Whakatāne Golf Club

Bay of Plenty · 20 greens mapped

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A putting green at Whakatāne 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 Whakatāne have been mapped from the national LiDAR survey — 8,895 m² of putting surface altogether, with a median green of 434 m². The national median is 397 m², so these run 9% larger than average.

Every green

GreenSizeFallAvg gradeRuns off to the
Hole 14390.43 m1.8%south-east
Hole 24250.75 m1.6%south
Hole 34700.67 m2.2%south-east
Hole 45100.85 m1.6%west
Hole 54910.84 m1.4%south-west
Hole 65590.85 m2.5%east
Hole 74270.78 m2.5%south-east
Hole 84401.19 m3.9%north
Hole 94270.41 m0.9%south-west
Hole 104271.03 m2.8%south-west
Hole 113680.79 m2.0%south
Hole 125570.85 m2.4%east
Hole 134291.04 m3.1%south
Hole 145540.84 m2.0%east
Hole 154520.83 m3.0%south-west
Hole 164020.44 m0.7%north-west
Hole 175120.51 m1.4%north-west
Hole 183981.16 m4.0%north
Green A3560.44 m1.5%south
Green B2540.73 m3.8%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 (Bay Of Plenty, 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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