Read
First Roll
Cold board, first three inches, a written note. Fifty minutes.
Tide work offered
Start first. Pretty later.
Pick the failure you already have: hop, sideways start, or a skid hallway. If you cannot pick, start with a first-roll read.
Loft
Loft File
Take loft down until frost boards stop hopping.
Bulge
Bulge Read
Lamp, straightedge, cold-board start.
Skid
Skid Window
Shorten the hallway or name the putter a summer citizen.
Thaw
April Recheck
Winter start on thaw boards. Existing tickets.
We will not sell a mallet to hide a hop
Hardware is a later conversation. The hop is the first one.
We will not teach a stroke
Read lesson or roll. If the start is honest and the ball still wanders, that is a teacher.