Notes From the Bench, Not From a Catalogue
Everything below started as a question somebody asked in the bay that we could not answer in one sentence. No product launches, no sponsored anything.
Six Entries on Putter Geometry and Face Behaviour
We have spent most of this year on the putter, because it is the part of the bag where the marketing vocabulary sits furthest from anything measurable. Every claim below can be checked with a protractor, a strip of tape, or a stopwatch and some patience.
Aim Error and Face Error Leave the Same Miss
Two golfers push the same putt by the same amount for opposite reasons. Separating the two takes about four minutes and changes what you should be working on.
July 2026 · Elena Sandoval Face AngleTenths of a Degree Decide the Four-Footer
The arithmetic behind short putts, written out properly, and why the margin is smaller than almost every golfer assumes it is.
June 2026 · Marisol Reyes Putter GeometryHang Angle in Degrees, Not Labels
Why "half toe hang" describes almost nothing useful, and what a protractor reading gives you instead when you are trying to match a head to a stroke.
May 2026 · Marisol Reyes Putter LieSole Flat Is Not the Same as Lie Correct
A putter can rest flat on the shop floor and still sit on its toe when you actually stroke a putt. Sole tape settles the argument in ten strokes.
April 2026 · Hollis Wren Stroke ArcReading Your Stroke Arc From Two Strips of Tape
You do not need a camera rig to know how curved your stroke is. You need a straight edge, two marks, and a willingness to accept the answer.
March 2026 · Marisol Reyes Face RotationClosure Rate Through the Last Foot Before Contact
Rotation measured over the whole stroke hides the part that matters. The final foot is where the face decides where your ball is going.
February 2026 · Elena SandovalWhat We Will and Will Not Publish Here
We do not review equipment. There are people who do it well and we are not among them — a shop that fits clubs cannot write a neutral review of a club it stocks, and pretending otherwise insults everyone involved.
What we will publish is method. How a measurement is taken, what it can and cannot tell you, and where our own procedure has limits. Where a number here came out of a real session, it is anonymised but not adjusted. Where something is an estimate, it says so in the sentence.
If you disagree with something written here, bring it up in the bay. Several of these entries exist because a golfer argued with us and turned out to be partly right.
Send Us a CorrectionOn the Bench Right Now
- Counterweight mass against green speed across a Tucson calendar year
- What grip diameter actually does to face rotation, measured rather than asserted
- Whether putter shaft material changes anything you can detect
- Reading start-line spread on a strip versus on a real green
These get written when the data is finished, which is a slower schedule than a content calendar would like.
Reading Is Cheaper Than Guessing. Measuring Is Better Than Both.
Every method described in the journal is one we run in the bay. Book a session and watch it happen to your own clubs.