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Bay Sessions / Putters

A Putter You Are Strangling Will Never Start the Ball Straight

Putter fittings elsewhere tend to begin with head shape. Ours begins with what your hands are doing to the grip, because that is what is moving the face during the two feet that matter.

Hands First, Again

Cross-Section, Not Just Thickness

Putter grips vary in a way full-swing grips do not: they have a shape as well as a size. A pistol profile, a flat front, a squared-off oversize, a fully round section — each one gives the hands a different amount of positional information, and players respond to that very differently.

A squarer cross-section gives you a reference edge and tends to tighten start line, which is why it suits players who fight a rotating face. A round section frees the hands up and works well for players with a strong arc who feel constrained by a flat front. Neither is correct in the abstract; Jenna works through the wall until one of them makes your start line settle down.

Pressure comes next. We record how hard you hold it, and a great many missed short putts trace back to a player squeezing a grip that is too small for their hands, exactly as happens in the full swing.

Roll Strip
Start line
Launch angle
Skid distance
Speed control

Measured across twenty putts at eight feet, before and after each change, so you can see what actually moved.

Then the Rest

Four Specs After the Grip Is Settled

Length, measured to your posture

The stock thirty-five inch putter fits very few adults properly. Too long forces the hands in toward the body and the eyes inside the line; too short does the reverse. We set length to where your eyes sit over the ball naturally, without you having to hold a position.

Lie, so the sole actually sits flat

A putter with the toe in the air at address will push the ball, consistently, no matter how good the stroke is. It is a five-minute fix on the bench and it is out of tolerance on a large share of putters that come in here.

Loft against your shaft lean

Effective loft at impact should get the ball rolling quickly rather than hopping. A player with forward press needs more static loft; one who hangs back needs less. Skid distance on the roll strip tells us which you are within a few putts.

Head style and balance, last

Blade, mid-mallet or high-MOI mallet, and how much toe hang suits the arc of your stroke. This genuinely matters, and it also matters much less than the four specs above — which is why it comes at the end rather than the beginning.

On counterbalancing. Adding weight under the grip changes how the stroke feels far more than most players expect. We keep counterweights in a range of masses so you can test the idea before committing to a build.
Realistic Expectations

What a Putter Fitting Can and Cannot Do

What it can do

Tighten your start line, get the ball rolling sooner, and remove the small compensations you are making for a putter that does not sit correctly. Those are real, measurable, and they show up mostly inside ten feet.

What it cannot do

Fix speed control on greens you have not read, or replace practice. Distance control is largely a feel skill and no specification will hand it to you. We will not pretend otherwise.

Bring the Putter You Have Been Doubting

A large share of putter sessions end with the same head, a different grip, and half an inch off the shaft.

Rather talk it through than fill in a form? The bench phone rings straight to whoever is fitting that day.

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