Pearl Valley

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 Pearl Valley; the logo and booking details are the club's own, from its website.

• Imagery. Esri World Imagery (Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics), about 50 cm a pixel on the course. 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 rises about 20 m from west to east, and that is real. The colours on a green show the broad tilt of the ground under it, not putting breaks: a whole green fits inside one 30 m cell, and breaks need a drone or LiDAR survey.
• Routing. Tees and greens placed by hand from the imagery and checked against the club's course guide. Some back tees are hidden by trees, so holes 2, 8, 12 and 13 play 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.
• Shaping. Greens, bunkers and lakes are found in the imagery and shaped into the ground (greens lifted, bunkers dished, lakes levelled). That's cosmetic, not surveyed. Trees come from the imagery (kinds and heights are a guess), houses from Overture Maps.
• Card and words. Pars, lengths and hole names from Pearl Valley's course layout page, stroke index from GolfPass. 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. Buildings: Overture Maps Foundation, including © OpenStreetMap contributors, Google Open Buildings and Microsoft Building Footprints. Type: Fraunces (SIL Open Font License).