Sessions / Putters
Length and Lie Before Head Shape
Where your eyes sit and how your forearms hang decide the geometry. Everything people usually shop for comes afterwards. Sixty minutes, $135.
Nobody Buys a Putter That Fits Them
Putters are bought on looks and feel, which is entirely understandable and completely disconnected from whether the club is the right length. The standard thirty-four inches on a rack is a manufacturing convention, not a fitting decision, and a great many golfers are standing over a putter built for somebody several inches taller than they are.
Too long forces the eyes inside the ball and the hands away from the body, which opens the face through impact and makes the stroke arc wider than it should be. Compensations follow, and they are the sort a golfer will spend years working on without ever suspecting the club.
So the session opens with a measurement: where your eyes actually sit relative to the ball at a comfortable posture, and where your forearms want to hang. Length and lie fall out of those two readings, and only then do we look at heads.
- Bay time60 minutes
- Fee$135
- Putts recorded~40
- Eye line measuredYes
- Arc tracedYes
- Length & lie changeIncluded
What We Take Down
Eye Line
Directly over, slightly inside, or well inside the ball. Each produces a different perception of the target line, and the fix is length rather than a conscious adjustment.
Forearm Hang
The angle your arms naturally take when relaxed sets the lie angle. Forcing a lie that fights it produces a face that is closed or open before the stroke even starts.
Stroke Arc
Traced across forty putts. Strongly arced strokes want toe hang; straighter strokes want face balance. Fitting the head to the arc rather than the reverse is the entire point.
Loft at Impact
Delivered loft decides how quickly the ball stops skidding and starts rolling. Forward press and ball position move it more than the number stamped on the putter does.
Head Weight
Heavier heads suit slower greens and longer strokes; lighter heads reward touch on quick surfaces. We ask which greens you putt on most before recommending either.
Grip Size
Larger grips quieten the hands, which helps some golfers and removes feel from others. It is tested rather than assumed, and it is the cheapest change on this list.
Fitted for the Greens You Putt On
A putter specified for fast bentgrass behaves differently on the slower bermuda surfaces common around here in summer. Head weight and shaft length both shift with green speed, and a golfer who plays two very different courses regularly is worth fitting toward the one they play most.
Tell us where you putt. It changes the recommendation more than any preference about head shape does.
- Slow summer bermuda360–380 g
- Medium municipal greens340–360 g
- Quick bentgrass320–345 g
- Mixed, plays bothFit to the slower
Most Putter Sessions End With the Same Putter
Putters are the club golfers are most attached to and, conveniently, the club where the fix is most often an adjustment rather than a replacement. Shortening a shaft, bending a lie two degrees and changing a grip will transform how a putter sits without touching the head you have grown fond of.
We will always price that route first. If the head genuinely does not suit your arc we will say so, but the number of putter sessions that end at the bench rather than the rack is well over half.
Bring the Putter You Love
There is a good chance it stays in the bag and simply gets shorter.