Hole 17

The green · from the map

Centre, front and back are measured; the caddie in the app reads the same three points. Green depth 33 m along the line of play.

The ground · from open elevation data

Tee 18 m above sea level, green 15 m, and 3 m between the highest and lowest point of the walk. Uphill is played as the distance plus the climb; downhill as the distance minus two thirds of the drop — the rule caddies used before rangefinders, and near enough on a still day. Sampled every ten metres along the line of play from Copernicus DEM GLO-30, a thirty-metre model of the whole world, accurate to about 4 m. It reads the top of what is there, so a tree-lined tee can read high. Copernicus DEM © DLR/Airbus, provided under Copernicus by the European Union and ESA. The same numbers are in the open data.

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On the tee

Distance to this green, live, from where you stand.

YŪGEN reads the same green — front, centre, back — and tells you the number as you walk. Free.