.2%north
Green O6701.21 m3.0%north-east
Green P7061.19 m2.5%north-east
Green Q3780.48 m1.2%south-east
Green R4760.60 m1.7%north-east
Green S4180.86 m2.4%south
Green T9861.59 m3.7%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 (Christchurch, 2024-2025), 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 2025. More about how this is made.

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