Takaka Golf Club

Nelson · 10 greens mapped

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A putting green at Takaka 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

10 greens at Takaka have been mapped from the national LiDAR survey — 2,496 m² of putting surface altogether, with a median green of 258 m². The national median is 397 m², so these run 35% smaller than average.

Every green

GreenSizeFallAvg gradeRuns off to the
Hole 12070.93 m3.1%north-west
Hole 22790.67 m2.5%north-west
Hole 32490.96 m4.5%south
Hole 42140.75 m0.9%south-west
Hole 52600.84 m3.4%south-east
Hole 62850.60 m1.9%north
Hole 72560.72 m1.4%south
Hole 83011.26 m4.1%west
Hole 92781.00 m3.9%north-east
Green A1700.14 m0.7%south-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 (Abel Tasman And Golden Bay, 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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