Short window
Putter start is still a plane, just shorter
A putter has a face wall and a path wall. The ball leaves that tiny room. Paint on a ruler is not the room. Ellis draws the short D-plane because golfers keep blaming “the line” when the walls were never measured.
What “start” means on this chalkboard
Start is the first yard of the ball’s life, owned mostly by the face wall. Curve after that is a different conversation — grass grain, speed, a stroke that imparts tilt. We separate those so you stop buying a mallet to fix a face wall that never pointed at the hole.
Hay Street greens are not our exam. We are a brick storefront. The exam is whether the tiny room is repeatable on our plate. If you want grain, go play. If you want walls, come here.
Furniture, after the walls
- Length as a timing stick for the face wall
- Lie as a tilt of that wall
- Loft as launch off a short plane
- Toe hang as a path-wall preference, not a religion
Do not hide a putter inside a driver sketch
Book the short pane. Cole will not steal ten minutes from a driver window to “glance at the putter.” The tiny room deserves its own chalk. Gift windows can be this pane if the recipient’s liar is on the green.