Mount Royal

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 Malmesbury Golf Club or Mount Royal Golf & Country Estate; the logo and visitor details are theirs, from their websites.

• Imagery. Esri World Imagery (Esri, Vantor), about 50 cm a pixel on the course, taken on 2 January 2026 while the last holes were still being finished, so some surrounds may look barer than they are now. The photo was taken in the morning, so the film is lit as an early-morning round with the sun where the photo has it.
• Elevation. Copernicus GLO-30, a 30 m satellite model. The course's rises and falls are real (the eighteenth climbs more than 20 m to the clubhouse); the slopes on a green are not shown, because a green fits inside one 30 m cell.
• Course. Greens, tees, bunkers, the clubhouse dam and each hole's line of play from OpenStreetMap; the fairways and the first tee drawn from the imagery. Shaping (greens lifted, bunkers dished) is cosmetic, not surveyed.
• Card. The official scorecard isn't published yet. Pars from the designer's hole plans (Golf Data) and Hole19's par-73 card, stroke index from Hole19, and lengths measured on the imagery from the tee we fly, along the line of play. From the designer's back tees the course is 6 729 m.
• 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.
• Trees and homes. Trees found in the imagery (kinds and heights are a guess); buildings from Overture Maps. Narration voiced with ElevenLabs, 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).