Eye Position And Length
Resolved before any head is considered. A putter that is the wrong length pulls the eyes off the line before the stroke even starts, and no head balance fixes that.
Most Putter Complaints Are Not About The Head
Golfers arrive convinced they need a mallet, or a face-balanced head, or whatever a magazine told them last spring. Length and loft at impact resolve more complaints on this floor than any head swap, and we check both before a single putter comes off the rack.
- $105, about 75 minutes
- Rolled at your home green speed
- Stroke arc traced, not guessed
- With Deirdre Falk
The Ball Hops Before It Rolls, And Nobody Checks Why
A putt that skids and hops before it settles into a roll is almost always a dynamic loft problem — the number nobody checks, because it lives at the moment of impact and not on a spec sheet. We measure it directly rather than assuming it from the loft stamped on the head.
Length and eye position come first because everything downstream depends on where your eyes actually sit over the ball. Get that wrong and no amount of head-balance matching will fix the stroke it produces. Get it right and some golfers stop needing anything else.
In This Order, Because Each One Changes The Next
Dynamic Loft At Impact
Measured, not assumed. This is the address picture equivalent for a putter, and it explains most of the complaints about a ball that hops on the first two feet instead of rolling.
Stroke Arc And Head Balance
Traced against your actual arc rather than sorted by a face-balanced-versus-toe-hang chart. Two golfers with identical charts can need opposite heads once the real arc is on the screen.
Roughly 75 Minutes, On A Rolled Surface
- Eye position and length resolved on your current putter15 min
- Dynamic loft measured at impact15 min
- Stroke arc traced across a run of putts15 min
- Head balance matched, counterweight tested if useful15 min
- Spec card written, components costed15 min
The putting surface is stimped weekly and adjusted for the month, so the roll you test on is close to what your home greens are actually doing right now.
Sixty Dollars Instead Of A New Mallet
A Mt. Lebanon client came in convinced she needed a mallet. What she needed was three quarters of an inch off the putter she had owned since 2014 and two degrees taken out of the loft. The ball stopped hopping on short putts and the total cost was under sixty dollars, with the existing head kept.
More records from the season file →Bring The Putter You Already Trust, Even If You Doubt It
Most sittings start on the putter already in the bag. If the honest answer is an adjustment rather than a replacement, that is the answer you get, and it is usually the cheaper one.