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Golf / Odessa Country Club / March 2026

Odessa Country Club: Greens Performance Analysis

Per-green slope, contour, and pin-placement analytics across the putting surfaces.

Per-green analytics: slope-shaded surface maps, pin-placement zones, and drainage-path overlays, delivered green by green and as an eighteen-green comparison.

The 14th green, slope and contour read against the real surface. Odessa Country Club, The Links Course.

The question

The club wanted to know which pin positions still held at the green speeds they were running, and which surfaces had crept past the point where a ball will sit still. A stimpmeter and a level can only tell you so much across eighteen greens.

What we flew

We flew every putting surface in-house with drone LiDAR and photogrammetry, then built each into a high-fidelity model of the green and its collar. Fine enough to read the breaks a stimpmeter feels but can’t map.

What the model shows

Slope and contour across every surface, the pinnable ground separated from what runs too steep to cup, and the low lines water follows off the green. Read it one green at a time, or stack all eighteen and compare.

Putting-surface slope and contour analysis of the 14th green on the Links Course at Odessa Country Club.
Putting-surface slope analysis. Odessa Country Club, The Links Course, No. 14.
Flow-accumulation heat map of the 14th green on the Links Course at Odessa Country Club, showing where surface water collects and the paths it takes off the green.
Flow heat map: where water collects and channels off the surface. Odessa Country Club, The Links Course, No. 14.

The deliverable

A per-green analytics set: slope-shaded surface maps, pin-placement zones, and drainage paths. Built for the agronomy plan and for tournament-week setup.

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Get in touch: jacob@caudelltg.com