60 Minutes · Roll Board

Putter Fitting

Forty percent of the strokes in a round, and the club almost nobody has ever measured. Most putters in play were chosen because of how the head looked in a shop, at a length the factory picked at random.

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Start With the First Twelve Inches

What happens to the ball in the first foot after impact tells you almost everything. Does it hop before it rolls? Does it start left of the aim line even when the face was square? Does it skid for six inches on a fast green and then grab? Those three behaviours are caused by loft, lie and strike location respectively, and all three are measurable on the roll board in the first ten minutes.

The Six Specs

Length Set by where your eyes sit relative to the ball at your natural posture, not by your height. Most golfers are playing a putter one to two inches too long, which pushes the eyes inside the line. 01

Lie angle Checked with the sole taped so we can see whether the toe or heel is touching first. A putter sitting toe-up will push the start line left for a right-handed player before the stroke even matters. 02

Static loft Adjusted to your measured shaft lean so the ball leaves the face with the right amount of forward roll for the green speeds you actually putt on. 03

Head weight Tuned with sole weights against your tempo and the green speed. Fast Bermuda greens in season generally reward a heavier head than the same golfer needs on slower summer surfaces. 04

Hosel and toe hang Matched to the arc your stroke traces. A strong arc under a face-balanced head is the single most common mismatch we find in this bay. 05

Grip size and shape Larger is not automatically better. We test two or three profiles against face-angle consistency at impact and let the data pick rather than the trend. 06

Your Existing Putter Is the Starting Point

Plenty of golfers arrive expecting to buy a new putter and leave with the one they walked in with, bent, shortened and re-weighted. If you have a putter you genuinely like looking at, that is a real asset and we would rather fix it than replace it. Sentiment about a putter is not irrational — confidence over a four footer is worth more than a fitting chart.

Green Reading Is Not Part of This

We fit the club. We do not coach the stroke, and we will not spend your hour telling you to keep your head still. If the session reveals a technique problem that equipment cannot solve, we will say so plainly and suggest you spend the money on a lesson instead.

Common Findings

Four patterns that account for most of what we see in this bay.

Very common

Too Long

Eyes end up inside the target line, the stroke goes inside on the way back, and the face has to close through impact to compensate. Cutting an inch fixes more three-putts than a new head.

Common

Toe Hang Mismatch

A face-balanced mallet in the hands of a golfer with a pronounced arc. The face never gets a chance to square naturally and the miss is always the same direction.

Common

Too Much Loft

Ball hops off the face and skids for the first foot. Distance control on longer putts becomes guesswork because the roll never starts at the same point.

Occasional

Head Too Light

Usually a putter that was shortened by somebody who did not add weight back. The stroke becomes handsy and tempo falls apart on the greens that matter.

Bring the Putter You Trust

Even if you are shopping for a new one. Knowing what you like about the old one shortens the session considerably.

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