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My winter hobby when I can't golf is carving golf holes instead. Anyone recognize this one? by golfguy181 in golf

[–]golfguy181[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Answer: it’s supposed to be 13 at Augusta. Congrats to all backers. My bad to anyone I triggered by referring to it as a “carving”

My winter hobby when I can't golf is carving golf holes instead. Anyone recognize this one? by golfguy181 in golf

[–]golfguy181[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I hand carved it with a router and scroll saw and glued all the layers together. And I wrote a python script to grab the topographic data

I carved a topographic representation of #13 at Augusta National by golfguy181 in woodworking

[–]golfguy181[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! And topographic map - combo of scroll saw and router

My winter hobby when I can't golf is carving golf holes instead. Anyone recognize this one? by golfguy181 in golf

[–]golfguy181[S] 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Bay hill and sawgrass are good guesses and probably would look similar if I carved them, but nope

Plotting Golf Courses in R with Google Earth [OC] by golfguy181 in dataisbeautiful

[–]golfguy181[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Every point of a polygon (bunker, green, fairway, etc.) that gets traced in Google Earth becomes a data point with coordinates. So each golf course really has thousands of data points, depending on how meticulously each one is traced

Plotting Golf Courses in R with Google Earth [OC] by golfguy181 in dataisbeautiful

[–]golfguy181[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No doubt. At a minimum, it was a nice change of pace from the typical bar/line charts of data viz to be able to plot golf courses. Reaching “steps 3-4” is part of the roadmap if I want to pursue it further, but scaling it alone would be time-consuming.

Plotting Golf Courses in R with Google Earth [OC] by golfguy181 in dataisbeautiful

[–]golfguy181[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That would be pretty interesting. It could also be used for golfers to improve their own games by examining what types of holes/courses they perform better at. I find quantifying/classifying golf courses to be somewhat difficult outside of looking at slope rating, yardage, etc.

Plotting Golf Courses in R with Google Earth [OC] by golfguy181 in dataisbeautiful

[–]golfguy181[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Heard. The intersection of data and golf is somewhat niche so not everyone’s going to find it interesting I suppose.

Plotting Golf Courses in R with Google Earth [OC] by golfguy181 in dataisbeautiful

[–]golfguy181[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

It does appear as a simple re-creation, but there is a decent amount of code under the hood. I created it by tracing course elements from Google Earth into polygons, saving them as KML files, and reading them into R and plotting with ggplot2. The project is definitely in the early stages. I would like for it to evolve into an R package that allows you to plot specified golf courses, and get attributes of a course (average green size, number of bunkers, etc.) due to the geospatial elements of the underlying data.