Stroke Shape on the Roll Strip
Straight-back-straight-through versus an arcing stroke, watched directly on the studio's roll strip before any head is discussed.
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Putter Fitting
Sheet 06 on the rack, and the one most golfers skip entirely. Length, lie and head balance checked against your real stroke shape on the roll strip.
The Problem
Putters Are Bought on Looks, Not on Fit
A putter is the most-used club in the bag and the least-often measured.
Across every category we fit, putters are by far the club golfers are most likely to have bought off a rack based on head shape or a pro's endorsement rather than any measurement. That is not a criticism — putting is largely a feel skill, and a putter that looks and feels good matters. But length, lie angle and head balance still interact with your actual stroke, and getting them wrong quietly works against whatever stroke you have built over years of practice.
Lie angle in particular gets overlooked. A putter set too upright or too flat for your posture shifts where the face aims at address without you noticing, since your eye compensates automatically — right up until the stroke pattern changes and the compensation stops working.
What Gets Measured
First
Second
Third
Stroke Shape First, Components Second
Length & Lie
Set to your actual address posture over the ball, checked with the same lie board logic used for irons rather than a generic standard length.
Head Balance & Grip Weight
Face-balanced versus toe-hang matched to stroke shape, with total grip weight treated as a real variable rather than whatever came standard on the head.
Putter Sheet — Sample
No. 5560
Length34.5 in
Lie at address71.0°
Head balanceSlight toe-hang
Stroke shapeMild arc
Grip weightMid-heavy, oversize
Re-check intervalEvery 2 seasons
Grip weight is logged on the sheet the same way shaft weight is logged on a driver sheet — as a chosen number, not a default.
Longest Interval on the Ledger
Two Seasons Between Checks, Not Sixty Rounds
Putters see the least mechanical wear of any club in the bag, so the standing re-check interval runs longest — every two seasons rather than counted in rounds the way irons and wedges are. What we are actually checking on that visit is not wear so much as lie drift from years of being dropped, tossed in a bag, or leaned against a cart, since a putter head takes more casual abuse than any other club precisely because it feels harmless.
A full bag audit, which runs every three seasons, always includes a putter re-check as part of the visit.
See the full re-check schedule →
Six Sheets, One Bag
Cover the Whole Set in One Visit
A full bag ledger session runs all six fitting categories in one appointment.