Hermanus

How this was made

A 3D flyover by BeforeTheRun, built from public data with its own golf engine. It isn't made or endorsed by Hermanus Golf Club; the logo, card and visitor details are the club's own, from its website and booking policy.

• Imagery. Esri World Imagery (Esri, Vantor), about 34 cm a pixel on the course, taken on 24 April 2025 near midday, when trees cast almost no shadow; the film lights its own spring morning, the sun rising out of the east over the bay.
• Elevation. Copernicus GLO-30, a 30 m satellite model. The course's rises and falls and the mountains behind it are real; the slopes on a green are not shown, because a green fits inside one 30 m cell.
• Course. OpenStreetMap maps the course's outline, three greens and a few bunkers. Every hole's line, tee and the other greens were traced by hand on the photo, from the club's own course plan and hole notes; fairways and bunkers are read from the photo, with the ponds it can't tell from shade drawn by eye. Shaping (greens lifted, bunkers dished, ponds levelled) is cosmetic, not surveyed.
• Card. Par, stroke index and lengths from the club's East Course scorecard (holes 1 to 18 of its 27). The film plays the yellow tees; a few tee boxes are placed by eye, so some holes fly a little longer or shorter than the card.
• Shots. Planned the way a good club golfer manages the course: each club's real spread, mishits, trees in the way and the cost of sand and water, worked out over the whole hole.
• The bay. The whales are ours: a southern right whale built from photographs and filmed from the water. From about June to November they really do come into Walker Bay, often close under the cliffs. The swell, its foam and the fluke print are simulated.
• Trees, fynbos and homes. Trees and fynbos found in the imagery (kinds and heights are a guess); buildings from Overture Maps. Narration by Christél Kloppers' voice from the ElevenLabs library, music by Google Lyria, live wind from Open-Meteo.
• Visits. Counted anonymously (country, device, where you came from, how far you got): no cookies, no personal data.

Copernicus GLO-30: © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA. Course features: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Buildings: Overture Maps Foundation, including © OpenStreetMap contributors, Google Open Buildings and Microsoft Building Footprints. Type: Fraunces (SIL Open Font License).