Every figure quoted here came off our own gauges during paid sessions in these two bays. Nothing is republished from a manufacturer's test, and nothing is sponsored.
Every carry figure we hand out exists twice: once as the monitor reported it and once as it behaves in Albuquerque air. Here is what the correction is, why we log pressure at both ends of a session, and how large the error gets when nobody bothers.
From early July the ground here stops behaving like the ground it was in May. A sole that was perfect on baked kikuyu digs on a wet morning, and the players who suffer most are the ones carrying the least resistance.
Spray paint on a sole and fifteen swings on live grass tell you more about the sole shape you need than any chart on the back of a box. What the four common print patterns look like and what each one asks for.
Spin on a damp face does not fade gradually. It holds, then falls off a shelf, and where that shelf sits depends almost entirely on how worn the face already was. Paired dry and wet readings from four seasons of scoring sessions.
Local bunker fill is crushed rock, not beach sand. It takes the crest off a wedge face considerably faster than the soft silica that national replacement advice assumes, and our crest grades show how much faster.
Twice a year the surface under the ball changes species and nobody warns you. What the rye-to-kikuyu handover does to a leading edge, why it always feels like a swing fault, and how long it lasts.
A note goes up when there are enough readings behind it to survive being argued with. That usually means several seasons of the same measurement taken the same way, which is why six pieces cover eighteen months rather than six weeks.
Client data is pooled and stripped of names. A Contact Card belongs to the player who paid for the session and is never shown to anybody else, including in aggregate form where the sample is small enough to identify somebody. Where a specific session is described, we asked first.
When a sample is thin we say how thin. When a finding is a hunch rather than a measurement we say that too, and we do not dress it up in a number.
Scoring clubs, sole prints, local sand and a crest grade on every wedge you own.