Rondebosch

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 Rondebosch 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 35 cm a pixel on the course, taken on 8 September 2025, a spring morning, so the film is lit as one, with the sun where the photo has it. The tablecloth on Table Mountain is ours: the cloud a summer south-easter lays over it.
• Elevation. Copernicus GLO-30, a 30 m satellite model. The course's rises and falls are real (the land falls gently toward the Black River); the slopes on a green are not shown, because a green fits inside one 30 m cell.
• Course. Every green, tee, fairway, bunker and pond, the Black River and each hole's line of play from OpenStreetMap. Shaping (greens lifted, bunkers dished, ponds levelled) is cosmetic, not surveyed.
• Card. Par and stroke index from the club's own 2026 hole videos; lengths from the club's metre card (GolfPass, SA Top 100). The club re-rated its tees in April 2026, so some lengths may have moved a few metres. The film plays the white tees, each matched to the tee box OpenStreetMap maps closest to 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.
• 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).