The Hills

Otago · 30 greens mapped

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A putting green at The Hills, 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

30 greens at The Hills have been mapped from the national LiDAR survey — 16,501 m² of putting surface altogether, with a median green of 493 m². The national median is 397 m², so these run 24% larger than average.

Every green

GreenSizeFallAvg gradeRuns off to the
Hole 14940.78 m1.2%north-west
Hole 117342.04 m2.1%north-west
Hole 24641.18 m2.5%north-east
Hole 24390.81 m2.8%south-west
Hole 36090.92 m2.1%south
Hole 34910.38 m0.3%north
Hole 47251.03 m3.1%south-east
Hole 53061.08 m1.9%north-east
Hole 63870.78 m3.1%south-west
Hole 75900.92 m2.5%south
Hole 86210.81 m1.0%north-west
Hole 97122.00 m4.3%north
Hole 104311.26 m4.0%north-east
Hole 116392.25 m5.5%south-east
Hole 124890.61 m1.1%north
Hole 134851.19 m2.7%west
Hole 144410.92 m1.9%north
Hole 155762.29 m4.9%south
Hole 166411.31 m1.0%north
Hole 177801.36 m0.7%east
Hole 185111.46 m5.5%south-east
Green A5722.32 m6.1%north-east
Green B4521.00 m4.7%south-west
Green C3861.14 m3.8%north
Green D4891.70 m3.1%south-west
Green E5631.59 m5.0%south
Green F4471.31 m4.4%south
Green G5793.08 m6.4%east
Green H3531.66 m6.8%south-west
Green I960.64 m2.4%north

“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 (Queenstown, 2021), 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 2021. More about how this is made.

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