Slight banana
The head traces a gentle curve. Wrists hinge a little. A face that refuses to open on the way back will fight that curve until June.
Syracuse, New York · putting-arc atelier
The path is already on the maple
Arc Putt chalks the stroke living in your wrists before anyone mentions a hosel. If the toe drop disagrees with that chalk, the head is the argument — not your hands. We start on the floor. The head comes second.
The claim
Hang waits for chalk
Shops that begin with a toe number are starting in the middle of the sentence. A blade that drops forty degrees is not a personality. It is hardware that wants a banana on the floor. A face that sits quiet wants a rail. If your wrists already draw one of those shapes, buying the other is a winter of three-putts on Onondaga County poa.
We lay copper ticks on maple, photograph the head at five stations, and only then open the drawer. Charleston hang rails and Memphis mallet bays do different work. Here the floor is the instrument.
- Chalk the takeaway, the low point, and the follow-through before any SKU is named
- Match toe drop to the radius you already own, not to a magazine label
- Retest on indoor carpet in January and on June poa so the ribbon is seasonal, not theatrical
Three families we keep seeing
Banana, rail, and the lie in between
Rail path
The head never leaves a painted line. A toe that wants to drop will invent rotation you did not ask for. Quiet faces belong here.
Toe to the floor
Once the chalk is honest, hang is just the number that agrees. Length and grip can move the radius; they do not replace the tape.
216 S Salina, Suite 3
A downtown floor, not a warehouse carpet
The maple was milled for this room in 2014. Lake-effect winters keep the indoor lane honest. June brings poa from the county nines we actually play. We do not pretend a roll-out mat in a strip mall is either of those.
ICopper tick at address
IITakeaway station, twelve inches
IIILow point on the maple
IVRelease past the tick
“They made me putt on chalk before they let me touch a mallet. The banana was already there. The drawer just finally agreed.”
Floor voices
What the maple keeps telling us
Most walk-ins arrive with a head they bought because a friend liked the sightline. We tape first. If the friend’s banana is not yours, the sightline is furniture. More letters live on Floor Voices.