Notes We Got Tired of Writing Out by Hand
Every one of these started as the same explanation given in the bay for the fourth time in a week. Nothing here is a product announcement and nothing here is trying to sell you a session.
Written by whoever runs the relevant session. If a note contradicts something a fitter told you in person, the fitter is probably right and we would like to hear about it.
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On the course · 11 March 2026
The Two-Column Yardage Book
How to write a yardage book that survives a drive up to the lake, without carrying two of them or doing arithmetic on the tee.
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Ball flight · 15 January 2026
Descent Angle on High-Desert Greens
On ground this firm, the angle a ball arrives at decides whether it stops. Spin rate gets the attention and does less of the work.
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Altitude · 2 October 2025
Thin Air at Lake Tahoe
The drive from the studio to a lake tee box gains about seventeen hundred feet. What that does to a bag already fitted for the valley.
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Carry vs total · 21 August 2025
Total Distance Is a Borrowed Number
Firm fairways lend you yards in July and take them back in April. Carry is the only figure on the sheet that stays yours all season.
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Gapping · 9 June 2025
Fit the Spread, Not the Average
Two golfers with an identical average seven-iron can need completely different sets. The width of the pattern decides it, not the middle of it.
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Altitude · 18 April 2025
Forty-Five Hundred Feet of Difference
Why the elevation correction is a percentage rather than a fixed number of yards, and what applying it wrongly does to the top of a bag.
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Something Here You Disagree With?
Genuinely, tell us. Two of these notes were rewritten after a customer argued with them and turned out to be right.