The Dunes Golf Course

Waikato · 11 greens mapped

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A putting green at The Dunes Golf Course, 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

11 greens at The Dunes have been mapped from the national LiDAR survey — 4,502 m² of putting surface altogether, with a median green of 428 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 84380.47 m1.1%south-east
Hole 93670.67 m3.1%south
Hole 104510.63 m1.4%east
Hole 115802.20 m4.9%south-west
Hole 123090.64 m3.0%north-west
Hole 132170.55 m1.9%north-east
Hole 144280.54 m1.4%north-west
Hole 153530.80 m2.5%south-east
Hole 163900.78 m2.5%north
Hole 174850.49 m1.4%west
Hole 184850.51 m1.1%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 (Waikato, 2024), 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 2024. More about how this is made.

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